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  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,639 Views
15 Pages

Building Sustainable Competitive Advantage in Banking through Organizational Agility

  • Wiweko Probojakti,
  • Hamidah Nayati Utami,
  • Arik Prasetya and
  • Muhammad Faisal Riza

25 September 2024

The fast development of technology in the banking sector has forced a basic review of organizational strategies and structures since banks want to keep ahead of the curve and satisfy the evolving needs of the digital era. This study examines the medi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,403 Views
19 Pages

15 March 2021

In the ever-changing environment, companies are often required to adopt improvised responses to certain unpredicted events and sometimes need to improvise strategically to sustain or thrive. However, the mechanism between strategic improvisation and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
7,094 Views
20 Pages

24 October 2022

Enhancing organizational resilience is an important way for enterprises to achieve sustained competitive advantage. Based on dynamic capability theory, organizational learning theory, and resource-based theory, this study constructs a theoretical mod...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
7,282 Views
19 Pages

Open Innovation and Competitive Advantage on the Hospitality Sector: The Role of Organizational Strategy

  • Francisco Musiello-Neto,
  • Orlando Lima Rua,
  • Mario Arias-Oliva and
  • Amélia Ferreira Silva

10 December 2021

This paper assesses the relationship between open innovation and competitive advantage and the mediating effect of organizational strategy. Using a quantitative methodological approach with survey data from 251 Portuguese hotel executive directors&rs...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,693 Views
19 Pages

14 August 2024

This study is the first to comprehensively investigate the impact mechanism of organizational resilience on the sustainable competitive advantage of enterprises based on dynamic capability theory, social network theory, and resource dependence theory...

  • Article
  • Open Access
Sustainability2026, 18(3), 1320;https://doi.org/10.3390/su18031320 
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28 January 2026

This study examines how dynamic capabilities contribute to sustainable competitive advantage in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), with a particular emphasis on long-term organizational sustainability in dynamic and uncertain environments. Dr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,531 Views
14 Pages

This study aimed to investigate the relationship between intellectual capital (human capital, relational capital, and structural capital) and sustainable competitive advantage, and the relationship between sustainable competitive advantage and organi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
9,155 Views
25 Pages

7 March 2024

Companies, in emerging economies and beyond, struggle to develop integration mechanisms that deliver supply chain performance and competitive advantages. Those striving for organizational performance by streamlining supply chain processes must assess...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,128 Views
16 Pages

14 August 2023

The escalating environmental pollution primarily caused by construction enterprises has raised concerns about the urgent need for sustainable practices. This study aims to establish a novel framework of Green Organizational Capabilities (GOC) for con...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,828 Views
20 Pages

11 May 2022

Adopting and implementing the Industry 4.0 strategy to increase the overall performance of the organization became one of the main aims of organizations. However, ignoring the linkages between implementing strategic decisions and organizational inter...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,107 Views
37 Pages

12 May 2023

Samarinda City was appointed as a buffer for the new capital city of Indonesia through culinary and craft SMEs. Culinary and craft SMEs are believed to be the drivers in accelerating the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), which are p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
12,180 Views
20 Pages

The Effect of Electronic Human Resource Management Systems on Sustainable Competitive Advantages: The Roles of Sustainable Innovation and Organizational Agility

  • Khalid Alqarni,
  • Mohamed Fathy Agina,
  • Hazem Ahmed Khairy,
  • Bassam Samir Al-Romeedy,
  • Dalia Abdelrahman Farrag and
  • Rabab Mahmoud Abdallah

28 November 2023

This study attempts to examine the impact of electronic human resource management (E-HRM) systems on achieving a sustainable competitive advantage (SCA) in the tourism and hospitality industry by incorporating sustainable innovation (SI) and organiza...

  • Article
  • Open Access
82 Citations
17,622 Views
35 Pages

28 July 2021

The higher education sector faces considerable competition around the world. Accordingly, universities need to make more efforts to increase their competitive advantages. This study aimed to empirically investigate the effect of organizational innova...

