In today world, organizations’ performance and making the sustainable competitive strength have become incrementally important for them according to the quick global evolutions. The dairy industry is one of the most important industries which has made very competitive environment. The case study of this research is Kaleh Dairy Company as one of the active companies in dairy industries. One of t...

by the appropriate use of information technology, organizations can achieve sustainable competitive advantages. this technology because of including some characteristics such as being up-to-date, fast and precise and having different geographic localities all the time, has improved organizational efficiency, effectiveness and performance. in this article, we intend to investigate the role and e...

Table 1 The GADGET-matrix (Hatakka et al. 1999) Table 2 Scenarios for level 1, Vehicle manoeuvring Table 3 Scenarios for level 2, Mastering traffic situations Table 4 Scenarios for level 3, Goals and context of driving Table 5 Scenarios for level 4, Goals for life and skills for living Table 6 Combination of three levels of driver performance and three levels of driving tasks Table 7 Suggestion...

Background: The banking industry can create sustainable development and be a competitive advantage of the enterprise by promoting a sustainable environment and investment focused on social responsibility. Therefore, the present study was formed with the aim of identifying the components of innovative green banking based on bioethics. Method: The research method in the present study was qualita...

While information technology (IT) serves as a new source of sustainable competitive advantage for firms, it also induces hyperturbulent environments (or hyperturbulence) that erode that sustainable competitive advantage. In this paper, we posit that these contradictions might be due to cross-level nonlinear causality between firm-level IT-based strategic actions and collective-level IT-induced ...

Information technology (IT) has been asserted to be a source of sustainable competitive advantage. Empirical evidence has shown that IT can improve a company’s performance and competitive position. We examine the factors that are believed to lead to a sustainable competitive advantage due to an IT-enabled strategy, and test these factors empirically. Our findings show that managerial IT skills ...

This paper introduces the concept of strategic advantage and distinguishes it from competitive advantage. This concept helps to explain the full nature of sustainable competitive advantage through uncovering the dynamics of resource-based strategy. A new classification of resources emerges, demonstrating that rents are more relevant than profits in the analysis of sustainable competitive advant...

Synergy is a concept fraught with ambiguity about its sources and effects, perhaps as a consequence of of previous literature on the subject not distinguishing between these. In this paper, the sources of synergy are separated from the sources of sustainable competitive advantage in order to analyze the competitive implications of different types of synergies, and thus be able to answer the que...

in early 21st century, rapid and all- inclusive global change has transformed so much the working environment of organizations that the organizations and their managers are obliged to find new ways for their actions to adapt to global change and evolution, so that they can survive in the domestic and global competition arena. in fact, an organization will be successful that can achieve a sustai...