Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play an important role in economic and development growth, particularly in developing countries. Their success depends on the expansion of their markets across borders, based on the strategies adopted, in which differentiation strategies and positional...

Organizational learning (OL) offers knowledge sharing and innovation to firms. OL is a driver of firms' competitive advantage and performance, yet this symbiotic relationship has not been adequately explored in most developing countries. It is against this backdrop that the current study aims to...

This paper identifies the salient features of feedforward control and the advantages that it provides vis-à-vis feedback control. These advantages are especially salient in strategic control situations and also during periods of environmental turbulence and extreme strategic discontinuity....

The economic advancement of emerging markets such as China, Brazil, and India has been regarded as one of the benefits of a globalized world. This paper revisits and evaluates the Uppsala model to teases out the process, speed, determinants, and challenges of early internationalization...

This study aims to contribute to the systematisation of knowledge in the field of business strategies and analyse its trends. An initial dataset of 884 articles was extracted from the WoS and Scopus databases based on keywords. This dataset was reduced to 430 articles by detailed reading and...

A perusal of the literature shows that a broad frame of references for organizational success is not adequately developed. Therefore, by taking an interdisciplinary approach with a relational perspective, this study takes an integrative and fresh approach toward illuminating the moderate role of...

Purpose - This research aims to identify the optimal configuration of investment which leads firms to their best competitive positions, considering the degree of concentration in the market. Design/methodology/approach - The methodology was quantitative and based on secondary data with samples...

This study investigates the relationship between market competition (MC) and business strategy by analyzing data from 562 non-financial companies listed on the Vietnamese stock market between 2010 and 2019. Utilizing the Generalized Method of Moments (GMM), we assess the impact of MC on specific...

Competition is the catalyst of corporate innovation, which is the foundation of a country's core competitiveness. From the view of vertical industrial chain, this paper examines how downstream competition affects upstream firms' innovation output. Given innovation helps reduce the production...

Competitive intelligence can be used as a catalyst to guide green marketing strategies as well as to create and maintain competitive advantage. The purpose of this article is to identify and rank the effective factors of competitive intelligence on green marketing and understand the effects of...

There are studies investigating a country's digital competitiveness; however, there is a lack of research examining digital competitiveness at the enterprise level. Hence, the current study aims at composing an enterprise digital competitiveness index (EDCI), which provides a possibility to...

In the eight decades since researchers started to explore the possibility that firms' responsibilities extended beyond the interests of shareholders, research on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has ballooned. The number of calls for more research on a steadily growing number of CSR-related...

The competitive dynamics of strategic groups perform a major role in shaping the competitive background of industries. Strategic groups are sets of companies within an industry that follow related strategies or have comparable characteristics, such as product offerings, target markets, or...