sustainable competitive advantage

  • 1sustainable competitive advantage — UK US noun [C] ► COMMERCE, MARKETING an advantage that allows a business to be more successful than its competitors over a long period of time: »Companies now recognize that good human resources are as important as products in building a… …

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  • 2Competitive Advantage — An advantage that a firm has over its competitors, allowing it to generate greater sales or margins and/or retain more customers than its competition. There can be many types of competitive advantages including the firm s cost structure, product… …

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  • 3Sustainable product development — (SPD) is a method for product development that incorporates a Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development (FSSD), also known as The Natural Step (TNS) framework. As the demand for products continues to increase around the world and… …

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  • 4Sustainable procurement — is a spending and investment process typically associated with public policy, although it is equally applicable to the private sector.Organisations practicing sustainable procurement meet their needs for goods, services, utilities and works not… …

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  • 5Sustainable energy — Renewable energy …

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  • 6Competitive exclusion principle — In ecology, the competitive exclusion principle,[1] sometimes referred to as Gause s law of competitive exclusion or just Gause s law,[2] is a proposition which states that two species competing for the same resources cannot coexist if other… …

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  • 7First-mover advantage — is the advantage gained by the initial occupant of a market segment. This advantage may stem from the fact that the first entrant can gain control of resources that followers may not be able to match.cite book |last=Grant |first=Robert M.… …

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  • 8Resource-based view — The resource based view (RBV) is an economic tool used to determine the strategic resources available to a firm. The fundamental principle of the RBV is that the basis for a competitive advantage of a firm lies primarily in the application of the …

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  • 9Porter generic strategies — Michael Porter has described a category scheme consisting of three general types of strategies that are commonly used by businesses to achieve and maintain competitive advantage. These three generic strategies are defined along two dimensions:… …

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  • 10Strategic management — is a field that deals with the major intended and emergent initiatives taken by general managers on behalf of owners, involving utilization of resources, to enhance the performance of firms in their external environments.[1] It entails specifying… …

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