Purpose. The purpose of his paper is to investigate how organisations use a corporate real estate strategy to support their competitive strategy. It provides a theoretical and empirical overview and analysis of effective combinations of firms' real estate- and competitive strategies....

Recent research in marketing has focused on cross-category variation in the market share of private label products, while recent work in the economics and industrial organization literature has focused on the determinants of firm price setting behavior. In this paper, the authors develop a...

Purpose – The paper aims at developing a theoretical model for de facto dollarized small open economies focusing on currency substitution and nominal wages indexation to the exchange rate. Design/methodology/approach – The analysis is performed in a general equilibrium “New Open Economy...

Purpose – This study seeks to analyse the relation between technology, competitiveness and specialisation in OECD manufacturing. Design/methodology/approach – A regression analysis is first performed explaining the disaggregate manufacturing relative value added market share performance of a...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to integrate the corporate market and non-market behaviors (such as social, legal, and political activities) into the research of competitive interaction. Design/methodology/approach – “Structured content analysis” is used in analyzing the...

Purpose – Quality and business excellence awards that recognize excellent organizational performance have become a major driving force in enhancing the competitiveness of Indian firms in the global economy. While the frameworks underlying these awards have been used extensively by...

The sources of competitive advantage in cooperative enterprises have received much less attention from the academic community than those in conventional capitalist companies. Moreover, in this area of research (the competitive advantage in cooperatives), Information Technologies play an...

Without insisting on arguments brought in a different paper in favor of such an idea (Tachiciu and Popescu, 2007), here one should take as a premise the fact that for Romania it is not only possible, but also necessary to combine the catch-up process aiming at reducing the development gap, with...

To what extent do firms engage in product line actions simultaneously with actions in other marketing variables? What are the determinants of product line actions? To what extent are product line actions proactive? To what degree are they reactive? How can a firm's product line action elasticity...