Zusammenfassung Sich ständig ändernde Kundenbedürfnisse und Anforderungen verlangen laufend nach technischen Innovationen und der Adaptierung bestehender Systeme. Mit diesem Artikel wird die neuartige Network Connected Disc (n-CD) −eine individualisierbare Disc mit implementierten...

People engage in helping behavior for a variety of reasons. Currently unstudied, however, is the role that group stigmatization may play in motivating this helping behavior. Increased perceptions or feelings of stigma have been shown to increase identification with one's group identity through...

Abstract Since it was first agreed in the autumn of 1998, the English Compact has achieved international status, as a marker of – or vehicle for - a new and improved relationship between the state and the third sector. Over the twelve years or so since its first publication, it has been...

Abstract In the post-2016 election period, nonprofit institutions, particularly charities, might react to new challenges in more than a defensive way. Opportunities include much greater self-examination of ways to enhance the effectiveness of their own actions and making trade-offs in the...

Main objective of this article is investigating the role of Porter's competitive strategies (differentiation, cost reduction and focus) to increase the competitiveness and eventually gain competitive advantage. This study is a cross-sectional survey that is conducted in 2017. The study...

Competitive advantage (CA) arises from a firm's attributes that allow one firm to create better customer value than others. Organizations of all sectors of the economy believe that sustainability is a way to achieve a differential advantage. CA is recognised as being the major cause for...

When a firm sustains profits that exceed the average for its industry, the firm is said to possess a competitive advantage over its rivals. So, why do some companies outperform others? This question has been intensely debated by strategic management researchers over the last decades. Several...