Purpose ? Competitive advantage is an important construct in the strategy discipline. The purpose of this paper is to explore an appropriate definition of competitive advantage, seek to identify sources of competitive advantage for firms and improve understanding of why in many industries for...

There is a long history of studies of the contentious strategic planning - performance relationship. However in the 1980s and 1990s the strategy literature moved on with the writing of Kenichi Ohmae, Henry Mintzberg and other experts to argue the need for more effective strategic thinking to...

With recent allegations against Sucurency a Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) currency subsidiary involving bribes to secure contracts as well as the conviction of Rio Tinto's Stern Hu in China for bribery and industrial espionage, critical questions relating to ethical business practice continue...