Sustainable Competitive Advantage The purpose of this essay is to discuss the meaning of sustainable competitive advantage with examples from hospitality industry. Kotelnikov (2001) states that “sustainable competitive advantage is the focal point of the corporate strategy. It allows the maintenance and improvement of the enterprise ’s competitive position in the market.” “Sustainability in the hospitality industry seeks to provide some answers to questions‚ attempts to resolve challenges and give
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organizational actions is necessary to make effective operational and capital investment decisions that positively impact organizational objectives and satisfy the objectives of multiple stakeholders. The financial payoff of a proactive sustainability strategy can be substantial. To become a leader in sustainability‚ one needs to articulate what sustainability is‚ develop processes to promote sustainability throughout the corporation‚ measure performance on sustainability‚ and ultimately link this measurement
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The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/0960-0035.htm IJPDLM 38‚5 A framework of sustainable supply chain management: moving toward new theory Craig R. Carter and Dale S. Rogers University of Nevada‚ College of Business Administration‚ Reno‚ Nevada‚ USA Abstract Purpose – The authors perform a large-scale literature review and use conceptual theory building to introduce the concept of sustainability to the field of supply chain management
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individual objectives successfully. In an organization‚ the employees work as a group and manager provides them guidance to perform their jobs precisely. Then a manager performs the role of a leader and as a leader he wants to implement different strategies to inspire his employees. When a manager is a leader then he thinks about some factors such as the size of the organization‚ employee’s perception‚ his (managers) experience etc. Scholars and researchers have worked on different leadership theories
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GLOCAL PRODUCT DESIGN: A SUSTAINABLE SOLUTION FOR GLOBAL COMPANIES IN REGIONAL AND/OR LOCAL MARKETS Download PDF fomat here: http://www.sd.polyu.edu.hk/iasdr/proceeding/papers/Glocal%20Product%20Design_%20A%20Sustainable%20Solution%20for%20Global%20Companies%20in%20Regional%20and_or%20Local%20Markets.pdf Bijan Aryana1 and Seyed Javad Zafarmand 2 1 Design Department‚ Shiraz Municipality‚ Shiraz‚ Iran‚ aryana@mail.iust.ac.ir 2Industrial Design Department‚ Fine Arts Faculty‚ University
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What is sustainable marketing? Explain how the sustainable marketing concept differs from the marketing concept and the societal marketing concept. Sustainable marketing is marketing that is socially and environmentally responsible and meets the present needs of consumers and businesses while also preserving or enhancing the ability of future generations to meet their needs. Marketers’ are reexamining their relationship with social values and responsibilities and with the very Earth that sustains
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Product and Service Strategies Smartphones The smartphone and tablet market continue to produce impressive growth and will persist in doing so over the next two years. The market should then transition from the growth stage to the maturity stage. During this stage‚ the key to success will be industry players ’ ability to differentiate their products from the competition and capture profit via margin expansion in a setting of production and manufacturing adaptations.1It seems as if Smartphones are
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1 Yan King Cho Sustainable competitive advantage In tourism industry‚ Changes is rapid. Innovation is the way for remaining their business situation and attracting more customers from other market pool. Innovating Strategy to expand own advantage to become sustainable. It increases competitiveness of the company to defeat the rivals. Dess et al.(2005) state that “Strategic innovations can be distinguished from the incremental and ‘accidental’ changes‚ as stately‚ by definition‚ includes a sustained
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ABSTRACT This essay refers to the existence and especially the necessity and the methods needed to ensure that sustainable cities can be supported globally. Analyzed the Leipzig Charter and the European Framework of Reference for sustainable cities with the participation of Greek cities such as Velvento Kozani’s ‚ Samothrace and Heraklion‚ Crete. Extensively analyzed the ecological architecture or otherwise bio-climatic architecture and green buildings and what is the most eco-friendly materials
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policies and initiatives (Islam et al‚ 2007). Canada’s history as renewable energy developers started as a leader in the field. As a result of the oil price shocks in the 1970’s Canada made its first major steps to developing available renewable resources; biomass‚ solar‚ wind and geothermal (Islam et al‚ 2007). In the early 1980’s $100 million per year was invested into renewable energy technologies and methods for market penetration. Since then Canada has made some minor growth in renewable sources
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