This book addresses one of the most pervasive issues on the corporate agenda: staying competitive. Wharton on Dynamic Competitive Strategy is not only a source of ideas and concepts but a guide to help readers in today's marketplace.

Managing technology and globalization are two of the main concerns facing companies today. This book argues that the success of firms such as Ericsson and Nokia is a function of how they have managed these two areas simultaneously.

European manufacturing industries are changing fast. Amid the pressures of globalisation, emerging markets and shifting geographical patterns of consumption and production, competition and collaboration need to be redefined. The book contains roadmaps for survival in the emerging global competitive arena by and for practitioners, as well as concrete examples and theoretical studies across ...

Aims to develop an integrated approach to this topic, enabling students to analyze, rather than simply describe the business environment. Coverage includes the context in which companies operate and interpret the business environment, and the different components of the business environment.

Trust has become a much discussed, and sought-after, resource in the current business environment. The contributors to this volume shed new light on the role trust can play in and between organizations.

Contributions from leading international experts explore theoretical and methodological issues of practical relevance for the new competition policy order and give examples of practical policy adjustments.

Where economic activity will locate is one of the most important questions in economics. 'Global' competitiveness often depends on highly concentrated 'local' knowledge, capabilities and common tacit codes of behaviour which can be found in a geographical concentration (cluster) of firms.

A Radically Simplified Approach to Business Strategy.

A look at strategies for outsmarting the business competition. Using an integrated approach, strategy guru Liam Fahey brings together a series of analysis frameworks on how to identify current and future competitors, the competitor's mindset, and assessing the competitor's technology.

What do you really know about your competitors, and potential competitors? What are the real threats your business faces in the next two years? What do your competitors know about you, how did they find out about it and how can you stop them finding out more?

Compiles insights on a number of aspects linking sustainability performance, business competitiveness and economic success, in an attempt to provide a comprehensive view of this relationship. This work is useful for managers, academics, consultants, fund managers, governments and government agencies, NGOs and international bodies.

An analysis of how UK companies manage strategic change and how it effects their competitive performance. The authors pinpoint the differences in the way that change is managed from business to business, and identify the common problems across industry sectors.

Discusses how to successfully implement collaboration commerce solutions, reporting lessons learned from leading companies such as P&G, Astra Zeneca, SAP, and Microsoft.

This work takes the notion of economic business intelligence and broadens it into the concept of competitive intelligence. It argues that today's firms should not rely on available economic data, but scan the environment for everything going on around them (to include intangible factors).

Presents a collection of essays, which reveal that the key to success for companies competing in the digital world will not be to engineer big technological breakthroughs, but rather to develop products and services by creatively combining technologies with innovative managerial approaches.

Scholars explore antitrust issues as these relate to dynamic industry competition and public policy.