Our aim in this paper is to examine and predict the behavior and the competitive interaction between leader and challenger firms. Specifically,we exploreperceptions of market leaders and challengerstowards competition. Second, we try to explain the influence of competitive actions on the nature...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate if the organization competitive orientation can really make firms emphasize different internal capability. This paper aims to revisit and extend the study proposed by Fleury and Fleury (2003). Design/methodology/approach – The survey...

Knowledge drives the growth of nations and regions in a competitive space-economy. Hence, we would expect a strong correlation between investments in R&D, knowledge and learning processes, on the one hand, and productivity increases, on the other. However, the empirical evidence shows consistent...