Competitive advantage: creating and sustaining superior performance
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...For regulators, this poses a question of where to impose regulations in the chain of production from raw materials, equipment, the producer of the end product, to the consumer (Porter, 1985)....
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...Porter (1985) provided the dominant typology of competitive strategies in the business policy literature; the types specified are cost leadership, differentiation, and focus....
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...…management practices can help to create a source of sustained competitive advantage, especially when they are aligned with a firm’s competitive strategy (Begin, 1991; Butler, Ferris, & Napier, 1991; Cappelli& Singh, 1992; Jackson& Schuler, 1995; Porter, 1985; Schuler, 1992; Wright & McMahan, 1992)....
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...This literature, although largely conceptual, concludes that human resource management practices can help to create a source of sustained competitive advantage, especially when they are aligned with a firm’s competitive strategy (Begin, 1991; Butler, Ferris, & Napier, 1991; Cappelli& Singh, 1992; Jackson& Schuler, 1995; Porter, 1985; Schuler, 1992; Wright & McMahan, 1992)....
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...The benefits of volume and experience provide early movers with a competitive edge not easily erased (Porter, 1985; MacMillan and McCaffrey, 1984)....
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...The focus on openness and interaction in studies of innovation reflects a wider trend in studies of firm behavior that suggest that the network of relationships between the firm and its external environment can play an important role in shaping performance. For instance, Shan et al. (1994) find an association between cooperation and innovative output in biotechnology start-up firms....
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...1 However, a very similar variable to that of the variable measuring search breadth has been used by Laursen & Salter (2003) as a predictor of the propensity of firms to use knowledge developed at universities....
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...Some firms suffer from the problems highlighted by Koput (1997), extending themselves too far in efforts to...
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