Social media and other digital tools are fast-changing business processes from companies' marketing and communication to the selling of their products. Hence, many firms, including SMEs worldwide, adopt social media as a means of linking customers to their products. Notwithstanding the keen...

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...

Ambidexterity has been linked to firm structures that are typical of organizations with a larger size. However, further research is needed to analyze whether the effect of firm size on ambidexterity is contingent on other aspects. We argue that micro and small firms that have developed some...

This study proposes mechanisms for firms to thrive in a turbulent business environment by investigating the mediating role of frugal innovation in the relationship between competitive intelligence and value creation. The study also examined absorptive capacity as a critical boundary condition...

This report evaluates potential competition issues in the provision of publicly accessible recharging infrastructure and related services for electric vehicles (EVs) across the EU27 + UK. It develops a taxonomy of possible competition concerns and collates evidence on whether there are existing...

This study highlights the critical significance of competitive intelligence (CI) associated to the development of agile management practices within organizations. It is necessary to establish the scheme in order to identify the key characteristics that affect the degree to which management makes...

We study the costs and benefits of selling data to a competitor. Although selling all consumers' data may decrease total firm profits, there exist other selling mechanisms — in which only some consumers' data is sold — that render both firms better off. We identify the profit-maximizing...

The use of social media to collect non-business information and facilitate small talk and its significance has gone largely unnoticed in sales literature. Using the Similarity-Attraction theory, we examined a model in which a B2B salesperson's social media usage impacts salesperson performance...

Background: The article examines the adoption of competitive intelligence (CI) in Ghana's humanitarian sector, identifying barriers such as resource limitations and organizational challenges, while highlighting CI's potential to enhance decision-making, partnerships, and efficiency. Methods: The...

Managementinstrumente für Ihr strategisches Management -- Vorwort der Autorin -- Teil 1: Analyse des Umfeldes -- Umfeldanalyse -- PESTEL-Analyse -- Megatrend- und Technologieanalyse.-Branchenstrukturanalyse -- Industriekostenkurve -- Mitbewerberanalyse -- Teil 2: Analyse des Unternehmens --...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the mediating role of knowledge sharing on the relationship between competitive intelligence and product development. A cross-sectional design was used in this study. Using a random sample of 178 general managers from the chemical manufacturing sector...

This Article addresses an important question in modern antitrust: when large investment funds have holdings across an industry, is competition depressed?The question of the impact of common ownership on competition has gained much attention as the role of institutional shareholding has grown,...

The article presents a brief review of competitive intelligence as an essential tool of competitive analysis today. The authors show that the variety of methods for processing and analyzing intelligence data is overwhelming. It is up to the analyst to decide which methods to use in every...

Franchising organizations were prevalent for uniform offline stores, but nowadays they face severe challenges from third-party online competitors. While the literature mainly consists of studies that focus on within-franchise relationships and the encroachment of an individual franchisor's...

Concerns around the anti-competitive effects of common ownership by institutional investors in competing firms have previously been raised by scholars. Recent empirical evidence has further fueled the debate, causing the European Commission to use common ownership as an ‘element of context’...

Decision-making about startups' business models is highly dependent on available information, and the role of data analytics capabilities in business model innovation has been emphasized. Today's competitive intelligence tools such as Alexa, Google Analytics, Similarweb, NexLab TrackEngine, etc....

Vorwort -- Geleitwort -- Einleitung -- Teil 1: Optionen -- Produkt-Markt-Matrix (H. I. Ansoff) -- Wettbewerbsmatrix (M.E. Porter) -- Optionen-Box.-Merger & Akquisition Filter -- Substitutionszeitkurve. Länderfilter -- Optionenportfolio -- Teil 2: Strategie -- Geschäftsfeldstrategie --...

1. Foundations of Systematic Innovation -- 2. Motivation: The Desire to Innovate -- 3. Creativity: Problem – Novel Solution – Communication -- 4. Organization: Enabling Innovation -- 5. Change: The Second Side of the Coin -- 6. Benchmarking: Measuring Against the Best -- 7. Open Innovation &...

Introduction to Intelligence Studies in Business -- A short History of Intelligence in Organizations -- Environmental Scanning -- The Science of Intelligence Studies -- Intelligence Analysis -- The Intelligence Report -- Organizational Models for Information Gathering -- The Technology of...