Roots Of Competitiveness
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Roots Of Competitiveness
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Author : Daniel H Rosen
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2004-07-29
Roots Of Competitiveness written by Daniel H Rosen and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-07-29 with Political Science categories.
It is a cliché that China is the world's manufactured goods factory, but most observers are just as certain that China's farmers are a serious burden on growth. Yet China in fact has the makings of an internationally competitive agricultural sector, with the market setting most prices, farmers shifting quickly toward what they produce best, and significant research and development focused on biotechnology and other promising areas. China's trade interests are changing as its farmers become more competitive, and this transformation will have major implications for world trade talks and global economic welfare. This study traces the steps China has taken to make agriculture a winning sector, the evidence that its initiatives are working, and the course the country is likely to take.
Untangling The Origins Of Competitive Advantage Classic Reprint
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Author : Iain Cockburn Cockbum
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-08-05
Untangling The Origins Of Competitive Advantage Classic Reprint written by Iain Cockburn Cockbum and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-05 with Business & Economics categories.
Excerpt from Untangling the Origins of Competitive Advantage What are the origins of competitive advantage? Although this question is fundamental to strategy research, it is one to which we lack a clear answer. As strategy researchers we believe that some firms consistently outperform others, and we have some evidence consistent with this belief (Rumelt, 1991; McGahan and Porter, 1997). We also have a number of well developed theories as to why, at any given moment, it is possible for some firms (and some industries) to earn supranormal returns. As of yet, however, we have no generally accepted theory - and certainly no systematic evidence - as to the origins or the dynamics of such differences in performance. We know, for example, why high barriers to entry coupled with a differentiated product positioning obtained through unique organizational competencies may provide a firm with competitive advantage. But we know much less about how barriers to entry are built: about why this firm and not that one developed the competencies that underlie advantage, and about the dynamic process out of which competitive advantage first arises and then erodes over time. This conceptual ambiguity has always been problematic for many economists, who have tended to view persistent differences in performance as a function of "unobserved heterogeneity" (Mundlak, 1961; Gnliches, 1986).For example, empirical work in industrial organization routinely controls for "firm fixed effects." These are usually statistically significant and often account for a substantial fraction of the total variation in firm productivity or performance. Whereas strategy researchers tend to emphasize the degree to which these kinds of results offer support for the importance of "capabilities" or "positioning" (Rumelt, 1991;Henderson and Cockbum, 1994; McGahan and Porter, 1997; Lieberman and Dhawan, 2000), economists tend to emphasize the possibility that fixed effects are simply controlling for a series of much more mundane measurement problems, ranging from the difficulty of computing appropriately depreciated capital stocks and of measuring firm-specific input and output price schedules, to the problem of controlling for difficult-to-observe factors such as worker effort or worker quality. In short, the evidence which strategy researchers view as the motivation for their intellectual agenda are interpreted by many economists in terms of "nuisance" parameters - things which must be controlled for but which are not of intrinsic interest. This implicit critique has been reinforced by theoretical and empirical research in the tradition of population ecology (see for example Hannan and Freeman, 1989). In summarizing the contributions of this literature and its application to strategy, Stinchcombe (2000)charges that the preponderance of strategy scholars have simply failed to understand (and certainly to systematically account for) the implications of population dynamics for performance heterogeneity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Competitiveness And American Society
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Author : Steven L. Goldman
language : en
Publisher: Lehigh University Press
Release Date : 1993
Competitiveness And American Society written by Steven L. Goldman and has been published by Lehigh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Business & Economics categories.
"The claim that U.S. industry is in a crisis - that it stands at a turning point in its competitiveness with foreign rivals - seems on the face of it an objective description of the prevailing state of affairs. But what does "competitiveness" mean when it is used to describe an entire industry, an economy, a nation? What is the relationship between industrial competitiveness and the personal and social value placed on competition? What are the social roots of competition that have made it an enduring American value? How does the current competitiveness debate serve special interests seeking to preserve or extend their social power? The essays presented in Competitiveness and American Society, all written especially for this volume, address these and related questions. The answers they offer reveal the political character of the competitiveness debate, as well as the complexity and ambiguity of the value judgments with which competitiveness issues are entangled." "The perspectives taken by the authors range from the austerely economic, through the political and managerial, to the richly sociological. The opening essay rejects the possibility, let alone the factuality, of a national competitiveness crisis; the closing essay explicitly identifies the root causes of the crisis as national. Other essays look to relationships among culture, society, and industry in the U.S. and Japan as factors shaping America's competitiveness crisis, and the Western European response to that crisis. One essay explores mechanisms that would allow the public to play a constructive role in managerial decision-making; another explores the complications that have followed from mandating the management of resources in accordance with social values." "The common denominator of all of the essays is an engagement with the role that social value judgments play in determining the competitiveness of individual firms. For some, this role is broad and definitive; for others, it is narrowly circumscribed. Taken together, the essays in Competitiveness and American Society establish the need for wider participation in the debate over the competitiveness of U.S. industry than has been held so far. What is needed is a debate that addresses the quality of American life and the health of the industrial sector of the economy, a debate that opens for public deliberation the changes in personal and social values and institutions that will be required to shape that interdependence."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Untangling The Origins Of Competitive Advantage
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Author : Iain Cockburn
language : en
Publisher: Palala Press
Release Date : 2018-02-20
Untangling The Origins Of Competitive Advantage written by Iain Cockburn and has been published by Palala Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-20 with categories.