  • Article
  • Open Access
89 Citations
13,087 Views
20 Pages

22 October 2018

This study explores the effects of organizational information technology (IT) capability in determining organizational performance and sustainable competitive advantage. Building on the resource-based and knowledge-based views of a firm, the study pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
10,562 Views
15 Pages

6 April 2021

Using a resource-based view and dynamic capabilities approach, this study investigates both the internal and external factors influencing competitive advantage in the hotel industry. For this purpose, we examine how organizational capabilities may le...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
9,091 Views
16 Pages

23 February 2023

This study aims to test the effect of sustainable supply chain management on customer relationship management, competitive advantage, and organizational performance by collecting and analyzing data from the Egyptian textile industry. A suggested rese...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,224 Views
22 Pages

This study analyzes the effects of inbound and outbound open innovation, along with organizational strategy and corporate risk management, on competitive advantage and disadvantage in the Portuguese hospitality sector’s cost, service, and produ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,070 Views
23 Pages

22 August 2022

In today’s business environment, data analytics capability has gained popularity among organizations as a source of competitive advantage. Furthermore, due to the current business outsourcing, supply chain management is known to be an extremely...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
11,398 Views
21 Pages

9 October 2024

In the era of the fourth industrial revolution, competition among IT industries is becoming increasingly fierce. If a company is weak in its competitive advantage, it can have a huge negative impact on its organizational sustainability and ultimately...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,510 Views
18 Pages

29 June 2025

Background: In today’s rapidly evolving business environment, organizational agility (OA) has become increasingly critical for companies to maintain competitiveness and sustainability. Business intelligence (BI) is pivotal in enabling organizat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
7,529 Views
16 Pages

25 June 2019

The concept of leadership is complex and has been studied from multiple approaches, especially from the psychological field and from the field of management. Small businesses created as way of subsistence for the entrepreneur and their family present...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
7,795 Views
20 Pages

12 April 2024

Reverse logistics is a known supply chain practice and has been proven effective in recent decades. In developing countries, these practices are already employed and considered beneficial for the business or firms. The reverse logistics concept creat...

  • Concept Paper
  • Open Access
53 Citations
10,097 Views
17 Pages

16 September 2016

Innovative solutions are often conjured as a key factor for companies to come closer to the goal of ecological sustainability. Furthermore, proactive eco-innovation activities can encompass competitive advantages. Companies are therefore well advised...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,048 Views
22 Pages

23 February 2023

The purpose of this research was to determine the impact of Green Intellectual Capital practices on the competitive advantages of companies in Poland. The study included 150 Polish producing enterprises located across Poland. The first stage of the a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,984 Views
23 Pages

Leveraging Innovation Capability and Organizational Resilience for Business Sustainability Among Small and Medium Enterprises: A PLS-SEM Approach

  • Banji Rildwan Olaleye,
  • Joseph Nembo Lekunze,
  • Tsediso Joseph Sekhampu,
  • Ntseliseng Khumalo and
  • Adebanji Adejuwon William Ayeni

23 October 2024

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of innovation capability on business sustainability in Nigerian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), as well as consider the effects of organizational resilience, sustainable competitive ad...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
11,890 Views
23 Pages

7 October 2020

Enterprise architecture (EA) is a framework that consists of multiple processes to align business strategies with information technology (IT) architecture. It helps the organization standardize business operations and incorporate systems in different...

