Aneta Marichova
DOI: 10.2478/ouacsce-2025-0004
Pages: 34-48
Abstract – The development of any company today, based only on its own internal resources, is inefficient, due to limited resources and the danger of duplication of solutions, in which significant costs have been invested. This imposes the objective need for coordination, integration with other interconnected companies or the creation of an expanded company. These processes allow managers to use existing material, intangible, human and organizational resources more effectively and to implement strategic changes that are the basis for creating, offering and realizing higher added value or building competitive advantages. The purpose of the study is: 1) To analyze the characteristics of the expanded firm. 2) To define the sources and factors for building competitive advantages in the expanded firm.
Keywords – competitive advantages, evaluation, extended firm, factors, sources.
