Innovations as sustainable competitive advantages in the digital economy: substantiation and forecasting

Resources for Sustainable Competitive Advantages in the Mobile Service Market

Convergence effects between telecommunication, information technology, media and entertainment (TIME) markets lead to additional value-added opportunities within these markets, allowing new intermediaries to enter the market [1, 2]. On the other hand, due to these effects traditional entry barriers of these markets disappear and new forms of competition and substitution for existing suppliers a...

Comparative Advantages and Sustainable Development in Iranian Manufacturing Industries

A Model For The Creation Of Knowledge And Competitive Sustainable Advantages In The Supply Chain

This paper presents a model to measure the knowledge and sustainable competitive advantages generated by logistic operators, within the Efficient Consumer Response (ECR) framework. We present a definition of ECR practices, propose a model to measure the effects of these practices on final firm’s results and develop a validation of the methodology, meeting the demands of related companies and lo...

Measuring innovations in the knowledge economy

The Knowledge-based economy stands in focus for much of European policy and is also a policy issue within the OECD. The discourse on the coming of the knowledge (based) society and/or the knowledge (based) economy – with roots in the 1980s may be looked upon as a transformation of the still older discussions on the post industrial society (cf. eg. the foreword in Bell, 1973/76). Common proposit...

Innovations in Sustainable Earthquake Resisting Rocking Wall-Frames

This paper introduces a novel design concept for the development of efficient, sustainable Rocking-Wall Moment Frames (RWMFs) under seismic conditions. The proposed concepts lead to a novel structural configuration with provisions for Collapse Prevention (CP), Self-Centering (SC), reparability, performance control (PC), damage reduction, and energy based seismic analysis. It introduces the meri...