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This Perspective from The Boston Consulting Group’s Strategy Institute is the sixth in a series on the future of strategy. Earlier articles examined the central role of adaptive advantage in today’s turbulent and unpredictable business environment.1 This article discusses how companies can attain a “simulation advantage” by creating a system and culture dedicated to achieving superior economics...

The information technology (IT) resource-based view suggests that IT capability is one of the determinants of a firm’s competitive advantage and financial performance. However, we know relatively little about the relationship between IT capability and financial performance during the period of economic downturn. Even fewer research related to this is done in China as the largest emerging We use...

This study examines the effect of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on financial performance. Specifically, I analyze the effect of CSR-related shareholder proposals that pass or fail by a small margin of votes. The passage of such “close-call” proposals is akin to a random assignment of CSR to companies and hence provides a clean causal estimate. Consistent with the view that CSR is a valu...

This paper describes challenges faced by companies that form partnership with global suppliers in developing an integrated product. Many experts agree that concurrent product development (CPD) across the supply chain is the next significant challenge in design for manufacturability. Effective management of this process is a key to achieve superior timeto-market and life cycle quality. Drawing o...

A large part of the literature from industrial organisation and management expects that, compared with unrelated M&As, related M&As show superior economic performance because of synergetic effects that follow from economies of scale and scope. The current contribution takes the debate on the effect of different M&As somewhat further by studying the effect of M&As on the technological performanc...

As we approach the next century, the software industry landscape is undergoing massive technology and business changes. The client/server revolution has barely reached its half-life and it is already being eclipsed by the Internet revolution. Software development is moving away from the direction of being labour-intensive. Customers are buying more pre-packaged software solutions or software co...

The reduction in protectionist barriers in India has made the Indian business environment more competitive. For surviving and growing in the new scenario, Indian companies need to improve their competitiveness and choose effective strategies. This paper attempts to identify critical success factors and key strategies to be pursued by companies. Based on questionnaire data collected from 125 CEO...

This paper investigates the current state of corporate Australia’s balanced scorecard practices and the plan to implement it in near future. An investigation of top 50 Australian companies surveyed revealed that only 33 percent companies have implemented balanced scorecard (BSC) and 25 percent companies are planning to implement it in future. The results indicate that management of Australian c...