When Adrian Pruetz and her 31-year-old daughter, Erica, became partners in their own El Segundo, Calif.-based law firm, Erica quickly realized an advantage to having mom around.
It is implicitly assumed that these ecosystems will lead to value networks through which the participating companies can realize a competitive advantage.
When Chinese companies treat humans this way, they realize a competitive advantage over American firms that routinely obey humanitarian laws.
But every time I hear one of them speak in public, I realize what an advantage the rest of us have -- real stories, real characters, real democracy.
Prior research has shown evidence for a positive impact of strategic consistency on firm performance, especially by avoiding conflicts between multiple strategic goals or multiple measures to realize a certain strategic advantage (Lamberg et al. 2009; Milgrom and Roberts 1990, 1992; Porter 1980 , 1996 Robinson et al. 1988).
According to Milgrom and Roberts (1992) strategic consistency avoids conflicts between multiple strategic goals or multiple measures to realize a certain strategic advantage, or that "doing more of any activity increases (or at least does not decrease) the marginal profitability of each other activity in the group" (Milgrom and Roberts 1992: 108).
I realized a major advantage of this diet plan was its convenience.
The SP100 was not intended as a low cost one-time-use device; but rather, a highly flexible power supply that realized a cost advantage by being capable of multiple missions, based on a common design with the flexibility to evolve.
The XBee modules offer the advantage to realize a wireless communication application without errors (PER = 0%) according to environment application, distance, disposition, and channel chosen as is shown in [42].
We realized we had an advantage over some parts of the world and wanted to harness this opportunity to create one of the most inclusive tech sectors.
