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Competing with Copycats When Customers Are Strategic

Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2017
In this paper, we use a two-period game theoretical model to examine the decisions of a manufacturer and a copycat firm who are competing for strategic customers. The manufacturer decides on the amount of its market expansion advertising investment in the first period and on its pricing strategy in both periods.
Hubert Pun, Gregory D. DeYong
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Competence and strategic paradox

Management Decision, 1998
Looking at organizational decision and choices in the 1990s, it is tempting to conclude that we live in an era of focus and downsizing. The time of the conglomerate has passed. Downsizing can always be justified to improve efficiency, but only if it is really rightsizing to prepare a strong base for renewed growth.
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Competing Strategically Through Market Orientation

Journal of Hospital Marketing, 1998
As organizations seek to better understand their customers, competitors, and environments, the marketing function effectively serves as the support mechanism for these activities in many industries. Accordingly, in many organizations the marketing concept has been elevated to the stature of a strategic weapon, manifested in the form of market ...
M I, Rapert, L, Yarbrough
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Competing for Strategic Buyers

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2018
Although revenue-management markets are rarely monopolistic, this assumption is typically made in the literature. In this paper, multiple sellers in total offer K identical goods to n>K buyers with private persistent valuations. Goods are traded in continuous time before some deadline.
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Strategic Leadership Competencies

2003
Abstract : The strategic leadership literature in both the academic and military contexts is replete with long lists of the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed by strategic leaders of the future. Unfortunately, long comprehensive lists are problematic.
Richard Swengros, Robert Pricone, William Kidd, Stephen Gerras, Leonard Wong   +4 more
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Strategic competence and how to teach it

ELT Journal, 1991
Abstract Applied linguists have for some time suggested that communicative competence includes a major component, usually termed strategic competence, the development of which largely determines the learner's fluency and conversational skills.
Sarah Thurrell, Zoltán Dörnyei
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Entrepreneurial Competencies as Strategic Tools

2020
The debates about entrepreneurial competencies have increased in number. The study aims to develop the main key components of entrepreneurship as a competence for SMEs in Eastern European Countries (EEC). The development of our study will include a literature review of the concepts and theories in the field, an inventory of the required skills and ...
Ana-Maria Bercu, Dan Lupu
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Strategic Implications of Culturally Competent Care

The Health Care Manager, 2004
Providing culturally competent care has implications for health care managers and their organizations that go beyond a simple clinical perspective. The article defines culturally competent care and suggests what the specific strategic implications of delivering such care are.
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COMPETENCE-BASED STRATEGIC DEFENSE.

Academy of Management Proceedings, 1996
Strategies used to defend a firm's bundle of competencies against threats to their rent-producing capacities are outlined.
Zeev Rotem, Raphael Amit
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Strategic Management and Core Competencies

2002
Managers and management scholars alike need operational models and concepts for dealing with core competencies within strategic management. This book provides tools for the practitioner as well as fundamental theoretical concepts to enable scholars to further build upon Drejer's work.
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