The European Union is pursuing a competitive and sustainable development model that combines insights from environmental as well as economic analysis. The rhetoric of this model is attractive: European development should be ‘sustainable’ both in terms of its use of labour and environmental resources, and in terms of the location of economic activity. European policy, therefore, should encourage...

This article suggests that the context and process of resource selection have an important influence on firm heterogeneity and sustainable competitive advantage. It is argued that a firm’s sustainable advantage depends on its ability to manage the institutional context of its resource decisions. A firm’s institutional context includes its internal culture as well as broader influences from the ...

successful organizations in the 21st century, have understood the importance of human resources as an important resource to achieve sustainable competitive advantage and stability in international markets. accordingly, the present article, after knowing the individual capabilities of human resources, followed by analysis of human resources and their individual capabilities's role to create...

In an increasingly competitive market, banks are constantly searching for sustainable competitive advantage to help them maintain their edge against competition. Over the years, banks have tried various drivers for competitive advantage, none of which were sufficient barriers for competitors. Understanding the behavior of their customers and using this knowledge to drive the interaction with cu...

We develop a dynamic model of sustainable competitive advantage in hypercompetitive environments. We argue that competitive advantages of firms can be sustainable even if resource-based advantages of firms can be quickly replicated by rivals or when the barriers to entry are almost non-existent. This is accomplished through intensive entrepreneurial activity of firms during the equilibrating te...

Sustainable development is contacted with Sustainable Innovation. Innovative culture in enterprise is the core of survival and development, innovative prosecution and innovative management, the fundamentality of maintaining sustainable innovation, the base of developing innovative competitive power. Innovative culture in enterprise helps enterprises achieve sustainable development through influ...

This paper identifies the Quality Function Deployment (QFD) as a tool in eco-design that can be used to identify customer desires, needs and requirements and to evaluate and characterise them into different categories, thereby building up an overall picture of customer value. It further argues that QFD can be more effective to the extent that it incorporates green engineering objectives, becaus...