This research was conducted on batik craftsmen in East Java, Indonesia. Competitive advantage for is an effort to upscale by aligning their positions with corporate ones. Strategies that can be taken as achieve competitive are effectuation strategies and niche marketing, where these explore exploit internal external resources. Batik craftsmen, limitations, must smart dealing business order surv...

S is concerned with sustained interfirm profitability differences. Observations of such sustained differences are often attributed to unobserved systematic a priori differences in firm characteristics. This paper shows that sustained interfirm profitability differences may be very likely even if there are no a priori differences among firms. As a result of the phenomenon of long leads in random...

Big Data Analytics is getting a great deal of attention in the business and government communities. If it lives up to its name, visual analytics will be a prime path by which visualization competes successfully in this arena. This paper discusses some fundamental work we have done in this area through integration of interactive visualization and automated analysis methods and the applications t...

Technology has been continuously improving, causing high business pressures that affect organizations’ current and future competitiveness. Gaining competitive advantage is critical for organizations. Among the various resources which organizations deploy to succeed, information is identified as a crucial resource. The success of organizations depends on the decisions made and the excellence of ...