manufacturing industries of agricultural products, which constitute a considerable part of different countries’ economies, are seeking new profitable opportunities by increasing competition at the international level. organizational agility is new method and philosophy of production that seeks to react effectively to the variable and unpredictable environment and to utilize the changes as chanc...

The business environmental structure is constantly being shaped by customer’s desires and market dynamics. A large number of loosely interconnected participants make up a business ecosystem, and offers a customized and complete set of products and services. In a business ecosystem, the competitiveness of a company is influenced by its own capability and its interrelated partners’ capabilities. ...

The nature and economic role of legally constituted firms varies between market economies and changes over time. In particular, the governance of leading firms and how they develop distinctive organisational capabilities vary between institutional regimes and their supporting political-economic coalitions. These characteristics can be combined to distinguish five ideal types of firms that domin...

As part of an effort to examine the value of intangible assets in the firm, our study is the first to create IT-related intangible asset stocks from firm-level survey data. We also use data on ITrelated business practices in order to understand the distribution of IT-related intangibles, and we create asset stocks to value research and development (R&D) and brand. Using a panel of 130 firms ove...

A substantial body of work supports the view that firm capabilities, developed via experience in the precursor industry are major determinant of success for entrants to new product markets. However, where new product innovations are not isolated occurrences but part of the diffusion of a general purpose technology, as with the surge of digital products induced by the current ICT revolution, it ...

The rising trend toward entrepreneurism and rapid advances in IT are encouraging many software startups to enter the market place. Software startups contribute to the society by creating jobs and by driving innovation. Research on the business of software development, so far, had concentrated mainly on established firms. This research-in-progress paper seeks to shed light on how software startu...

The primary role of marketing within the competitive advantage is innovation. The customer value-based differentiation strategies will drive the company’s market research efforts, its selection of target markets, its product development processes, its market communications programs, and its delivery processes. These processes require many specific capabilities that enable the firm to carry out ...

This study uses dynamic 5-bus and 30-bus test cases to explore the net surplus (congestion rents) collected and redistributed by ISOs in restructured wholesale power markets with grid congestion managed by locational marginal pricing. The price-sensitivity of demand and the learning capabilities of generators are taken as treatment factors. A key finding is that ISO net surplus substantially in...

We are interested in supporting multi-agent contracting in which customer agents solicit the resources and capabilities of other selfinterested supplier agents in order to accomplish their goals. Goals may involve the execution of multi-step tasks in which different tasks are contracted out to different suppliers. In this paper we focus on the design of supplier agents. The agents are designed ...

Marketing practitioners and business scholars now view some of the world’s poorest communities as profitable growth markets. Hence a market-based approach to poverty alleviation has gathered momentum. This paper traces the evolution of such a market-based approach over four decades, and highlights a gradual trend away from a deficit-reduction approach (focused on constraints and justice) toward...