This paper aims at establishing the existence of systematic differences in the nature of competitive strategies available to individual firms across industries. By means of qualitative content analysis, we extracted a matrix of 76 industries times 12 strategies reported as being characteristic...

Statistical cluster techniques are applied in the development of two new taxonomies of manufacturing industries. The first focuses on the distinction between exogenous, location dependent comparative cost advantages, such as the relative abundance of capital or labour, and endogenously created...

Die Kompetenzsteuerung in Teams sieht sich zwei zentralen Herausforderungen gegenüber: Herausforderung der Kreativität: Wie können in Innovationsteams die Fähigkeiten einzelner Teammitglieder effizient mit den Fähigkeiten der anderen Teammitglieder verknüpft werden? Herausforderung der...