  • Article
  • Open Access
698 Views
36 Pages

27 November 2025

Digital Transformation (DTN) and Social Media Use (SMU) are reshaping how firms pursue competitiveness and sustainability. Yet, their combined effects on Sustainable Business Performance (SBP)—particularly in emerging-market retail contexts&mda...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,559 Views
26 Pages

Catalyzing Green Identity and Sustainable Advantage in Tourism and Hotel Businesses

  • Fahad Kamal Alsheref,
  • Hazem Ahmed Khairy,
  • Omar Alsetoohy,
  • Osman Elsawy,
  • Sameh Fayyad,
  • Mahmoud Salama,
  • Bassam Samir Al-Romeedy and
  • Shimaa Abo Elsoad Mohamed Soliman

20 June 2024

Global environmental concerns necessitate a heightened focus on green practices by businesses to balance sustainability and profitability. Therefore, this study investigates the effects of green ambidexterity (GA), green organizational identity (GOI)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
10,270 Views
16 Pages

26 October 2021

Over the last decades, growing interest has been devoted to employees’ perceptions of Human Resource Management Practices because of their positive influence on individual attitudes and behaviors as well as on organizational performance. Furthermore,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,777 Views
25 Pages

Green Supply Chain Management Practices and Organizational Performance: A Mediated Moderation Model with Second-Order Constructs

  • Mohitul Ameen Ahmed Mustafi,
  • Ya-Juan Dong,
  • Md Sajjad Hosain,
  • Mohammad Bin Amin,
  • Md. Atikur Rahaman and
  • Masuk Abdullah

9 August 2024

This study highlights the rising significance of green supply chain management practices (GSCMPs) in elevating organizational performance (OP) within the Bangladeshi manufacturing sector. GSCMPs, structured as the single second-order independent cons...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,111 Views
18 Pages

The Impact of Logistical Competences on Organizational Performance in Small and Medium Enterprises Moderated by Competitive Advantages in Social Media Campaigns

  • Shafig Al-Haddad,
  • Abdel-Aziz Ahmad Sharabati,
  • Ahmad Yacoub Nasereddin,
  • Ahmad El-Hafez and
  • Rashid Al-Rawashdeh

27 June 2025

Organizational performance defines how well an organization achieves its goals and objectives. To fulfill these, the organization should improve its logistical competencies including delivery speed, order accuracy, and returns handling. At the same t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
7,480 Views
18 Pages

2 September 2020

Expanding and maintaining the number of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) is directly related to sustainable economic, social, and individual development. However, SMEs are vulnerable to competition. Thus, this study focusses on the analysis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
56 Citations
9,268 Views
14 Pages

Analysis of Practices to Increase the Workforce Agility and to Develop a Sustainable and Competitive Business

  • Anca-Ioana Munteanu,
  • Nicolae Bibu,
  • Marian Nastase,
  • Nicoleta Cristache and
  • Cosmin Matis

27 April 2020

The current business environment is volatile and complex. Companies must constantly identify creative and environmentally friendly solutions. The emphasis on employees and workforce agility has become an attribute of sustainable and competitive organ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,452 Views
24 Pages

13 November 2025

This research analyzes the relationships among environmental factors, organizational structure, strategic orientation, and organizational performance within the Romanian medical system, addressing a theoretical gap in this context. A quantitative app...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,193 Views
22 Pages

31 December 2021

In this study, we proposed the concept of hyper-coopetition based on an investigation of the inter-organizational relationships of chipmakers. Hyper-coopetition is distinguished from traditional coopetition by having companies in heterogeneous indust...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,522 Views
14 Pages

22 October 2018

This paper aims to take the longitudinal development history of the Lenovo Cross-border complex nested R&D organization as the research object, to explore the development rules of enterprise niche. Strategic positioning is the core issue of enter...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,617 Views
14 Pages

8 April 2019

In organizations, the role of ambidexterity is becoming critical these days. Flexibility that enables creativity and innovation in work is also important for survival in a wildly competitive market and flexibility determines the economic sustainabili...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,601 Views
21 Pages

3 July 2025

This study investigates the relationships between entrepreneurial leadership skills (ELSs), ethical entrepreneurial leadership (EEL), corporate sustainable development (CSD), and competitive advantage (CA) in SMEs. Drawing on resource-based view theo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
11,167 Views
23 Pages

