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Sources of Sustainable Competitive Advantage

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016
Lately, quality as an investment factor has received significant attention. In our earlier papers on this topic, we have discussed a key element in the process of identification of quality businesses is the presence of competitive advantages. However, not all competitive advantages are created equal.
Baijnath Ramraika, CFA, Prashant Trivedi
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How Sustainable is Your Competitive Advantage?

California Management Review, 1992
Through strategy, a company seeks to sustain its competitive advantage. Yet only recently has the study of strategy begun to examine how long a specific advantage can be sustained. Based on a study of sustainability patterns in a number of industries, this article shows how the competitive pressures associated with product imitation can be predicted by
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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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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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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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Sustainable Competitive Advantage Through Alliance

1995
Abstract The business press is full of stories about corporate alliances: KLM and Northwest Airlines, Xerox and Fuji, Caterpillar and Mitsubishi, Amgen and Kirin Brewery, IBM, Siemens and Toshiba. Information about alliances is not limited just to the news stories.
Elizabeth E Bailey, Weijian Shan
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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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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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Organic confusion: sustaining competitive advantage

Nutrition & Food Science, 1995
Examines marketing orientation in the organic produce sector. Presents results of a consumer survey which indicate that consumers are confused about the meaning of the term “organic” and that the current mechanisms for labelling organic produce are ineffective.
R.K. Hutchins, L.A. Greenhalgh
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