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Project safety as a sustainable competitive advantage

Journal of Safety Research, 2004
To be consistently profitable, a construction company must complete projects in scope, on schedule, and on budget. At the same time, the nature of the often high-risk work performed by construction companies can result in high accident rates. Clients and other stakeholders are placing increasing pressure on companies to decrease those accident rates ...
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Firm resources and sustained competitive advantage

Journal of Management, 1991
Understanding sources of sustained competitive advantage has become a major area of research in strategic management. Building on the assumptions that strategic resources are heterogeneously distributed acrossfirms and that these differences are stable over time, this article examines the link betweenfirm resources and sustained competitive advantage.
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Sustainability and Competitive Advantage

2015
Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility have been perceived for many years by companies only as an annoyance, involving regulations and extra cost. The recent economic downturn and increasing stakeholder pressure have forced businesses to embrace the complexity and interdependencies between shareholder value and sustainable value ...
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Conceptualization of Competitive Advantage and Sustainable Competitive Advantage, the Question of Diversity

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008
Competitive advantage has always been an issue of discussion ever since the advent of strategic management as a field of study and practice. Michael Porter was the first to make the term popular in the early 80s and he was so successful in attracting the scholars’ attention to the idea of competitive advantage that it became the keyword of strategic ...
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Company Specific Advantage and Sustainable Competitive Advantage

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013
Company Specific Advantage is conceived as the main thrust of most strategy directions in management practices within a company. As a firm is understood as a going concern, a company’s objective is to generate and to sustain long-term viability. The question then is: how does a firm generate and sustain its long-term viability?
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Sustainable competitive advantage in perspective

Engineering Management Journal, 1996
A framework is presented which considers different dimensions of competitive advantage in order to identify and evaluate various directions an organisation may pursue over time to improve and sustain its competitive position.
K. Chaharbaghi, E. Nugent
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Differentiation and Sustainable Competitive Advantage

2021
This chapter discusses the attributes that make fintech products different from traditional financial products. Being fully mounted on digital platforms, fintech products present unique characteristics such as intensive data generation through direct interaction between consumers and the brand, analysis of data generated by these interactions, which ...
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SUSTAINING COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE

2007
E.ON entrepreneurship has long been recognised as a potentially viable means for promoting and sustaining corporate competitiveness. Scholl Hammer (1982), Miller (1983), Guth and Ginsberg (1990), Nam and Slevin (1993), and Lumpkin and Dess (1996), for example, have all noted that corporate entrepreneurship can be used to improve competitive positioning
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Sustainability as a Competitive Business Advantage

2010
“Sustainability”, “Sustainable Development”, and “Corporate Social Responsibility” are all terms that are increasingly being used in daily communication. Also, companies are finding that the use of environmental claims in their marketing efforts can pay dividends. Product performance related to “lower energy consumption”, “better recycling rates”, etc.,
Wolfgang Wimmer, Kun Mo Lee, Ferdinand Quella, John Polak   +3 more
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Gaining Sustainable Competitive Advantage

2017
At the forefront of every CEO’s mind is the question: “How do I make my company achieve a superior financial performance?” Superiority, whether measured in terms of profits, earnings and sales growth, returns on capital, investment or assets, is a relative concept.
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