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Competitive Advantage and the Independent Retail Pharmacy: The Role of Distinctive Competencies

Journal of Pharmaceutical Marketing & Management, 2000
ABSTRACTDriven by the rising use of third-party reimbursement programs, changing customer purchasing patterns, and increasing competition, independent retail pharmacists are searching for new ways to remain competitive. This paper reports the results of a study designed to illustrate the importance of cultivating distinctive competencies, generally ...
Jeffrey E. McGee, Leonard G. Love, Troy A. Festervand   +2 more
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Intersectional Invisibility: The Distinctive Advantages and Disadvantages of Multiple Subordinate-Group Identities

Sex Roles, 2008
The hypothesis that possessing multiple subordinate-group identities renders a person “invisible” relative to those with a single subordinate-group identity is developed. We propose that androcentric, ethnocentric, and heterocentric ideologies will cause people who have multiple subordinate-group identities to be defined as non-prototypical members of ...
Valerie Purdie-Vaughns, Richard P. Eibach   +1 more
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Core Competence, Distinctive Competence, and Competitive Advantage: What Is the Difference?

Journal of Education for Business, 2007
Core competence, distinctive competence, and competitive advantage are 3 of the most important business concepts that managers, researchers, and educators rely on for decision making, pedagogy, and research. However, little attention has been paid to defining these concepts. As a result, they have become buzzwords that are used so frequently that their
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The Crossdisciplinary Structure of Kinesiology and Sports Studies: Distinctions, Implications, and Advantages

Quest, 1979
(1979). The Crossdisciplinary Structure of Kinesiology and Sports Studies: Distinctions, Implications, and Advantages. Quest: Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 222-230.
Hal A. Lawson, W. Robert Morford
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Scrum Practice Mitigation of Global Software Development Coordination Challenges: A Distinctive Advantage?

2012 45th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2012
Global software development is a major trend in software engineering. Practitioners are increasingly trying Agile methods in distributed projects to tap into the benefits experienced by co-located teams. This paper considers the issue by examining whether Scrum practices, used in four global software development projects to leverage the benefits of ...
Paul L. Bannerman, Emam Hossain, Ross Jeffery   +2 more
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The Distinct Advantages of a Sales-Apportioned Corporate Cash Flow Tax

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016
This paper explores the impacts of adopting two corporate income tax reforms simultaneously: the conversion to a cash-flow tax, that would allow the expensing of investment while disallowing interest deductions, and the switch to sales-based formula apportionment, that would tax worldwide profits in proportion to domestic sales revenue. I find that the
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Distinct Advantages of BioLuminescence for Neuroscience

2021
Moore, Christopher I., Lipscombe, Diane, Hochgeschwender, Ute, Shaner, Nathan C., Allen, Justine J.   +4 more
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Characteristics, Distinctive Advantages & Wide Ranging Applications of Chrome-Manganese Stainless Steels

Advanced Materials Research, 2013
Developed over last six decades, Chrome-Manganese stainless steels now comprise a whole family of lustrous products in a variety of compositions and properties to facilitate optimal selection of most appropriate grades for a large number of applications .This paper describes properties of some of these steels and how they compare with Chrome-Nickel ...
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Strengths-based approach in social work: A distinct ethical advantage

2017
The Author believe that social work and human services professionals can see great outcomes when they work with the inherent strengths of individuals, family groups and organisations. Whenever we assist people in their recovery and their empowerment, our commitment to build on these inherent strengths goes a long way.
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Internal Analysis: Distinctive Competencies, Competitive Advantage, and Profitability.

2021
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