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Showing 1 to 20 of 874 for “"Competitive Advantage"”.
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Sustainable competitive advantage through information technology
… the difficulty of achieving sustainable competitive advantage through information technology. While information technology proliferates and innovations arise frequently, few companies have been able to use IT to remain leaders in their industries. Using a framework proposed by Michael …
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Enterprise Architecting for Tacit Knowledge Transfer: Sustaining Competitive Advantage:
… asset, and it is the main source of a firm’s competitive advantage. Up to 90% of organization knowledge exists in tacit form and is embedded deep within the employee’s mind; it is intuitive, unarticulated, and cannot be codified into explicit form. The tacit nature of such knowledge prevents …
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Leveraging global operations innovation to create sustainable competitive advantage
High fixed costs and the emergence of globalization have forced traditional domestic automotive mass producers to the brink of bankruptcy. This thesis focuses on the global growth strategy of a Tier 1 automotive supplier and examines causal relationships between that strategy and the system …
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Creating sustainable competitive advantage in the Norwegian defense industry
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1995.
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Information technology as competitive advantage in supply chain management
Thesis (S.M.M.O.T.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, Management of Technology Program, 1998.
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Migration strategies for competitive advantage of mobile network operators
… strategies, which allow them to sustain their competitive advantage. First, a migration model is proposed as a reinforcing loop model composed of two dynamics, "Platform Migration" caused by a shortage of network capacity, and "Service Innovation" triggered by a decline in ARPU (Average Revenue …
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Information technology and sustained competitive advantage : a research model for the effect of information technology on sustained competitive advantage and an empirical analysis
… to be a major factor for achieving sustained competitive advantage (SCA). The effect of IT on firm performance has been studied from two main perspectives: the market based perspective and the resource based view. The market based perspective emphasises market structure as the primary cause of …
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Competitive advantage of small and medium size enterprises in Palestine
… and quantitative research methods, the competitive advantages and distinctive competencies that determine success in firms established in Palestine before and after the Oslo Agreement. The study embraces two case analyses, indepth interviews of successful and less-successful firms and an …
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Utilising online shopping environment attributes holistically to create competitive advantage
… shopping environments (OSEs) can be used to gain competitive advantage. This dissertation aims to explain theoretically how OSE attributes work together holistically to produce desirable consumer responses, applying and extending a theory from the environmental psychology literature to the online …
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The competitive advantage : a case study of Taiwan's semiconductor industry
… factor for success. This thesis investigated the competitive advantages of Taiwanese semiconductor industry; specific areas of study included: ** The development of Taiwan's semiconductor industry, ** The competitive advantages of semiconductor companies in Taiwan, ** Evaluation of the competitive …
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Competitive advantage in the U.S. paper and paper products industry
… of the Chesapeake Corporation to define a new competitive positioning that will attract, satisfy, and retain the firm's customers. The overall objective is to develop the key elements of a new business strategy for Chesapeake upon which the business strategic agenda can be built. A new business …
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Technical competitive advantage--a study in the engineering services industry
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1987.
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Embedding sustainable strategies for competitive advantage in the UAE sports sector
… sports sector is embedding sustainability for competitive advantage. A mixed methodology of research was adopted to collect and analyse data. Descriptive analysis was used to analyse quantitative data obtained from 124 completed online survey questionnaires. The results were further augmented …
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The competitive advantage of velvet beans as an economic agricultural commodity
The competitive advantage of velvet beans as an economic agricultural commodity. In the past 40 years, although food insecurity, poverty and environmental degradation persist, worldwide farmers have made considerable progress in increasing per capita food production whilst better understanding …
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Competitive advantage in new markets: the case of on-line business
Understanding how firms gain competitive advantage is perhaps the central question faced by strategy researchers (Rouse and Daellenbach, 1999; Powell, 2001). An examination of competitive advantage within the context of new markets presents an important and interesting dimension of this problem. It …
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Using information technology to gain a competitive advantage in discrete manufacturing
Thesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering; in conjunction with the Leaders for Manufacturing Program at MIT, 2003.
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Evolutionary supply chain risk management : transforming culture for sustainable competitive advantage
… in business risk culture are required to achieve competitive advantage through supply chain risk management.
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The evolution matrix : navigating the competitive advantage and sustainability of outsourcing
The thesis addresses whether there is competitive advantage to outsourcing and whether outsourcing is sustainable. The reason, outsourcing (to foreign countries) has become an acerbic topic because the breadth of its impact has now reached all strata of society-from blue-collar to white-collar. Our …
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Regional competitive advantage and transportation planning : an extended ReS/SITE framework
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2001.
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Gaining a competitive advantage through market research into home buyer preferences
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1992.
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