... understandings of how entrepreneurs navigate complexity, uncertainty and collective action. Entrepreneurial humility Competitive advantage Strategic virtues Humble founder Scale development Scale validation Humility scale Entrepreneurs today operate in increasingly complex and uncertain...

... market expectations without significant differentiation; Successful Differentiators (e.g. Signal) achieve competitive advantage by making specific attributes more important to their users; and Underperformers (e.g. Twitter) fail to meet market expectations on key attributes. Practical implications...

... at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode Artificial intelligence Algorithms Data Strategy Competitive advantage Generative AI The concept of artificial intelligence (AI) was introduced in the 1950s, but the newest wave of machine learning-based AI has started to emerge...

... be contacted at: Justin.Jahn@uni-wh.de © Emerald Publishing Limited 2023 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Business strategy Blue ocean strategy Business model Competitive advantage Digital transformation Value innovation Virtual care Specialty care Startups...

... creation Competitive advantage Digitalization is driving the consumerization of healthcare as patients take a more active role in managing their own health, acting as consumers. They expect convenient and fast access to information and quality healthcare services via digital channels...

...Gregory Gimpel; Candice M. Vander Weerdt Purpose Companies that leverage the Internet-of-things (IoT) will gain significant competitive advantages over the competition; however, few businesses have active IoT initiatives. This paper aims to provide principles to guide executives as they launch...

...Antonio Ghezzi Purpose This study aims to introduce the original idea of competitive empathy, to go beyond competitive advantage and help managers and entrepreneurs strategize with a shared purpose. Design/methodology/approach This study builds on and originally combines seminal works...

...Dejan Kosutic; Federico Pigni Purpose The purpose of this paper is to help companies address the problem of ever-increasing cybersecurity investment that does not produce tangible business value – this is achieved by explaining the relationship between cybersecurity and competitive advantage...

... sustainable competitive advantages because they score high on the following four dimensions: valuable, rare, inimitable and organized to exploit. This paper introduces a fifth dimension – the climate change resilience of the resource. Resources that are not always obvious choices for providing competitive...

...Gajendra Liyanaarachchi Purpose This paper aims to demonstrate how building competency in privacy can be used to transform the corporate strategy to generate a sustainable competitive advantage. A novel framework is presented as a guide to redesigning strategy by striking a balance between...

... to sense new opportunities. © Emerald Publishing Limited 2019 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Heuristics Dynamic capability Company’s culture Competitive advantage Dynamic markets Simple rules In challenging, high-velocity markets, a firm’s ability to sense...

... to both business models and strategies simultaneously to achieve long-term competitive profitability. Findings This study’s framework suggests that the delicate balance between strategy and business model design determines the long-term competitive advantage and profitability of a company. Focusing...

...Tulsi Jayakumar Purpose This paper aims to understand how emerging economy firms can use the growing emphasis on corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability as an opportunity to drive corporate social innovations (CSIs) so as to create shared value and gain competitive advantage...

... form of response to potential threats by open business models. Louis-David Benyayer can be contacted at: louisdavidbenyayer@gmail.com © Emerald Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Competitive advantage Business models Portfolio Business...

...Francesco Castellaneta Purpose This paper aims to present a model of how incentives enhance competitive advantage by improving the sourcing, development and leveraging of firm capabilities. Design/methodology/approach The author first reviews the key findings of prominent academic...

... innovation. As a result, strategic innovation is a key driver of sustainable competitive advantage for small businesses. Practical implications Small business leaders need to integrate strategic innovation with their strategic planning to remain competitive. The strategic innovation model presented...

... strategy in an increasingly complex and dynamic marketplace. Design/methodology/approach – The authors focused on the global managers charged with the responsibilities of developing and creating a culture of employee engagement as an important strategy for the competitive advantage of organizations...

... for competitive advantage. Design/methodology/approach – We review the literature on open innovation and combine it with a single case study of one multinational firm that is gradually implementing its open innovation strategy. We pay special attention to the development and usage of a collaborative...

... to consider environmental benefits in the development, promotion, distribution and/or pricing of products and services (Miles and Covin, 2000 ; Ottman, 1998). It is typically implemented through a differentiation strategy based on superior product attributes that can help firms achieve competitive advantage...

... explicit user needs.” © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Knowledge management Competitive advantage Product development Performance In 1988, while lying in bed after injuring his back, Bob Buckman, CEO of Buckman Laboratories, thought about what he really needed to run his...