...Serdar Ulubeyli Purpose This paper aims to reveal the impact of five industry forces (IFs) on implementing input‐based competitive strategies (CSs) and to determine relationship of these CSs on cement plants' environmental performances (EPs). Design/methodology/approach Data were collected...

... upon the process‐level impacts of individual IS initiatives. Neil F. Doherty can be contacted at: N.F.Doherty@lboro.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Resource‐based view Improved competitive positioning Sustainability Complementary resources Resources Competitive...

... Service quality Customer services quality Customer satisfaction Service industries Competitive strategy Employee satisfaction Hong Kong Rachel W.Y. Yee can be contacted at: tcryee@inet.polyu.edu.hk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 It is widely recognized that today's...

...@mail.ncku.edu.tw © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Research and development Competitive strategy Patents Business formation A critical strategic decision facing a technology firm which has generated an innovation is how to access the financial resources and commercialization...

... (Kronienko et al., 2004). Production scheduling Simulation Manufacturing systems Productivity rate Competitive strategy Agent‐based computation has been regarded as an important approach for the modeling and simulation of manufacturing systems (Jenning and Wooldridge, 1998 ; Shen...

... a big challenge for SSIs. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 India Small enterprises Competitive strategy Business development Product management In India, 95 percent of industrial units are in small‐scale sector with 40 percent value addition in the manufacturing sector...

... characteristics. It instead focus on the role of managerial interpretations of the competitive environment and how they affect the way they respond to a firm's competitors. Konstantinos G. Fouskas can be contacted at: kfouskas@gmail.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Competitive strategy...

... applications. Competitive strategy Value chain Strategic manufacturing Supplier relations Productivity rate Thailand The study stems from a necessity to strengthen productivity measurement among manufacturers belonging to the Federation of Thai Industries (FTI). The FTIs policy focuses...

... database. Design/methodology/approach The preliminary analytical models for competitiveness analysis are used to analyze the operational competitiveness strategies in three different types of Chinese high‐tech manufacturing companies based on the weights of the multi‐criteria manufacturing strategies...

... accomplish coopetition. Kwai‐Sang Chin can be contacted at: mekschin@cityu.edu.hk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Critical success factors Competitive strategy Economic cooperation Analytical hierarchy process Coopetition implies that organizations can interact...

... collection Data analysis Competitive strategy The rewards from institutionalizing a CI program that follows the CI cycle are evident in many companies like General Electric and Met Life. CI drives strategic decision‐making and as a result, these companies are leaders in their respective industries...

... with how to achieve these strategies (Kim and Arnold, 1996). Kongkiti Phusavat can be contacted at: fengkkp@ku.ac.th © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Competitive strategy Manufacturing industries Services Owing to the impacts from globalization (e.g. free movements...

.... This demonstrated the importance of image and perception from existing and potential clients – reflecting strong informal and social networks in Thailand. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Competitive strategy Services Thailand Owing to the dynamic changes from industrial‐ to service...

...‐Chia Chang can be contacted at: chang@mail.ntcb.edu.tw © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Manufacturing industries Flexibility Entrepreneurialism Innovation Risk assessment Competitive strategy In today's dynamic environment of global competition, rapid technological...

.../methodology/approach This study employed a data set drawn from 102 managers of Australian manufacturing firms. Multiple regression analysis with moderating effect was used for analysing the relationship between the competitive strategies and quality performance. Findings The findings indicated...

... Flexible manufacturing systems Competitive strategy Over the past decade, manufacturing companies have faced both increasing technological innovation and more competitive markets. Constantly changing technology results in product and process innovations with short product life cycles...

... (Hayes and Wheelwright, 1984 ; Kim and Arnold, 1996). The items were then randomized with nine items (22 percent) reverse‐coded. These characteristics are used to empirically determine structural differences between large and small facilities. A competitive strategy is a broad formula for how...

... Electronic commerce Resource management Competitive strategy Figure 1 shows e‐business implementations from the perspective of three strategic theories: Virtual Organising, eBC, and Benefits of B2B, where: 1. Virtual Organising strategies provides a model of e‐business...

... the knowledge repository (Wang, 2002). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Knowledge management Gap analysis Competitive strategy Taiwan Rapid development of the internet and information technology pushed the world into the era of a new economy. Previously, the market value...

... Resource management Electronic commerce Competitive strategy ERP was restricted to intra‐organizational process support, serving as the information backbone providing the plumbing and wiring for an enterprise information system. Figure 1(a) illustrates ERP as the information infrastructure...