Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The Business Landscape: Unpacking the idea of ‘domain specificity’ -- Chapter 3: The Conventional Wisdom in Strategy -- Chapter 4: Strategic Optionality: Introducing the Idea -- Chapter 5: Optionality and Innovation: Two sides of the Same Coin? --...

"This new book explores how firms achieve competitive advantage in a disruptive, digital, and globalised 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,...

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Figures and Table -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- A note on the case studies -- Note -- 2 Globalization, digitization and disruptive uncertainty -- Global flows, barriers and expeditors -- Barriers and...

1. Introduction to Entrepreneurial Universities: Creating Institutional Innovation in Times of Turbulence -- 2. The Status of Innovation in Africa’s Development Strategy: Where should Science and Technology Fit in? -- 3. Commercialisation of Science at British Universities -- 4. Research,...

This paper argues that sufficient diversity in university models in a country can ensure that different innovation inputs that are possible from the country’s university sector are effectively met. The paper suggests that diversity in university models can be thought in terms of different...