This paper identifies the salient features of feedforward control and the advantages that it provides vis-à-vis feedback control. These advantages are especially salient in strategic control situations and also during periods of environmental turbulence and extreme strategic discontinuity....

Purpose - This research aims to identify the optimal configuration of investment which leads firms to their best competitive positions, considering the degree of concentration in the market. Design/methodology/approach - The methodology was quantitative and based on secondary data with samples...

This study investigates the relationship between market competition (MC) and business strategy by analyzing data from 562 non-financial companies listed on the Vietnamese stock market between 2010 and 2019. Utilizing the Generalized Method of Moments (GMM), we assess the impact of MC on specific...

Objective: The aim of the article is to examine the interplay among dynamic capabilities, digitalization, and competitive advantage, with a specific focus on exploring the mediating influence of digitalization in the relationship between dynamic capabilities and competitive advantage among small...

Consumers are interested in sustainable products but they exhibit wariness about their efficacy resulting in a reluctance to purchase. Consumers perceive a high level functional risk in utilitarian benefits sustainable alternatives can provide. For that reason, communication strategy is...

Competition is the catalyst of corporate innovation, which is the foundation of a country's core competitiveness. From the view of vertical industrial chain, this paper examines how downstream competition affects upstream firms' innovation output. Given innovation helps reduce the production...

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...

There are studies investigating a country's digital competitiveness; however, there is a lack of research examining digital competitiveness at the enterprise level. Hence, the current study aims at composing an enterprise digital competitiveness index (EDCI), which provides a possibility to...

In the eight decades since researchers started to explore the possibility that firms' responsibilities extended beyond the interests of shareholders, research on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has ballooned. The number of calls for more research on a steadily growing number of CSR-related...

The competitive dynamics of strategic groups perform a major role in shaping the competitive background of industries. Strategic groups are sets of companies within an industry that follow related strategies or have comparable characteristics, such as product offerings, target markets, or...

Non-alcoholic wines have become increasingly important in recent years in Germany. A constant stream of new market players and products is evidence of a dynamic market development and for the creation of a new branch in the highly competitive wine sector. Thus, the central aim of this article is...

How does foreign competition affect incumbent firms’ external growth strategies? We find firms respond to reductions in U.S. import tariffs by opting for alliances over acquisitions. Consistent with alliances being less costly and more flexible, this effect is more pronounced among firms with...

This paper investigates the accuracy of target costing estimations in the international firms based on the absorption costing income statement, for the purpose of allowing external users in addition to internal users to make investing and financial decisions. I use three holt winters...