...Mohammad Falahat; Ramayah Thurasamy; Pureheart Ogheneogaga Irikefe; Qi Yi Thong; Mei Peng Low; Ahmad Samed Al-Adwan Purpose This study examines how AI adoption enablers influence AI-driven innovation, competitiveness and multidimensional firm performance among micro, small and medium-sized...

...Jose Celso Contador; Jose Luiz Contador; Walter Cardoso Satyro Purpose This paper proposes the “fields and weapons of the competition model applied to business networks” – CAC-Redes (in Portuguese, Campos e Armas da Competição – Redes de negócio), an extension of the fields and weapons...

...Ahmed Khouja; Nadia Lehoux; Yan Cimon Purpose In highly competitive industries such as the construction sector, companies with limited capabilities struggle to maintain their current standing, let alone acquire more market share. Before they are able to address their shortcomings, these companies...

...Hemantkumar Tambade; Rohit Kr Singh; Sachin Modgil Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify dimensions of competitiveness, factors affecting the competitiveness and building the framework of competitiveness for the Indian auto-component industry and further develop and validate a survey...

...Nisha Bamel; Sanjay Dhir; Sushil Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify the inter-partner dynamics-based enablers of joint venture (JV) competitiveness. In addition, this paper models the interactions among identified enablers/factors to project the strength of their relationship with JV...

...Pragya Bhawsar; Utpal Chattopadhyay Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a quantitative approach to measure industry clusters competitiveness. Design/methodology/approach An attempt has been made to construct a composite indicator backed up by a conceptually grounded framework...

... clustering in China. Design/methodology/approach Multi-method approach was employed as primary data were collected from a case study of Shaoxing textile cluster, and was supplemented with secondary data to triangulate the findings. The proposition that competitive advantages of industrial clusters...

... at: dewan.islam@ncl.ac.uk 20 05 2015 06 01 2016 09 01 2016 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Competitiveness Productivity Business case European context Longer, heavier and faster Rail freight In today’s...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Competitiveness Business performance Company performance Business excellence Supply chain performance Supply chain integration Supply chain practices The study of supply chain management has emerged as a prominent field in providing...

... groups, and port market deregulation efforts by the European Commission. These developments resulted in increased competition between deep-sea ports in the HLH range and this typically results in improved efficiency and altered financial connections between government(s) and the deregulated company...

...Juliano Anderson Pacheco; Dalton Francisco de Andrade; Antonio Cezar Bornia Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a new method for benchmarking, which allows the construction of scales of competitiveness for the comparison of products using Item Response Theory (IRT). Design...

... review approach (Tranfield et al., 2003). The review has been divided into four phases as follows: Competitiveness Firm performance Competitive advantage Manufacturing sector Exploratory factor analysis Functional competencies Multiple linear regression analysis In the past...

...John P. Meyer Ádám   Török , Balázs   Borsi and András   Telcs . Competitiveness in Research and Development: Comparisons and Performance . Edward Elgar Publishing , 2005 . 215 pp. , ISBN: 1843769212   $110 (Hardcover) © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007...

...Anne M. Smith The adoption of benchmarking techniques has increased over recent years, yet service organisations have been relatively reluctant to adopt the practice. It is widely acknowledged that elements of “service quality” play a key role in the performance and competitiveness of service...

... in terms of the impact on the degree of competitiveness imparted to a firm by a competitiveness dimension. In this paper, we propose a quantitative measure – quality competitiveness index (QCI) – to determine the degree to which a firm’s quality practices and policies are instrumental in improving its...

...Mohamed Zairi Notes that Shorts initiated a total quality programme in 1987 in response to a crisis following privatisation of the company. Points out that the company has found strategic benchmarking particularly useful in efforts to increase competitiveness. Looks at the Focus 2000 benchmarking...

...Bishnu Sharma; Tom Fisher Investigates functional strategies aimed at developing competitive advantage in terms of both their perceived importance by management and their actual impact on organizational performance in Australian manufacturing companies. Considers factors such as productivity...

... efforts on results‐driven studies carried out by consultants. Although this provides a useful introduction to benchmarking, the next step for D2D to achieve its goal of worldwide competitiveness is a more process‐driven approach. Reviews the construction of benchmarking projects previously carried out...

... to be critical if the practice of benchmarking is to lead to any results. Provides some guidelines on ensuring that benchmarking remains a powerful strategic tool. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Benchmarking Competitiveness Financial performance Kaizen Organizational change Performance management Process...