Organizations that can successfully develop both radical and incremental innovations positively impact sustained competitive advantage, dramatically improving their chances of survival and success in both dynamic and stable environments (Han et al. 2001; Tushman and O'Reilly 1996). Experimentation...

A prominent feature of the management ? and increasingly marketing ? literature is offering normative prescriptions to corporate strategists for maximizing profits. However, with few exceptions, the ethicality of various profit making strategies has not been analysed or debated. Building upon...

This study has important implications for marketing theory and practice. In an era of turbulent market environments, the organisational ability to sense and seize market opportunities and to reconfigure the resource base accordingly, has significant effects on performance. This paper uses a...

With the growing significance of services in most developed economies, there is an increased interest in the role of service innovation in service firm competitive strategy. Despite growing literature on service innovation, it remains fragmented reflecting the need for a model that captures key...

Infrastructure organizations are operating in an increasingly challenging business environment as a result of globalization, privatization and deregulation. In an external business environment that is constantly changing, extant literature on strategic management advocates the need to focus on...

Supply chain relationships between firms are increasingly important in terms of both competitiveness and developing dynamic capability to respond to rapid changes in the market. Innovation capacity both in firms and in supply chains is also integral to responding to dynamic markets and customer...

This thesis examines the rising phenomenon of the internationalisation ofChinese firms, and aims to shed new light on our understanding of theemergence of firms from emerging economies in the global market. It consistsof two parts: the country level study and the firm level. The former...

This paper draws together four related strands of theory to address theprocesses of corporate value creation. Specifically, contributions fromresource-based theory, dynamic capabilities, corporate strategy and Mintzberg’sstructure theory have been combined to derive four congruent...