Pursuit Beyond Competitiveness and Competitive Advantage

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

Competitiveness and Comparative Advantage in Hungarian Agriculture

We examine the competitiveness of Hungarian agriculture in relation to that of the EU, based on four indices of revealed comparative advantage, for the period 1992 to 1998. Consistency tests suggest that the indices are less satisfactory as cardinal and ordinal measures, but are useful in identifying whether or not Hungary has a comparative advantage in a particular product group. Despite signi...

Strategy and Competitive Advantage

Winning business strategies are grounded in sustainable competitive advantage. A company has competitive advantage whenever it has an edge over rivals in securing customers and defending against competitive forces. There are many sources of competitive advantage: making the highest-quality product, providing superior customer service, achieving lower costs than rivals, having a more convenient ...

Competitive Intelligence and Social Advantage

THISARTICLE PRESENTS A BRIEF CONSPECTUS of current issues in civilian competitive intelligence (CI). The authors note an extension of the concept beyond the traditional focus on business competition and highlight emergent tools and techniques (networking and groupware) which allow the concept to be more generally operationalized in terms of social advantage. They conclude with some reflections ...