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The achievement of competitiveness advantages by companies is something vital for their survival and success. With this paper we try to know which factors explain the competitive success of SMEs, using a sample of 1.201 Spanish enterprises that develop their activity in the industrial sector. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The aim of this paper is to show the environmental situation of Spanish certified productive centres, as well as the effects it produces on certain indicators of business competitiveness and, especially, manufacturing performance indicators. Spanish certified productive centres do not seem to have gone beyond, in general, that threshold of strategic orientation (especially in manufacturing strategy) of environmental actions, perhaps because the facilities are older. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This paper introduces the notion of competition in business models, presents the concept of virtuous cycle, and illustrates how a well-crafted business model generates superior long-run returns. Looking at strategy formulation from the point of view of business models offers new insights on fundamental strategy issues such as the threats to sustainability of competitive advantage and the [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]