The arguably dominant contemporary approach to the analysis of sustained competitive advantage is the resource-based view. Taking Barney (1991) and Peteraf (1993) as representative summary statements of the view, we argue that much resource-based research rests on partial, implicit and problematic assumptions, and that this has led to conclusions that are much less general than the proponents o...

Recent interest in evidence-based design (EBD) by the U.S. healthcare industry has led to new questions about how to best use this knowledge to improve the efficiency, safety, quality, and sustainability of new or existing facilities. Proponents of EBD claim that it enhances healthcare outcomes by utilizing empirical research to drive decision-making during all phases of healthcare facility pla...

Camping is a salient economic contributor to nature-based tourism that also beholden the natural environment. Climate resources are combination of naturally occurring meteorological variables empirically observable importance firm performance. Tourism climatologist at forefront climate resource research, where investigations have been primarily derived rather than guided by theory. Accordingly,...

the oldest works of muslim scholars in the fields of kalām , ḥadīth and tafsīr during the 2nd and 3rd centuries ah rarely offer an explicit basis for regarding the qur’ān as an inimitable miracle of the prophet. however, the issue appears fully fledged in the works of scholars such as al-bāqillānī, qāḍī ‘abd al-jabbār and al-sharīf al- murtaḍā. this silence in the early islamic centuries, when ...

Prior research suggests that firms’ ability to benefit from their technologies is determined by the strength of intellectual property (IP) laws and inimitability technologies. We complement this explanation suggesting generation profits technology also driven how effectively firms engage in patent infringement litigation (i.e., take legal action against rivals) create isolating mechanisms prote...

the mu'tazila and the new mu'tazila are two rationalist schools of islamic theology the adherents of which have paid special attention to the literary exegesis of the qur'n.the mu'tazila's literary approach was rooted in their thinking which was based on kalām, including doctrines like quranic createdness )khalq-e qur'an(, inimitability )i'jaz(, the existence ...

rhetoric – which means correspondence of discourse to the conditions of the audience – has always been considered as the manifestation of the quran’s inimitability and matchlessness. accordingly, semantics has been invented to obtain an exact understanding of the different dimensions of rhetoric in discourse in general, and in the divine word in particular. this science sets out to inspect disc...

at the beginning of 20th century, psychology got a special status in contemporary criticism (or critical approaches) through the theories of freud and jung. literary works were being criticized by such approaches on the basis of the text sender (author or poet), after a while, with the rise of other psychological schools – such as gestalt- they started to be criticized on the basis of their inf...

This research aims to elicit Quranic purposes from the field interpretation of Sheikh Abdul Rahman Hasaan Habanka Al-Maidani by studying Surat Al-Asr, Al-Adiyat, Al-Kawthar, and Al-Takathur as a model. The knowledge surahs leads realization some notable revelation Quran, consideration its phrases, words, purposes, statement what Allah almighty wants in it, verses are guided way that achieves un...