scholarly journals Absorptive Capabilities and Competitive Advantage: The Linkage

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 164-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Orlando Rua
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Management ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Small Firm ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Cost Leadership ◽  
Multiple Factors ◽  
Management Literature

The main goal of this study is to analyze the influence of absorptive capabilities on competitive advantage. Based on survey data from 247 Portuguese small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) findings suggest that: Acquisition, assimilation and exploitation’s absorptive capabilities are positively associated with cost leadership; Transformation’s absorptive capabilities are not positively associated with cost leadership; Acquisition and transformation’s absorptive capabilities are positively associated with differentiation; and Assimilation and exploitation’s absorptive capabilities are not positively associated with differentiation.This study deepens our understanding and provides novel insights into strategic management literature, since it combines multiple factors and has obtained the importance of each construct in SMEs business competitive advantage. Moreover, this paper presents further evidences of the strategies that small firm managers should pursue and policy makers should promote.

Linking Intangible Resources and Competitive Advantage

2019 ◽  
pp. 307-319
Author(s):  
Orlando Lima Rua
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Management ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Significant Influence ◽  
Textile Industry ◽  
Quantitative Approach ◽  
Business Growth ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Cost Leadership ◽  
Multiple Factors ◽  
Intangible Resources

The purpose of this chapter is to analyze the linkage between intangible resources and competitive advantage. The author uses a quantitative approach based on a survey data from 247 Portuguese small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from the textile industry. Findings suggest that intangible resources have a positive and significant influence on competitive advantage, either by cost leadership or differentiation. This chapter presents further evidences of the strategies that SMEs managers should pursue and policy makers should promote. This study deepens our understanding and provides novel insights into strategic management literature, since it combines multiple factors and has obtained the importance of each construct in SMEs business growth.

Export Performance

2019 ◽  
pp. 269-281
Author(s):  
Orlando Lima Rua
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Management ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Significant Influence ◽  
Textile Industry ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Export Performance ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Business Growth ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Multiple Factors

The purpose of this chapter is to analyze the influence of absorptive capabilities on export performance. The author uses a quantitative research approach by conducting a study based on a survey data from 247 Portuguese small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from the textile industry. Findings suggest that absorptive capabilities have a positive and significant influence on export performance. This chapter presents further evidences of the strategies that SMEs managers should pursue and policy makers should promote. This study deepens our understanding and provides novel insights into strategic management literature, since it combines multiple factors and has obtained the importance of each construct in SMEs business growth.

scholarly journals The Linkage Between Intangible Resources and Export Performance: the Mediating Effect of Innovation

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 399-410
Author(s):  
Orlando Lima Rua ◽  
Alexandra França
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Management ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Export Performance ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Business Growth ◽  
Multiple Factors ◽  
Intangible Resources ◽  
Management Literature ◽  
The Relationship

This paper develops a framework to test the relationship between intangible resources and export performance, considering the mediating effect of innovation. Based on survey data from Portuguese small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) exporting footwear findings suggest that: (1) innovation has a direct and positive influence on export performance; and (2) innovation does have a mediating effect on the relationship between intangible resources and export performance. This study deepens our understanding and provides novel insights into strategic management literature, since it combines multiple factors and has obtained the importance of each construct in SMEs business growth.

Achieving a Sustainable Competitive Advantage: A Resource-Based View of Sport Sponsorship

1997 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Amis ◽  
Narayan Pant ◽  
Trevor Slack
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Management ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Sustainable Competitive Advantage ◽  
Sport Sponsorship ◽  
Resource Based View ◽  
Great Utility ◽  
Management Literature ◽  
International Companies

This study demonstrates that a recent development in the strategic management literature, the resource-based view of the firm, has great utility for furthering our understanding of sport sponsorship. The paper provides a theoretical framework to explain the application of the approach to sponsorship. Illustration and greater insight are then provided through the presentation of two case studies. These are used to identify the salient characteristics of agreements made by two international companies, each of which has been extensively involved in sport sponsorship but with varying degrees of success. The resource-based approach is used to demonstrate that the disparate returns of the companies' sponsorship investments could have been anticipated. As such, as well as providing a conceptual extension to the sponsorship literature, the paper also offers a route for more empirical analyses of potential sponsorship opportunities.

scholarly journals From Sustainable to Transient Competitive Advantage

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 134-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tsvetana Stoyanova ◽  
Miglena Angelova
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Management ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Dynamic Environment ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Sustainable Competitive Advantage ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
Management Literature ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient