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Competitive Advantage
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Author : Michael E. Porter
language : en
Publisher: Free Press
Release Date : 1998-06-01
Competitive Advantage written by Michael E. Porter and has been published by Free Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-06-01 with Business & Economics categories.
The essential complement to the pathbreaking book Competitive Strategy, Michael E. Porter's Competitive Advantage explores the underpinnings of competitive advantage in the individual firm. Competitive Advantage introduces a whole new way of understanding what a firm does. Porter's groundbreaking concept of the value chain disaggregates a company into "activities," or the discrete functions or processes that represent the elemental building blocks of competitive advantage. Now an essential part of international business thinking, Competitive Advantage takes strategy from broad vision to an internally consistent configuration of activities. Its powerful framework provides the tools to understand the drivers of cost and a company's relative cost position. Porter's value chain enables managers to isolate the underlying sources of buyer value that will command a premium price, and the reasons why one product or service substitutes for another. He shows how competitive advantage lies not only in activities themselves but in the way activities relate to each other, to supplier activities, and to customer activities. Competitive Advantage also provides for the first time the tools to strategically segment an industry and rigorously assess the competitive logic of diversification. That the phrases "competitive advantage" and "sustainable competitive advantage" have become commonplace is testimony to the power of Porter's ideas. Competitive Advantage has guided countless companies, business school students, and scholars in understanding the roots of competition. Porter's work captures the extraordinary complexity of competition in a way that makes strategy both concrete and actionable.
Untangling The Origins Of Competitive Advantage
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Author : Iain M. Cockburn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-11-29
Untangling The Origins Of Competitive Advantage written by Iain M. Cockburn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-29 with Business & Economics categories.
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Top Class Competitors
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Author : Stephane Garelli
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2006-04-14
Top Class Competitors written by Stephane Garelli and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-04-14 with Business & Economics categories.
Competitiveness is a term much used but poorly defined. Nevertheless, it is a force that affects us all, and its goal is to raise prosperity. Building on the pioneering work of Michael Porter, A World of Competitiveness defines what competitiveness is - and is not.
Unlocking Strategic Innovation
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Author : Surja Datta
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-03-14
Unlocking Strategic Innovation written by Surja Datta and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-14 with Business & Economics categories.
This new book explores how firms achieve competitive advantage in a disruptive, digital and globalized business landscape. An integrative framework, ‘The Four Rs of Competitive Success’, is introduced, which covers the four core pillars of global strategy: resources and capabilities, technology and innovation (recombination), internationalization and international markets (reach), and physical and virtual location (roots). It then explains how competitive advantage is achieved through an interaction of these four drivers against the backdrop of a globalized and digitized world. It is uniquely practical in its approach, combining theoretical understanding with international case studies and real-life examples throughout each chapter, including Apple, IKEA and Microsoft. Unlocking Strategic Innovation is concise, applied reading for postgraduate students studying international business, corporate strategy, innovation and digital strategy, as well as academics in the field. It will also be important reading for practitioners looking to gain further understanding of how firms compete and flourish in a global and technology-driven environment.
Roots
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Author : Jun J. Abe
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2013-04-17
Roots written by Jun J. Abe and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-17 with Science categories.
The root is the organ that functions as the interface between the plant and the earth environment. Many human management practices involving crops, forests and natural vegetation also affect plant growth through the soil and roots. Understanding the morphology and function of roots from the cellular level to the level of the whole root system is required for both plant production and environmental protection. This book is at the forefront of plant root science (rhizology), catering to professional plant scientists and graduate students. It covers root development, stress physiology, ecology, and associations with microorganisms. The chapters are selected papers originally presented at the 6th Symposium of the International Society of Root Research, where plant biologists, ecologists, soil microbiologists, crop scientists, forestry scientists, and environmental scientists, among others, gathered to discuss current research results and to establish rhizology as a newly integrated research area.
Relational Contracts And The Roots Of Sustained Competitive Advantage
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Author : Rebecca M. Henderson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Relational Contracts And The Roots Of Sustained Competitive Advantage written by Rebecca M. Henderson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with categories.