This paper proposes a knowledge-based customer-centric strategic model to respond to environmental challenges and achieve sustainable competitive advantage (SCA) in the supply chain management (SCM) context. The proposed model strives to leverage knowledge-based distinctive core competencies...

Globally, sustainable development goals (SDGs), which need to be achieved using the sharing economy, are the focus of many recent studies. This article investigates the impact of sharing economy features such as core competence and resources on achieving SDGs in the tourism industry in the BRICS...

This article puts forward an approach to systemic understanding of innovation outsourcing types based on the dialectical combination of the general and the specific in outsourcing practice. The study involved synthesis, systematisation, and development of theoretical and applied approaches to...

Leadership demands on Agricultural Co-operatives’ boards of directors are greater today than ever before. Directors are charged with, not only the fiduciary duties of the organization but the strategic vision to recognize changing trends in agriculture, economic viability, and market needs to...

Innovation has been cited as the single most critical source of competitive advantage and enables firms to respond creatively to competitive threats and opportunities. That notwithstanding, innovation process has not been well developed and understood. This study aims at addressing this gap by...

Although the interdependence between the core competencies of the collaborating partners and synergy as an important consideration when companies decide to go for a merger is theoretically understood and evident, further empirical research is needed to integrate two concepts into a coherent...

One of the most important questions in business partners' collaboration is whether their strategies create a collaborative synergy and thus add market value. This paper aims to develop a conceptual framework that will be useful for scholars and practitioners in developing foresight for explicit...

Part I: Preparing for the Adventure -- Chapter 1 - The Strategy Playbook: Mastering the Intricacies of Business -- Chapter 2 - Trapped in the Quicksand: Why Strategies Falter -- Part II: Navigating the Competitive Arena -- Chapter 3 - Survival of the Fittest: Decoding Competition and Its...

The extent to which domestic industrial capabilities are essential in contributing to a Nations’ prosperity and national well being is the topic of long-standing debate. On the one hand, globalization and production outsourcing can lead to greater productivity, lower product costs, and gains...

This study aims to examine how unrelated diversification facilitate firm’s growth and innovation. To achieve this goal, we investigate how Maeil Dairies has diversified through open innovation as the Korean dairy market struggles to maintain its size. Maeil Dairies, one of the top three...

This paper aims to unbundle the antecedents of competence-based synergy in the strategic alliance formation process by employing the ARCTIC framework. The current research provides a new empirical application of the ARCTIC framework to reveal the success factors of reciprocal synergies of the...

The occurrence of the COVID-19 pandemic revealed many weaknesses in the functioning of businesses. It turns out that managers are not prepared to manage the enterprise's resources in a high-risk environment. Considering risk managers' issues requires reaching for theoretical and practical...

The purpose of this research is (1) to examine the integration impact of IT assets (e.g., intangible IT resources, IT capability, and IT flexibility) on core competency, and (2) to explore the mediating effect of core competency on the relationship between IT assets and sustainable competitive...

This academic article aimed 1) to review the literature relating to variables affecting core competencies of salesmanship in the non-life insurance business in Thailand to promote success and competitive advantages of non-life insurance industry in Thailand 2) to use the results from the...

"This timely Companion analyses how corporate social responsibility (CSR) can accelerate the achievement of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Global experts from a wide range of disciplines develop a flexible, diverse, and reconstructed form of CSR and illustrate how it can help...

The Concept of Innovation System -- Enterprise Innovation System -- Innovation Ecosystem -- Enterprise Innovation Ecosystem Based on Core Competence -- Case Study on Enterprise Innovation Ecosystem Based on Core Competence - International Part -- Case Study on Enterprise Innovation Ecosystem...

Duty of the Times: Development of a World Power in Science and Technology Innovation, and Theories of Innovation -- East Meets West: Dialogue between Classical and New Innovation Theories -- China's Innovation Theories: Emergence of Holistic Innovation -- Innovation Paradigm in the New Era:...