Sustainable competitive advantage and the management of technology and innovation

Sustainable competitive advantage has become part of the jargon in the practise of management. Unfortunately the term has become diluted and is often used to describe organizational strengths that do not fully comply with the meaning of the term in traditional strategic management theory. This paper explains the concept of sustainable competitive advantage with a focus on the management of technology and innovation, comparing and contrasting the relevant theories grounded in extant research and scholarship.