Over the past few years, an increasing number of authors in the human resource management field have developed an interest in the roles played by HR departments and HR executives in the formulation of the business strategy. However, it is relevant to examine in which context the use of these...

The firm is the central actor for the effectuation of innovation and technological change. The large industrial laboratories of the previous century have given way to more organizationally and geographically diffuse sources of technology, placing even greater emphasis on the coordination skills...

For too long, most people who run companies have made a variety of unwarranted but detrimental assumptions about pricing. Changing prices, for example, has been looked upon as an easy, quick and reversible process, and new technologies have only reinforced that way of thinking. Similarly,...

Stefan Ulrich Radtke bietet anhand eines selbst entwickelten ressourcen- und fähigkeitenbasierten Modells nachhaltiger Wettbewerbsvorteil konkrete Handlungsempfehlungen als Antworten auf die strategischen Herausforderungen von etablierten Fernsehsendern im digitalen Zeitalter. Dr. Stefan Ulrich...

Existing theories of the firm exhibit significant shortcomings when questions turn to intra-organizational power and extra-organizational relationships - two issues central to understanding firm operations. Here I advance an alternative view, founded on the Montreal School of organizational...

According to the Resource-based View (RBV), the possession and subsequent deployment of superior bank-specific intangible resources is a sure means of achieving a commercial bank's sustainable competitive advantage and superior performance. Drawing from the RBV, the current study develops a...

This chapter examines resource management trend of top fortune global multinational enterprises from emerging markets. Drawing on the resource-based and competence-based strategic management theories, it is argued that firms that best manage their resources and possess hard-to-copy resources are...

Taking a grounded approach, we devised a framework to explain how entrepreneurs attract critical resources to venture creation and development. The study was based on qualitative data from a series of interviews with thirteen entrepreneurs conducted in a sample of six case studies. The framework...