Influence Mechanism of Organizational Flexibility on Enterprise Competitiveness: The Mediating Role of Organizational Innovation

  • Guodong Ni,
  • Heng Xu,
  • Qingbin Cui,
  • Yaning Qiao,
  • Ziyao Zhang,
  • Huaikun Li and
  • Paul J. Hickey

27 December 2020

Organizational success heavily relies on the competitiveness of products and services under rapidly changing market conditions. This enterprise competitiveness becomes more critical for project-based enterprises as modernization of the Chinese constr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
12,541 Views
18 Pages

14 March 2024

The ability of management to influence employee attitudes and behaviours towards organizational goals is pivotal for an organization’s competitiveness, development, and survival. The study’s objective was to investigate the link between e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
8,960 Views
24 Pages

Do Environmental Strategy and Awareness Improve Firms’ Environmental and Financial Performance? The Role of Competitive Advantage

  • Kang Tan,
  • Abu Bakkar Siddik,
  • Farid Ahammad Sobhani,
  • Muhammad Hamayun and
  • Mohammad Masukujjaman

25 August 2022

Drawing upon the natural-resource-based view (NRBV), this study assesses the role of environmental strategy (ENS) and environmental awareness (ENA) in enhancing firms’ environmental and financial performance. Additionally, we hypothesize a medi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
8,392 Views
20 Pages

21 January 2019

Emerging industries bear great difference from traditional industries. It is valuable to explore the effectiveness of different resource management methods in the two industries. Based on this, the purposes of this paper are first to define and disti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,405 Views
22 Pages

15 November 2019

Past studies have suggested that social capital is a sustainable competitive advantage that leads to sustainable organizational growth and performance. However, few studies have explored how innovation speed moderates the relationship between social...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,635 Views
23 Pages

This study examines the perceived relationships between circular economy practices, procurement strategies, and organizational competitiveness using a theory-driven model and survey data from future business professionals. Drawing on multiple theoret...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
841 Views
28 Pages

20 October 2025

This research paper explores the textile industry in Taiwan and investigates how technological innovation can support corporate competitiveness under the pressures of global market competition, increased labor costs, and sustainability. This study te...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
6,143 Views
17 Pages

6 July 2022

After the rapid expansion of data variety, velocity and volume, human civilization experienced rapid changes in the period between the “IT” and “Data” ages. Researchers view big data and data capability as new sustainable comp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
9,102 Views
21 Pages

Management of Green Competitive Advantage: A Systematic Literature Review and Research Agenda

  • Rista Bintara,
  • Winwin Yadiati,
  • Muhammad Wahyudin Zarkasyi and
  • Nanny Dewi Tanzil

15 February 2023

The success or failure of a company is acquired from a competition, which requires a specific strategy to achieve competitive goals and benefits. One of these strategies is green competitive advantage (GCA) management, initially introduced in 2011, w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
10,773 Views
12 Pages

Competitive Intelligence and Sustainable Competitive Advantage in the Hotel Industry

  • Gisela Casado Salguero,
  • Manuel Ángel Fernández Gámez,
  • Ignacio Aldeanueva Fernández and
  • Daniel Ruíz Palomo

15 March 2019

Competitive intelligence (CI) is a business tool within strategic management, and it is gaining significance as a process that enables companies to achieve sustainable competitive advantage. This study explores the current state of CI in the Spanish...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,368 Views
23 Pages

10 March 2021

Environmentally friendly technologies have long been recognized as a widespread phenomenon working within the functions and performance of farms. Farmer’s cooperative organization might profoundly foster the environmentally friendly technologies (EFT...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,850 Views
16 Pages

2 January 2021

This study identifies an integrated model of a firm’s sustainable competitive advantages that helps understand how market orientation is related to an organization’s sustainable competitive advantage. An empirical test of the proposed fra...

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