The global outsourcing industry, including the Human Resources (HR) Systems outsourcing industry is growing at a phenomenal rate. The proponents of the resource-based view (RBV) have long argued that a firm gains sustainable competitive advantage from those resources and capabilities it controls and which are valuable, rare, imperfectly imitable, and not substitutable. The RBV also indicates th...

today, such organizations are successful and can continue to grow and survive in the competitive conditions that try to make use of thoughts and new ideas and identify needs and environmental opportunities and exploit to their benefit the actions that other organizations are doing in order to gain a competitive advantage and thereby, they can prevent the possible threats that will arise in the ...

This research paper provides an initial exploration of the factors influencing whether lower tier suppliers gain a competitive advantage through their implementation of Lean manufacturing, and highlights the implications for the aerospace industry and for the SMEs. The research findings indicated that the SMEs regarded Lean as a necessity to meet the growing demands of their customers and to re...

This study examines the impact of innovation at strategy level on process and system levels, which are considered to be forms function-level innovation, based implantation approach. The also reveals effect sustainable competitive advantage (SCA) young firms in Vietnam. research used primary data from a survey 289 firms’ leaders PLS-SEM using SmartPLS software was employed assess ability measure...

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 ...

Using a multi-method survival analysis, we explore the drivers behind DotCom success and failure. Specifically, we test the impact of industry-, firmand e-commerce-specific factors on a DotCom’s sustainable competitive advantage.

New knowledge (especially technological knowledge) is viewed as the foundation for innovation, change, and sustainable competitive advantage. Today, there is no doubt that knowledge is one of the most strategic weapons that can lead to achieving competitive success (Grant, 1996). The primary role of research and development (R&D) within organizations is to create new knowledge or recombine exis...