The age of temporary advantage
Strategic Management JournalPublished 27 October 2010
Richard A. D'Aveni, Giovanni Battista Dagnino, Ken G. Smith
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The overall goal is to ask: What would the field of strategic management look like if sustainable advantages did not exist?
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Abstract The creation and management of temporary competitive advantages has emerged as an alternative to sustainable models of competitive advantage in the strategy literature. We review the literature and discuss questions related to the antecedents, consequences and the management temporary advantage in the introduction of this special issue. The overall goal is to ask: What would the field of strategic management look like if sustainable advantages did not exist? We summarize the papers published in this special issue and highlight directions for future research. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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