...Xiaoyi Zhan; Yong Zhan; Guangjin Li Purpose This study aims to explore the impact of environmental, social, and governance ( ESG ) performance on enterprise competitiveness and integrates internal and external perspectives to analyze how supply chain stability and competitive strategy serve...

...Abdulkader Zairbani; Senthil Kumar Jaya Prakash Purpose This study aims to illustrate the improvement of competitive strategy (CS) and organizational performance during the last 30 years and demonstrate the enhancement of cost leadership strategy (CLS) and differentiation strategy (DS...

... the BWM with a hybrid approach; the study aims at understanding the effectiveness of corporate social responsibility in implementation of the 9 identified social sustainability practices. Benchmarking Decision support systems Competitive strategy In today’s competitive environment...

...Abdulkader Zairbani; Senthil Kumar Jaya Prakash Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an organizing lens for viewing the distinct contributions to knowledge production from those research communities addressing the impact of competitive strategy on company performance in general...

...Manjeet Kharub; Rahul S. Mor; Sudhir Rana Purpose This paper examines the mediating role of manufacturing strategies in the relationship between competitive strategies and firm performance. Design/methodology/approach This study gathered 250 responses from firms in a developing country's key...

...Saumyaranjan Sahoo Purpose The main purpose of this study is to understand how collective operational practices are adapted or stimulated by a firm's competitive strategy. Design/methodology/approach This study employed a data set drawn from 124 plant managers and directors of Indian...

... (IS) affects the competitiveness of the auto-component industry? 29 09 2017 31 03 2018 06 06 2018 07 07 2018 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2019 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Competitiveness Competitive strategy Indian auto-component industry...

.... There exist a continuous additive utility function u representing ≻ on X such that each one of its components u_i: X_i→ℜ, where i2, is a continuous utility function on X_i. Competitive strategy...

... Total quality management Performance measurement Competitive strategy Customer services quality Supply chain management Business excellence Supply chain is a network consisting of customers, retailers, wholesalers, manufacturers, suppliers and service providers (Hugos, 2003). The primary...

...’ understanding of SCRM strategies will improve the firm's performance and business excellence. Originality/value – This research empirically validates SCRM strategies and investigates how these create differences among firms. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Competitive strategy Factor...

...-functional alignment between strategies and practices, which have been transferred from developed to developing countries. Dr Tritos Laosirihongthong can be contacted at: tritos36@yahoo.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Performance Operations management Competitive strategy...

... for strategic insights. Competitive strategy Benchmarking Data envelopment analysis Airlines Tobit regression analysis The global airlines industry represents the epitome of challenge for academic researchers. Attempts to analyze and comprehend the complexity of strategic issues facing...

... (Kirca et al., 2005 ; Kohli et al., 1993), customer loyalty (Dick and Basu, 1994 ; Uncles et al., 2003) and brand equity (Berry, 2000 ; Keller, 1998) have gained special interest by both practitioners and academics. Recent competitive strategies focus on the end customer...

... the key contributions. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Communication technologies Supply chain management Competitive strategy Electronic commerce Electronic document delivery Operations management Increasingly, researchers recognize the strategic importance...

... choices Competitive strategy Small to medium‐sized enterprises Portugal Recent global changes have forced manufacturing organizations across the globe to reconsider their strategic business models. The increasing significance of Chinese manufacturing and the expanding power of the European...

... Globalization Small to medium‐sized enterprises Competitive strategy Inadequate technologies as well as other resources (Gunasekaran et al., 2001 ; Hashim and Wafa, 2002). Excessive cost of product development projects (Chorda et al., 2002). Lack of effective selling techniques...

... implemented on the analytical as on the policy level. Art Kovačič can be contacted at: kovacica@ier.si © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Benchmarking Slovenia Business policy Competitive strategy After the EU enlargement, the high level of competitiveness is becoming more...

... Kenny can be contacted at: b.kenny@hud.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Benchmarking Language Entrepreneurship Competitive strategy Finland Communication technologies Human language technologies (HLT) comprises the group of software components, tools, techniques...

... effort. Sha'ri Mohd Yusof can be contacted at: shari@fkm.utm.my © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Benchmarking Competitive strategy Small to medium‐sized enterprises Automotive industry Malaysia In the past, many writers and authors have used the term “framework...

... the collection of information by the loan officer concerning the 6C's is accurate and complete, or not. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Banking Performance measurement (quality) Competitive strategy Loans The lending function is considered by the banking industry as the most...