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Firm Resources and Sustained Competitive Advantage

Understanding sources of sustained competitive advantage has become a major area of research in strategic management. Building on the assumptions that strategic resources are he...

The SAGE handbook of qualitative research

Publie anterieurement sous le titre : Handbook of qualitative research, 1994 Comprend des references bibliographiques Comprend un index

A Conceptual Model of Service Quality and Its Implications for Future Research

The attainment of quality in products and services has become a pivotal concern of the 1980s. While quality in tangible goods has been described and measured by marketers, quali...

Organizational Information Requirements, Media Richness and Structural Design

This paper answers the question, “Why do organizations process information?” Uncertainty and equivocality are defined as two forces that influence information processing in orga...

Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 291 diseases and injuries in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

Trustworthiness as a Source of Competitive Advantage

Emerging Criteria for Quality in Qualitative and Interpretive Research

Not only are the boundaries of interpretive research as yet undefined, but criteria for judging the quality of such research are even more fluid and emergent. Developing criteri...

Support seeking and support giving within couples in an anxiety-provoking situation: The role of attachment styles.

This study examined how adult attachment styles moderate spontaneous behavior between dating couples when 1 member of the dyad is confronted with an anxiety-provoking situation....

Chief executive scanning, environmental characteristics, and company performance: An empirical study

Abstract Chief executives in 50 manufacturing companies were interviewed about the perceived strategic uncertainty in six environmental sectors, and the frequency and mode of sc...

A Longitudinal Analysis of the Antecedents of Organizational Commitment.

From longitudinal data from 129 nursing department employees, organizational commitment was found to be antecedent to job satisfaction rather than an outcome of it. Furthermore,...