Value in Business : A Holistic, Systems-based Approach to Creating and Achieving Value

Some Challenges Encountered in Value Creation and Capture -- Part I Preparation -- Introduction to Systems Research and Systemic Reasoning -- Evolution of a Market of Free Competition: A Symbolic Approach -- Axiomatization of the Resource View: The Firm and Markets -- Evolution of Resources: An Axiomatized Resource View -- Part II Demand- and Supply-Side Strategies -- The Supply-Chain Ecosystem of a Firm -- Upstream/Downstream Impacts on a Firm’s Performance -- Sufficient Conditions that Lead to Synergistic Innovations -- Consumer Synergies: Simultaneous Utilities & Multi-Sided Markets -- The Systemic, Hierarchical Structure of the Mind -- Preferred Taxonomies & Inclusive Classification of Consumers -- Value Creation out of Innovation and Resources -- Value Capture out of Strategic Networks and Blocks -- When Effective Consumer Value Propositions Emerge -- Values and Competitive Advantages based on Customer Value Propositions -- Market-Sensing Capabilities and Their Vital Importance in Firm Performance -- Part V Some Roles of Manufacturing and Artificial Intelligence -- Manufacturing in Industrial Transformations -- How Artificial Intelligence Affects Technological Innovations -- Part VI Government Policies and Supports -- How the Government can Help Stimulate Economic Growth -- When Government Policies Improve Firm Performance -- Index.