Relationship Management, Competitive Advantage and Performance of Hotels: A Resource-Based View

Emotional intelligence and competitive advantage: examining the relationship from a resource-based view

Leaders have an essential role in facilitating strategic change within organizations. As resistance to change is primarily an emotional reaction to change, the study of emotions and the emotional intelligence of the leader is of growing interest in modern organizations. From a strategic perspective, the process of how the emotional intelligence of a leader contributes to competitive advantage f...

Telecommunication Resource Management for Competitive Advantage

Investigating the Impact of Human Resource Management Strategies on Competitive Advantage (National Iranian Oil Company)

The main purpose of the study was to investigate the effect of human resource management strategies on competitive advantage. In terms of applied purpose, the research was a correlational survey. The statistical population of the study was 1500 employees of the National Iranian Oil Company. 306 people were selected based on Cochran's formula as a statistical sample by simple random sampling met...

Value, Rareness, Competitive Advantage, and Performance: a Conceptual-level Empirical Investigation of the Resource-based View of the Firm

The resource-based view of the firm (RBV) hypothesizes that the exploitation of valuable, rare resources and capabilities contributes to a firm’s competitive advantage, which in turn contributes to its performance. Despite this notion, few empirical studies test these hypotheses at the conceptual level. In response to this gap, this study empirically examines the relationships between value, ra...

Virtual Organization as a Source of Competitive Advantage: A Framework from the Resource-Based View

A framework is developed for viewing the centralization issues of organizations to consider to what degree a virtual organization may help a firm obtain competitive advantage. Utilizing the concepts of flexibility and synergy, the framework can serve as a guide for practitioners to help determine what degree of synergy and flexibility a given organizational form would bring and what its suggest...