Competitive Strategy

Toyota’s Global Edge: Why It Stays Ahead of Rivals

Toyota’s strategic use of historical values to safeguard its distinctiveness offers profound insights for contemporary corporations navigating the digital age.

Competitive Strategy 2025 Annual Business Meeting

September 24, 2025 from 10:00am to 11:00am CT.

Platform Competition, Regulation and Antitrust

Tuesday, September 16 from 8 to 9:15 AM CT

Want to Unlock Value from Intangible Assets Abroad? Make Sure Your Board Is Up to the Task

As global investments in intangibles continue to rise, companies face growing pressure to optimize the value derived from these assets, especially when expanding into international markets.

Competitive Strategy and Climate Change

Release date: September 6, 2024 Panelists: Olga Hawn, Xia Li, Leandro “Leo” Pongeluppe, and Angelyn Fairchild Sponsor: The Competitive Strategy Interest Group Session Description: This interactive session helped attendees understand…

Competitive Strategy and Climate Change

This interactive session will help attendees understand how they can get engaged in research on Competitive Strategy and Climate Change, what types of actions companies take and risks they experience, and what explains some of the heterogeneity among firms.

Competitive Strategy and AI: AI Methods in Strategy Research

The Competitive Strategy Interest Group presents “Competitive Strategy and AI: AI Methods in Strategy Research”

Are startups more vulnerable to innovation imitation?

  When entrepreneurs bring an innovation to the market, they can’t always capitalize on its potential. Large corporations stealing inventions from “the little guy” is an overworked Hollywood script for…

Sticking with old technology can be a strategic move

Technological innovation — especially disruptive innovation — is often heralded as the best strategy for a company. But new research published in Strategic Management Journal found that as competitors adopt…

For Some Companies, There’s Strategy (and Success) to Sticking with Older Technology

When many phone companies shifted to making smart devices, one firm in particular — Nokia — stuck by its flip phone design. This summer, the device saw a burst in…