In today’s economics, the fact that information is a major factor of production and of increasing importance as a source of competitive advantage is a generally accepted truism. The trend towards global markets has strongly impacted the competitive situation of many enterprises. Never has the economic environment been subject to so many drastic and rapid changes. This put new weight factors on ...

The authors report on the growing importance of competitive intelligence as a management practice in the majority of leading companies. Reviewing the history and definition of competitive intelligence, they then go on to distinguish types of competitive intelligence, to analyse the competitive intelligence process, and identify five categories of attitudes towards competitive intelligence. The ...

Effective and efficient e-business strategy development is crucial to achieve a competitive advantage in the electronic marketplace. However, e-business strategy evaluation constitutes complex and dynamic challenges for business management. This paper offers assistance for the evaluation process by applying a computer simulation that uses an econometric model delivered through a decision making...

Aim: This study intended to analyse the Zanzibar seaweed industry’s (ZSI) profitability potential by adopting Porter’s five forces industry analysis framework. The objective was identify factors in its structure contributing ongoing primary challenge of low returns.
 Methodology: conducted on island United Republic Tanzania. A case design approach adopted. study’s sample consisted farmers,...

The article is devoted to the problem of theoretical understanding development modern international business. discusses terminological features description process transnationalization, in particular, compares content concepts "transnational corporation", "multinational corporation" and enterprise". distinctive transnational corporations are highlighted author's definition this term proposed. m...

The interest of scientists and companies in understanding the business implications of environmental investment is timely; however, a dilemma remains at the firm level: is the environment a “strategic competitive factor”, as in the “Porter point of view”, or is it a “luxury good”, as in the “Wagner point of view”? Our research contributes to this debate through a review of the papers published ...

In the post-crisis era new concepts are emerging, while some old and dysfunctional ones are being discarded. Strategy is about making series of decisions that drive corporate action under specific coupling with company’s environment and context. Because decisions are actions, so the strategy itself is action, not just a description of action. In the area of traditional strategy, descriptions (i...