Competitiveness Review: Volume 23 Issue 3

Global economic challenges: the pressing and visible issues

Abbas J. Ali

This paper aims to identify the economic challenges that nations and the international community must grapple with. It also clarifies certain factors that could ease the…

Innovation in clusters: effects of absorptive capacity and environmental moderators

Markus Kohlbacher, Doris Weitlaner, Arno Hollosi, Stefan Grünwald, Hans‐Peter Grahsl

This paper aims to empirically explore the impact of absorptive capacity (AC) on explorative and exploitative innovation in business cluster settings, and the environment's…

Lean production and business performance: international empirical results

Dávid Losonci, Krisztina Demeter

This paper aims to identify factors that considerably impact business performance of lean manufacturers (companies with extensive use of lean tools and excellent operational…

An analysis of the telecommunication industry in the Sultanate of Oman using Michael Porter's competitive strategy model

James Rajasekar, Mueid Al Raee

Michael Porter's Five Forces Model provides an ideal mechanism and framework to study the Oman telecommunications industry's competitive structure. The purpose of this paper is to…

Intellectual capital: company's invisible source of competitive advantage

Nixon Kamukama

The purpose of this paper is to examine the individual contribution of intellectual capital elements to competitive advantage. It aims to explore the extent to which intellectual…

Corporate social responsibility: Perception, practices and performance of listed companies of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Nisar Ahamad Nalband, Mohammed S. Al‐Amri

The world is becoming global, digital, health conscious and spiritual. In this new and evolving international environment with a large private sector and global integration of…

Antifragile Things That Gain From Disorder

Deepak Subedi

Reverse innovation: create Far from Home, Win Everywhere

Srikant Amnaganti, Prageetha G. Raju