Generating Competitive Advantages for the Polytechnic Universities in Mexico

2019 ◽  
pp. 477-507
Author(s):  
Lizbeth Vargas-Cabrera ◽  
Jesus Manuel Muñoz-Pacheco
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Superior Performance ◽  
Educational Services ◽  
Opportunity Costs ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Sustainable Competitive Advantage ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Mexican Government

This chapter proposes an analytical framework to understand the trade-offs of a firm dedicated to educational services for creating and sustaining a superior performance respect to its competitors. The proposed approach focuses on polytechnic universities as the firm understudy. Based on a statistical data from Mexican government, the five forces of Porter methodology is applied to found the clients, suppliers, new entrants, substitutes, and rivalry of the Polytechnic University of Puebla (PUP). In this scenario, the existing strengths are detected and the target of the firm to get a sustainable competitive advantage is defined. Finally, the strategies to break the barriers are proposed. The authors argue that by using those strategies the wedge between willing to pay of the clients and the opportunity costs of the suppliers can be improved. Additionally, they argue that the positioning (consolidation and reputation) of the PUP is achieved by applying the proposed strategies.

Climate change and business planning: solutions to keep disruptions at bay

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chethan D. Srikant ◽  
Atul Teckchandani
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Integrative Approach ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Sustainable Competitive Advantage ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Fifth Dimension ◽  
Physical Assets ◽  
Climate Change Resilience

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop an integrative approach to help firms across multiple industries ensure operational continuity and manage ongoing climate-change related disruptions. It provides an implementation model that would first, help firms recognize this as an issue and second, start incorporating certain practices in their decision-making processes. Design/methodology/approach The analytical framework in this paper is based on the strategic management’s resource-based view. According to this view, certain resources provide sustainable competitive advantages because they score high on the following four dimensions: valuable, rare, inimitable and organized to exploit. This paper introduces a fifth dimension – the climate change resilience of the resource. Resources that are not always obvious choices for providing competitive advantages – air, freshwater, workspaces and customers – are evaluated. Each resource is analyzed through the perspective of two disparate industries. Findings This paper highlights to two important findings. First, resources that are rarely considered as providing competitive advantage can become important when the authors add the fifth dimension – climate change resilience. Second, location choices are critical to ensuring climate change resilience. When firms are location constrained, a contingency plan needs to be in place. These contingency plans could range from redesigning physical assets to redesigning human resources practices. Originality/value This paper illustrates the need and the utility of climate change resilience when assessing the sustainable competitive advantage of a resource. Using the above findings, this paper develops a model for implementing a location-based strategy, which firms in any industry could adopt to ensure the climate change resilience of their resources.

scholarly journals Creating better humans towards sustainable competitive advantage for small and medium-sized accounting firms in Malaysia

2018 ◽  
Vol 56 ◽  
pp. 04006
Author(s):  
Louis Lim Vui Han ◽  
Vijayesvaran Arumugam ◽  
Lawrence Arokiasamy
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
Superior Performance ◽  
Sustainable Competitive Advantage ◽  
Contributing Factors ◽  
Accounting Firms ◽  
Accounting Scandals ◽  
The World ◽  
Long Term Impact ◽  
Almost All

This study will be a bit different than others in the sense that it pierces directly into the human hearts. The world current economy is full of mysterious and uncertainty. There are plenty of different perspectives, but who can guarantee that they are right? The root of the problems of all issues generally come from the human heart or action. If we able to deal with human issues, it sorts out almost all the problems. The purpose of this study is to determine the contributing factors towards the sustainable competitive advantage (SCA) of small and medium-sized accounting firms (SMPs) in Malaysia. It aims to have a long-term impact on the prospects for the practitioners and the accounting professions. It becomes an attention to the world when numerous accounting scandals being published, and they jeopardized the accounting professions’ reputations. There are a few undisclosed cases especially it dealt with compliance, corporate tax, GST, money laundering and other issues, not only in Malaysia but in other countries as well. As such, the study focuses on creating better humans. Key findings from the literature highlighted the deficiencies in the core competencies of the firms. They are related to human capital and most of the researchers pinpointed the importance of knowledge, skills, capabilities in which it links to competencies in the corporate environment. The resource-based view of the firm is a common theory used by researchers as a mean of explaining competitive advantage and superior performance amongst the firms. And most of them stress the necessity to meet customer needs and expectation to create a sustainable competitive advantage.

