An Investigation of Competitive Priorities and competitive Advantage among small scale industries with reference to Coimbatore city

Competitive Advantage in Technology Intensive Industries

This chapter introduces the learner to the meaning of competitive advantage and posits that a firm’s strategy is defined as the managers’ theory about how to gain and sustain competitive advantage. The manner in which a firm creates its competitive advantage by creating more economic value than its rivals, and explains that profitability depends upon value, price, and costs is demonstrated. The...

To Hunt or to Scavenge: Competitive Advantage and Competitive Strategy in Platform Industries

Firms choose their competitive strategies to achieve competitive advantage. With the help of a dynamic model we demonstrate that in platform industries, any market structure can be mapped into different types of competitive (dis-) advantage. Numerically simulating the model allows us to find the optimal competitive strategy for each competitive position of a firm within a given market structure...

The Competitive Advantage of the Inner City

Comparative Advantage and Competitive Advantage:

There is a considerable amount of controversy about the model(s) of comparative advantage and its applicability to international business, in particular as a guide to the success of nations and/or firms in international markets. This perception (or understanding) of inapplicability of the model(s) of comparative advantage has lead international business experts to develop new models, or what ma...

Brokers and Competitive Advantage