...Jose Celso Contador; Jose Luiz Contador; Walter Cardoso Satyro Purpose This paper proposes the “fields and weapons of the competition model applied to business networks” – CAC-Redes (in Portuguese, Campos e Armas da Competição – Redes de negócio), an extension of the fields and weapons...

...Rogério dos Santos Morais; Carlos Roberto Camello Lima Purpose A competitive business strategy with a greater chance of success depends on an accurate quantitative analysis of business strategic factors prevailing in a company. The purpose of this paper is to conduct the latter to determine...

... that has developed since the 1940s towards more sophisticated forms. He proposes that it has undergone five generations. The first one, entitled “reverse engineering”, was product oriented, comparing product characteristics, functionality, and performance of competitive offerings. Most authors, however...

...Scott G. Dacko Given that the majority of firms are followers of pioneering firms into new, related product markets, managers of almost all firms can benefit from benchmarking their competitive responses to pioneering new product introductions. This paper examines the competitive responses of firms...

...T.F. Burgess; H.K. Gules; J.N.D. Gupta; M. Tekin The topic of competitive priorities has attracted many of those interested in manufacturing strategy and stimulated a number of surveys in manufacturing industry. Much of this empirical work concentrates on large companies in industrialised economies...

... an organization and adapts dynamically to changes in the competitive environment. First establishes the role that performance measures play in the process of strategic change. An approach for the design of performance measurement systems for use in strategy evaluation and implementation is then presented. Finally...