scholarly journals ANALYSIS OF THE COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE SUSTAINABILITY FACTORS BASED ON THE KEY COMPETENCIES OF AN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING ENTERPRISE

2020 ◽  
pp. 134-141
Author(s):  
S. B. Moiseev
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Organizational Development ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Sustainable Competitive Advantage ◽  
Evolutionary Mechanisms ◽  
Industrial Companies ◽  
Key Competencies ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Engineering Enterprise

The factors influencing the possibility of the theory of key competencies adaptation within the traditional ideas of the resource approach to ensure the long-term competitiveness of companies have been considered. For this purpose, the review of features of application of key competencies during the formation of strategies of the industrial companies of mature sectors of industries has been carried out, in which thanks to action of evolutionary mechanisms of technological and organizational development there are objective preconditions for creation of steady competitive advantages on their basis. The necessity of development of methodological approaches to the formation of company’s competitive strategy in the sector of electrical production based on the formation of organizational-economic mechanism of adaptation to external influences and internal changes to manage the development of key competencies as factors of sustainable competitive advantage in the future and the formation of long-term effective business development model of the enterprise, has been substantiated.

scholarly journals The challenges of creating sustainable competitive advantage in large B2B multidivisional corporations

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 1188
Author(s):  
Isis Cassia Vannucci de Oliveira Koelle ◽  
Cristiane De Paula Bueno ◽  
Daniel Estima de Carvalho ◽  
Leandro Fraga Guimaraes
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Corporate Strategy ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Sustainable Competitive Advantage ◽  
Doing Business ◽  
Sustainable Competitive Advantages ◽  
The Way

It addresses the challenges that large multi-divisional B2B corporations face each day to take advantage of their corporate strategy and ensure sustainable competitive advantages. The synergies and interrelations that would give them such a position are not always simple to be achieved or even perceived by customers. The chosen approach was focused on B2B companies, because processes and communication tend to be more truncated, as they are usually more technical in the way of doing business. This can make the challenges of interrelation and synergy even greater.

scholarly journals Competitive Advantages of the Chinese Economy: Experience for Russia

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 299-307
Author(s):  
Maria Balashova ◽  
Anastasiia Trufanova
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Chinese Economy ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Sustainable Competitive Advantage ◽  
Resource Base ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
International Economic Relations ◽  
National Economies

The article intends to consider the principle of the world economy evolution which is evidence that the competitive advantages of countries have always taken priority over the comparative ones, nature-driven growth reserves of national economies. Initially, a special role in their generation and ongoing improvement was played by the ability of domestic economic actors, including the state itself, to be able to create products with higher added value in order to achieve goals within the framework of the formulated strategies on the basis of their own resource base. The study revealed that over the years, practice has shown that a unique position in the system of international economic relations can be achieved by those countries that form their own competitive advantage through the use of foreign resource base, while maintaining domestic resource factors of production. The text refers to China which is a good example of a country that has followed this path and was able to form a sustainable competitive advantage, whose experience could be useful for Russia.

scholarly journals Product differentiation policy of the construction firm

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-63
Author(s):  
Aneta Marichova
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Product Differentiation ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Sustainable Competitive Advantage ◽  
Construction Company ◽  
Construction Market ◽  
Market Product ◽  
Construction Firm ◽  
Product And Process ◽  
Construction Product

Abstract Usually, the possibility of product differentiation of the construction company is defined as restricted, limited. Product differentiation as a key element of product policy aims to create a sustainable competitive advantage in the minds of consumers, using tangible and intangible characteristics and product properties compared to the next strongest competitor. The ability of any company to differentiate their own product makes it distinct from competitors and gives the opportunity to control the market and build competitive advantages. The aim of the study is to prove: 1) The need to differentiate the product of the construction company, 2) Guidelines for differentiation of the construction product taking into accounts the specifics of the construction market, product and process.

