with the rapid changes in international environments, it's very hard to sustain the corporate competitive advantage. knowing the competitive priorities leads the managers to a better understanding of corporate strategies in the future. the globalization pressure and the rapid changes in local markets have affected the firms' competitive advantages. having a clear understanding of comp...

Gender differences in paid performance under competition have been found many laboratory-based experiments, and it has suggested that these may arise because men women respond differently to psychological pressure competitive environments. To explore this further, we conducted a laboratory experiment comprising 444 subjects, measured gender four distinct situations. These were as follows: (i) t...

Does competitive pressure foster innovation? In addressing this important question, prior studies ignored a distinction between discrete innovation aiming at entirely new technology and continuous improvement consisting of numerous incremental improvements and modifications made upon the existing technology. This paper shows that distinguishing between these two types of innovation will lead to...