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THE EVOLUTION OF COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE: HAS VIRTUAL MARKETING REPLACED TIME‐BASED COMPETITION?

Competitiveness Review: An International Business Journal, 2000
Businesses succeed or fail based on competitive advantage. Over the course of business history a number of innovative business practices have earned the distinction of being “milestones” in competitive advantage. Examples of such groundbreaking competitive developments include portfolio strategies in product management and restructuring companies ...
Julie T. Johnson, James W. Busbin
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Time-Based Competition Is Not Enough

Research-Technology Management, 1996
Companies willing to embrace complexity are screening managers for a different, bigger set of personal attributes. OVERVIEW: Heads of RD developing new products versus developing people and new technology are, in part, conflicting priorities. They compete for resources. Strong, autonomous new product teams may be fast, but it can be tough to coordinate
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Exploring relational aspects of time‐based competition

International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management, 2008
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to begin to explore the phenomenon of time pressure in supply chain relationships.Design/methodology/approachUsing grounded theory methodology, qualitative data were accumulated from experienced supply chain managers.
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Time‐based competitiveness in Brazil: whys and hows

International Journal of Operations & Production Management, 1998
The objective of the paper is to report research carried out over two years aiming at developing a framework to support the management of manufacturing organizations for whom reducing throughput time is strategically important, either because they compete based on short lead times or because they choose to pursue other objectives such as cost reduction
Rohr, S. S., Correa, H. L.
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Study on enterprise operation model of time-based competition

Proceedings of ICSSSM '05. 2005 International Conference on Services Systems and Services Management, 2005., 2005
The uncertainty increasing of the enterprise business circumstance and the changed mode and concept of people's consumption result in the competition among the enterprises from the focus on the cost, quality and service to the variety and time of the products gradually.
null Tao Wu, null Rongqiu Chen, null Jing Xue   +2 more
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Time Based Competition and Innovation

2002
By choosing their organizations, firms trade-off productive efficiency and time spent in implementing innovation. We embed such a productivity/reactivity trade-off in a growth model with creative destruction. We first highlight the specific impact of time in firm competition: in addition to weighing costs and benefits of late adoption, firms use time ...
Thesmar, David, Thoenig, Mathias
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Time Pacing: Strategic Decision-making for Time-based Competition

2006 International Conference on Management Science and Engineering, 2006
Cost and quality will be necessary, but not sufficient determinants of commercial success. In the fast changing 21st century, speed and agility will become increasingly pivotal, time-based competition (TBC) will intensify. TBC involves compressing the time needed to perform activities associated with delivering high-quality products and services to ...
Jian-lin Zhang, Hu Bei
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Penerapan Strategi Time-Based Competition pada Perusahaan Manufaktur

Sinergi, 2004
Time is the secret weapon of business. Advantages in response time provide leverage for all the other competitive differences that make up a company’s overall competitive advantage. The new generation of competitors is obtaining remarkable results by focusing its organizations on flexibility and responsiveness.
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A contingency view of time‐based competition for manufacturers

International Journal of Operations & Production Management, 1996
The growing time‐based competition (TBC) literature coincides with an increased emphasis on time in manufacturing organizations. In a 1993 survey, 93 per cent of US and European managers identified reliable delivery times as having above average importance, while overall delivery speed was cited by 88 per cent and 89 per cent, respectively. At the same
Cecil Bozarth, Steve Chapman
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Time‐based competition and beyond: Competing on capabilities

Planning Review, 1992
Strategies of the past and the present have been based on structural advantages — e.g., products and markets, geography and cost, technologies. These patterns explain much of the nature of competition between business entities. Structural advantages can be identified and measured; they are differentiated among competitors, and their differences explain
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