scholarly journals Factors Affecting on Gaining a Sustainable Competitive Advantage for Sri Lankan Higher Educational Institutes

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 106
Author(s):  
Liyanachchi Mahesha Harshani De Silva ◽  
Charith D. Chitraranjan
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Sri Lankan ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Sustainable Competitive Advantage ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Student Teacher Relationship ◽  
Good Reputation

Over the past few years, number of seats has grown significantly in Higher Education Institutes (HEI), thus it becomes prudent to look at the ways of improving decision making of the HEI. Thus, the aim of this study is to investigate factors affecting the sustainable competitive advantage. Since literature does not support strong underpinnings in this area, an exploratory and grounded theory-based study was designed to conduct this study. The main contribution of this research is that we propose factors to consider for an HEI to achieve sustainable competitive advantage. Our findings indicate that proper student-teacher relationship, maintaining good reputation, maintaining a high rank and good indexing’s, maintain good relationships with industries, student participation in competitions, accreditation from reputable institutions are the most significant factors affecting the sustainable competitive advantage (AA) within Sri Lankan HEIs. To remain competitive and obtain competitive advantages, HEI decision makers can try to increase organizational performance by managing each dimension of core competence, i.e. Market profile; Innovation and Core Competencies.

Knowledge Assets and Value Creation Dynamics

2011 ◽  
pp. 30-49
Author(s):  
Karim Moustaghfir ◽  
Giovanni Schiuma
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Superior Performance ◽  
Sustainable Competitive Advantage ◽  
Knowledge Assets ◽  
Product Cycles ◽  
Continuous Innovation ◽  
Organisational Capabilities ◽  
Strategic Resources

Today’s business landscape is increasingly complex and turbulent, forcing firms to develop their capabilities in order to be able to face macro-forces such as globalization, hyper-competition, reduced product cycles and continuous innovation. In such a competitive scenario, firms have to identify and manage the crucial resources and sources for competitive advantage. The management literature has identified knowledge assets as critical drivers of performance and value creation. However, the understanding of how these strategic resources contribute to shape the organisational value creation dynamics still remains a concern to be fully disclosed. Especially the dynamic nature of knowledge assets and how they contribute to firm performance need to be clarified. This chapter, on the basis of a systematic literature review, aims to define a theoretical framework to explain how knowledge asset define the pillars to shape organisational capabilities and provide firms with a sustainable competitive advantage and long-term superior performance.

A Model for Doing Business in Africa

2014 ◽  
pp. 197-253
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Sustainable Competitive Advantage ◽  
Competitive Strategies ◽  
Strategic Positioning ◽  
Market Segments ◽  
Strategic Intent ◽  
Doing Business ◽  
Competitive Model ◽  
Corporate Level

The chapter focuses on developing a business and competitive model to create and successfully manage a business in Africa. This includes strategic positioning of a firm in a market, corporate-level and competitive strategies that firms need to develop in order to successfully create a sustainable competitive advantage in the industries, and market segments they will compete in. Strategy and strategic management are defined and described fully. The perspectives and paradigms of formulation, implementation, and evaluation of a strategic intent are fully explored and covered here including determining the sources of a sustainable competitive advantage for a firm in an industry through the creation of a variety of competitive advantages.

Does law as resource bring a competitive advantage to companies?

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando Teixeira ◽  
João J. Ferreira ◽  
Pedro Mota Veiga
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Structural Equation Model ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Sustainable Competitive Advantage ◽  
Business Law ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Law

Purpose Resources and their analysis are essential to understand better companies’ internal and external dynamics and the weight each has in obtaining competitive advantages over the competition. This study aims to address the law and legal knowledge as a fundamental resource for companies to succeed in the markets to obtain a sustainable competitive advantage. Design/methodology/approach Based upon a sample of 200 managers, a structural equation model was used to validate the hypotheses under study. Findings Results show awareness and managers’ perception of the importance of law as a resource and its advantages for companies and the dichotomy between recognising this importance and not using it consistently. Originality/value Knowing the scope of business law and its growing importance for companies and being academically aware of the inexistence of studies that analyse the law as an individualised resource for companies, this study has a crucial contribution to the interconnection of these two fields – business and law.

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