... at: yishuo@ms4.hinet.net Decision making Escalation of commitment Resource‐based view Change management Planning Competitive strategy From the perspective of the resource‐based view (RBV), the competitive advantage of a firm is achieved by its capability in obtaining and accumulating...

... around it. Narratives Change management Competitive strategy Mass media This paper explores ideas of rivalry and the archetypical characters that the studied managers embraced as a way of making narrative sense of the perceived changes in the environment. As the result of a qualitative...

... Competitive strategy Strategic planning Capital China Most strategy studies have followed either a structuralist perspective (e.g. cultural, industry‐based, and/or institutional approaches), which conceptualizes strategy as an agentless action, or conceptualize strategy as purely rational (e.g...

... that a methodology for accessing information about archetypes in general and capitalist competition in particular is through creative imagination. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Creativity Competitive strategy Jungian psychology Capitalism Archetypes are dynamic; they are capable of evolution through...

... endlessly as snowflakes or diamonds, active living dispositions, ideas in the Platonic sense, that perform and continually influence our thoughts feelings and actions (Jung, 1969). Competitive strategy Economics Language Organizations Stakeholders Theory Competition is an archetype...

..., if the metaphor is particularly apt, if, in Aristotelian terms, the charm, delight and clarity of the trope render it particularly persuasive, then it is potentially more dangerous ‐ for it may actuate literal rather than figurative interpretation. © MCB UP Limited 1997 Competitive strategy...