Teaching methodologies and uses of competitive intelligence and competitive technical intelligence in countries where the culture and the technological level are very different from the western world cannot be implemented without a cultural understanding of the tacit local knowledge and cultural behavior of people. As an example of research-action, we have chosen two Indonesian regions: Sulawes...

Leaders have an essential role in facilitating strategic change within organizations. As resistance to change is primarily an emotional reaction to change, the study of emotions and the emotional intelligence of the leader is of growing interest in modern organizations. From a strategic perspective, the process of how the emotional intelligence of a leader contributes to competitive advantage f...

In an unstable environment, enterprises are gradually realizing that there should be major changes in how they deploy their strategic resources to compete in the knowledge economy. In this paper, the role of competitive intelligence in South African manufacturing enterprises is examined. The difference between the industrial and the knowledge economy and the competitive intelligence function in...

Managers routinely seek to understand firm performance relative to the competitors. Recently competitive intelligence (CI) has emerged as an important area within business intelligence (BI) where the emphasis is on understanding and measuring a firm's external competitive environment. A requirement of such systems is the availability of the rich data about a firm's competitors, which is typical...

Abstract Economists have often viewed the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) as a standard process innovation where we expect that efficiency will drive in competitive markets. This paper models AI based on recent advances machine learning allow firms to engage better prediction. Focusing prediction demand, it is demonstrated complement variable inputs whose levels are altered directly by...