Abstract The concept of competitive advantage is central for the strategic management literature. The researchers` ideas in this field are broad and comprehensive - from an attempts to define and measure the advantage, through its sources, to the complex of conditions that presuppose its existence at all, and its preservation for a longer period. The activities to protect it in a highly dynamic environment are a great challenge. This makes the topic of the necessary and sufficient requirements that the sources of competitive advantage have to meet in order to ensure its sustainability. Studying the conditions needs the sustainability to be defined, and with respect to the requirements of dynamism coming from the outside environment. The purpose of this article is to study, systematize and summarize existing scientific opinions about the conditions that ensure the sustainability for the competitive advantage and to identify the reasons for moving to its flexibility. In order to achieve this objective, it is necessary to fulfil the following tasks: - to consider the prerequisites for sustainability and to derive a definition of "sustainable competitive advantage"; - to highlight the specific features of the transitional competitive advantages; - to indicate the implementation of the two concepts in business organizations

Deploying the Internet for Leveraging Strategic Assets

2010 ◽  
pp. 265-289
Author(s):  
Frank Schlemmer ◽  
Brian Webb
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Small Firm ◽  
Small Firms ◽  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Strategic Assets ◽  
Business Resources

SMEs frequently suffer from resource poverty. The authors suggest that the Internet can be used to leverage their strategic assets and propose a theoretical framework with the independent variables business resources, dynamic capabilities and IT assets. Survey data of 146 small firms suggest that the Internet is complementary with business resources and dynamic capabilities but not with IT assets. This research may enable small firm managers to create competitive advantage by identifying strategic assets that are complementary with the Internet. Furthermore, the authors highlight the threat of an over-investment in IT assets at SMEsi.

Materialism and Green Purchase Intention: A Study of Urban Vietnamese Consumers

2017 ◽  
pp. 89-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mai Nguyen Thi Tuyet ◽  
Hung Nguyen Vu ◽  
Linh Nguyen Hoang ◽  
Minh Nguyen Hoang
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Purchase Intention ◽  
Behavioral Control ◽  
Subjective Norm ◽  
Perceived Behavioral Control ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Tpb Model ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The Impact

This study focuses on examining the impact of three components of materialism on green purchase intention for urban consumers in Vietnam, an emerging economy. An extended Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) is applied as the conceptual framework for this study. The hypotheses are empirically tested using survey data obtained from consumers in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam. The regression results show support for most of our hypotheses. The findings indicate that two out of three facets of materialism are significant predictors of green purchase intention. Specifically, success is found to be negatively related to purchase intention, while happiness is related positively to the intention. All three antecedents in the TPB model, including attitude towards green purchase, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control are also found to have positive impacts on purchase intention. The research findings are discussed and implications for managers and policy makers are provided.

Intervention by Outsiders: A Strategic Management Perspective on Government Industrial Policy

1993 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Romano Dyerson ◽  
Frank Mueller
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Strategic Management ◽  
Industrial Policy ◽  
Financial Control ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Management Perspective ◽  
British Experience ◽  
The Government

ABSTRACTAs the debate throughout the eighties has concluded, the efforts of governments to intervene at the firm level has largely been disappointing. Using two examples drawn from the British experience, Rover and Inmos, this paper offers an analysis as to why the Government has encountered difficulties when it has sought to intervene in a strategic fashion. Essentially, public policy makers lack adequate mechanisms to intervene effectively in technology-based companies. Locked out of the knowledge base of the firm, inappropriate financial control is imposed which reinforces the ‘outsider’ status of the Government. Having addressed the limitations of strategic intervention, the paper, drawing on the comparative experience of other countries, then goes on to address how this policy boundary might be pushed back in the long term.

scholarly journals The role of uniqueness in destination branding: the case of historical Portsmouth harbor

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 198-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandros Apostolakis ◽  
Shabbar Jaffry ◽  
Faye Sizeland ◽  
Adam Cox
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
Destination Branding ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Content Type ◽  
City Brand ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Local Resources

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the potential for utilizing a unique resource, such as the Historic Portsmouth Harbor, in order to differentiate the local brand. Design/methodology/approach – The objective of the paper is to examine the role of unique local resources and attractions as a source of competitive advantage through destination branding. Findings – The main findings of the paper indicate that policy makers and destination managers should more proactively utilize the unique elements of the Historic Portsmouth Harbor “brand,” as opposed to the commonplace “waterfront city” brand. This could be achieved by staging events of international significance or through a bid for gaining world heritage status. In addition to that, the paper argues that in order for this branding initiative to have a higher impact, a prominent high profile individual should be appointed. This individual could act as a leader or “brand ambassador” in order to attract stakeholder interest and participation. Originality/value – The paper could be of value to destination managers and marketing organizations in a local, sub-regional and regional level.

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