Competitive Advantage

Competitive advantage means that one organization has something better than another does. Organizations strive to have an advantage over another. How this occurs can be traced to the strategic decision-making processes and to some extent, the social, cultural, and political conditions, or trends within the organization. In this assignment you will look at how the social, cultural, and political conditions or trends within the organization along with strategic decision-making methods work to assure competitive advantage.

General Requirements:

• Use APA style for their writing assignments.
• This assignment requires that at least 14 fourteen academic journals references.

Directions:

Write a 1,000–1,250-word paper discussing prevailing social, cultural and political conditions or trends within organizations and strategic decision making methods to assure competitive advantage. Include the following:

1. Identify and analyze one prevailing social, cultural, and political condition or trend within organizations. (Note: Identify one of each.)
2. Evaluate different organizational structures that you have discovered in your reading and research and the feasibility of the structure in keeping a competitive advantage.
3. Recommend decision-making methods that assure competitive advantage.