Looking inside for competitive advantage
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Business competition requires a knowledge of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats facing the firm. A study of the environmental chances and threats has long been in place. To understand a firm's internal strengths and weaknesses, managers are tasked with looking for valuable, rare and inimitable resources and with using these through their organization.
Publication Name: The Academy of Management Executive
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0896-3789
Year: 1995
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An interview with Greet Hofstede
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Geert Hofstede has published Culture's Consequences and has received M.Sc. in mechanical engineering, earned his Ph.D in social psychology and has many honorary doctorate degrees from universities in the Netherlands, Bulgaria, Greece, and Sweden. He talks about personal and professional experiences that led him to write the book.
Publication Name: The Academy of Management Executive
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0896-3789
Year: 2004
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An interview with William Ouchi
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Author William Ouchi talks about his latest book 'Theory Z: How American Management Can Meet the Japanese Challenge. He describes his experience during and prior to writing the book.
Publication Name: The Academy of Management Executive
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0896-3789
Year: 2004
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