At present, low-carbon economy has become the great trend in the development of global economy under the serious climate environment gradually. China’s small and medium enterprises (SME) have taken the large proportions in national economy, which face large amount of opportunities and challenges in the wave of reform. This article analyses the current situation and the problems on development s...

The “resource-based view of the firm” has become an important conceptual framework in strategic management but has been widely criticized for lack of an empirical base. To address this deficit, we utilize a new method for identifying inter-firm differences in efficiency within the context of stochastic frontier production functions. Using data on Japanese and U.S. automobile manufacturers, we d...

We address the general problem of how best to attack and destroy a network by node removal, given limited or no prior information about the edges. We consider a family of strategies in which nodes are randomly chosen, but not removed. Instead, a random acquaintance (i.e., a first neighbour) of the chosen node is removed from the network. By assigning an informal cost to the information about th...

In this paper, we summarize the components and framework that make up the Blue Ocean and Judo Strategies, as identified and given these titles in recent strategic management literature. This is done by means of a case study analysis of a United States bank that has successfully implemented these strategies. From these analyses, a number of implications are drawn for how elements of these two ve...

We consider a game Gn played by two players. There are n independent random variables Z1; : : : ; Zn, each of which is uniformly distributed on [0; 1]. Both players know n, the independence and the distribution of these random variables, but only player 1 knows the vector of realizations z := (z1; : : : ; zn) of them. Player 1 begins by choosing an order zk1 ; : : : ; zknof the realizations. Pl...

Efficiency and effectiveness are not sufficient in the global era. Explicability and ethics – not only doing the things right but also doing the right things – are emerging as major components of corporate success. Key aspects of competitiveness have moved from data and information to knowledge and wisdom. Strategy and strategic action have upstaged efficient performance and flawless execution....

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Non-life insurance pricing depends on different costs including claim and business acquisition costs, management expenses and other parameters such as margins for fluctuations in claims experience, expected profits etc. Nevertheless, in a competitive insurance market environment, the company’s premium should respond to changes in the level of premiums being offered by competitors. In this paper...