The question of the sustainability of IT-dependent com considerably less attention, and much of that attention ha assumption usually underlying this pessimistic view is that sustainable competitive advantage because competitors ca replicate virtually any of its applications. We suggest inst quest for sustainable competitive advantage risks oversimp potential strategic contributions of advanced ...

While there are separate streams of established research on lean production, agile organization, and sustainable supply chain, the idea is to address the intersection of these three strategic initiatives in order to find synergies and competitive advantage for companies. The goal of the mission is to explore the link between supply chain and sustainable development with the insights of two main...

Successful implementation of green supply chain management (GSCM) can create a sustainable competitive advantage. A firm’s specific internal and relational resources can be considered as drivers of sustainable competitive advantages in GSCM. To extend the scope of the limited research on the identification and prioritization of resource-related drivers having a strong influence on a firm’s sust...

Society today has great expectations on small firms’ contribution to society as a whole. To be able to contribute small firms have to be competitive. Competitive advantage based on competence is not as easily copied by competitors, and, hence, more sustainable. Even though competence can be complicated to imitate, continual environmental changes mean that competence is not static and will not p...

innovation and sustainable development have been considered fundamental elements in the competitive positioning of companies. the synergies between both concepts, known as eco-innovation, must be considered when designing company policies. the aim of this paper is to analyse which moderating factors determine how innovative companies perform when implementing a sustainable proactive approach...

Without sustainable competitive advantage firms have limited economic reasons to exist and will decline. Competitive advantage concerns the factors which provide competitive strength. This paper is based upon the resource-based view which considers firm resources to be heterogeneous and which believes that firms only have a small bundle of core resources irrespective of their overall performanc...

Strategic management is defined as the system of action programs which form sustainable competitive advantages for a corporation, its divisions and its business units in a strategic planning period. We have developed a system called Woodstrat to serve as a support system for these action program activities on both the corporate, the divisional and the business unit levels. The system is modular...

The aim of the article is to analyze why the sustainable competitive advantage may disappear for many business organizations, and how to maintain the advantages in order to survive in the market. The paper proposes an evolution path of strategic literature, from the classical Porter’s strategic theory to business inertia, strategic resilience, then Organizational transformation, finally to the ...

This commentary examines how specific sustainable development goals (SDGs) are affected by antimicrobial resistance and suggests how the issue can be better integrated into international policy processes. Moving beyond the importance of effective antibiotics for the treatment of acute infections and health care generally, we discuss how antimicrobial resistance also impacts on environmental, so...

31 Theory on plant succession predicts a temporal increase in the complexity of spatial 32 community structure and of competitive interactions: initially random occurrences of early 33 colonising species shift towards spatially and competitively structured plant associations in 34 late successional stages. Here we use long-term data on early plant succession in a German 35 post mining area to d...