Another example of social relationships causing human capital mobility is the ________ of talent from an organization to form ________.

Management innovations such as total quality, just-in-time, benchmarking, business process reengineering, and outsourcing are important but not enough for building sustainable competitive advantage.

If the overall cost leadership strategy is to provide sustainable competitive advantage, all activities in the value-chain need to be evaluated including the relationships among the value-chain activities.

According to the text, the triple bottom line approach to corporate accounting includes which three components?

________ are the competencies or skills that a firm employs to transform inputs into outputs.

In large organizations, conflicts can arise between functional areas. In order to resolve these conflicts, strategic objectives

In order to take advantage of investment in human capital, a firm should

When the management frame of reference gets out of touch with the realities of the actual business situation, what can happen to the firm?

Tangible resources are assets that are relatively easy to identify such as financial and physical assets.

Historical comparisons provide information to managers about changes in the competitive position of a firm. Historical comparisons often are misleading