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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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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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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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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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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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Sustainable Competitive Advantage

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2022
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