...Alex Akuffo Otopah; Ernest Edem Tulasi; Ofosu Amofah; Irene Tiwaa Asare-Yeboa Purpose The study investigated the mediating effect of competitive strategy and adaptive capability in the relationship between digital transformation and performance of small- and medium-scale enterprises (SMEs...

...Matthew T. Oglesby; John A. Parnell; Diane C. Kutz Purpose This study analyzes strategic flexibility with a two-dimensional approach (structural and decisional flexibility). It also investigates the relationships among competitive strategy, structural flexibility, decisional flexibility...

..., such as globalization, managers wonder whether strategic frameworks are still applicable. Design/methodology/approach The authors employ principal component analysis (PCA) to measure competitive strategy and analyze a sample of 6,037 firm-years among 651 firms between 2000 and 2019. Findings While the authors...

...Sidhartha Das; Cem Canel Purpose The purpose of this study is to propose a framework depicting the dynamic links between a firm’s external environment, competitive strategy, manufacturing strategy, competitive advantage and firm performance. This is followed by articulating expected differences...

... (cite coupon work in small retailers in Runyan and Droge, 2008 article), otherwise not available to their larger competitor. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Small enterprises Retailing Competitive strategy Big box chains Large enterprises Business development...

... competition Patent thickets Patent fences Spheres of influence Resource similarity Innovation Competitive strategy Literature refinements to that overarching conclusion are numerous: for example, as resource similarity among firms increases, and multimarket contact increases, competition...

... at: howard.thomas@wbs.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Modelling Cognition Resources Resource management Business performance Competitive strategy According to the resource‐based view (RBV), sustainable differential performance may be obtained from a firm's superior resource...

... of the firm, instead of resources. It is equally limiting to perform resource analysis at a level of aggregation that is too high (overly vague, and hard to intervene constructively) or too low (missing key systemic qualities). Resource management Corporate strategy Competitive strategy Performance...

... it and are accountable in doing so. That was very new territory because you had to transfer staff from the public sector and put long‐term contracts in place. We obviously started at a point where people wanted to have new solutions. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Competitive strategy Business...

... to be reasonably reliable. The values of Durbin‐Watson for the four regression models are close to 2 (ranging from 1.58 to 1.71); therefore the assumption of independent errors is almost tenable (Field, 2000). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Business planning Competitive strategy Management...

.... Nicholas O'Regan can be contacted at: Nicholas.O'Regan@uwe.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Leadership Decision making Competitive strategy As McNulty and Pettigrew (1999) point out, “to understand strategy, we need to know more about the strategists. To better understand...

...Olivier Furrer; D. Sudharshan; Howard Thomas; Maria Tereza Alexandre Purpose This paper, anchored in the resource‐based view of the firm, attempts to develop linkages between firm‐level resources, Porter's competitive strategy space and firm performance and explores them in the context of a new...

... in assets as in sales. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Competitive strategy International business International organizations South East Asia The focus of this paper is an empirical analysis of the international competitiveness of the largest firms on Asia. We define...