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Country image, dimensioned by innovation, workmanship, design and prestige has become one of the competitive sources when products are sold in global markets. The paper examines the relationship between country image building and industrial upgrading, and explores ways to establish country image through apparel industrial upgrading efforts such as process upgrading, product upgrading, functional upgrading...
Fierce competition in global markets and the heightened expectations of consumers have forced business enterprises to invest in and focus attention on the relationships with their customers and suppliers and businesses increasingly realize that they no longer compete as solely autonomous entities. Logistics supply chain management has become more and more important for the major retailing corporations...
The objective of the paper is to provide an analytical perspective on the importance of South African (SA) civil aircraft firms building technological capabilities so as to develop technological competence and competitiveness in the global markets. The paper emphasises the role of government and the national technological assets in shaping national technological capabilities and competencies through...
Research has long emphasized the importance of the development of new products for global markets. However, despite the increasing interest of firms in developing such products, we do not know empirically how such development impacts the performance of new product development (NPD) programs. Addressing this research gap in the literature, this study proposes and tests a series of hypotheses about...
Rapid market changes, explosion of product varieties and short life cycles have increased competition in today's global markets. It is obvious that in today's competitive markets, collaboration between the vendor and the buyer is necessary to reduce the joint inventory cost and the response time of the vendor-buyer system. Joint Economic Lot sizing Problem has been extended in many different directions...
The use of advanced manufacturing technologies provides a great potential for improving manufacturing performance to compete in the global markets. This paper proposes a decision model based on fuzzy linear regression and fuzzy multiple objective programming for advanced manufacturing technology selection. Fuzzy regression is introduced in the model to assess the vagueness of functional relationships...
The purpose of this paper is to explore how a firm's value-creation ability, internal operation efficiency and competitive advantage can be improved by adoption of a new technology. This work draws on four case-studies of public Israeli firms, traded on international courses, and operating in global markets. The firms are Comverse, Ormat Technologies, Tower Semiconductor, and Radvision. They are engaged...
The objective of the paper is to provide investigative analysis of technological competitiveness in the South African (SA) civil aircraft industry. It discusses business trends and markets, technological competencies, capabilities and impediments. The paper is biased towards analyzing the technological base of the civil aircraft industry with the aim to recommend strategies for enhancing national...
The great evolution of medias and information, that occurred during the XX century, had as one of the main consequences the increase of production speed and transmission of knowledge. The changes, associated to globalization, had modified world-wide the economic, commercial and human relations. The stimulation to the development of the creativity associated with engineering techniques are tools that...
The emergence of a global knowledge economy means that globalization now extends beyond markets for goods and finance into markets for technology, knowledge workers, and innovation finance. An increasing division of labor in innovation has accelerated the creation of markets for disembodied intellectual assets and for the skills and money needed to produce and use these assets effectively. The globalization...
The present day highly volatile global markets have rendered many of the established and time-tested management principles and concepts obsolete. To sustain and grow in competition, it has become imperative for organizations to undertake periodic experimentation with innovative ideas and concepts at every managerial and technological levels of organization. This is possible only through continuous...
Using by the extension technique, the return threshold is evaluated first, then based on the exergoeconomics theory, the closed-loop supply chain is regarded as a huge energy system with the new view, and the sustainability of the closed-loop supply chain system is discussed under the circumstance of exergoeconomics in this paper, and then the metric about "system negative environment effect"...
Market globalization leads to a highly competitive environment. A corporation must develop successful new products for sustaining its survival and growth in global markets. New product competition environments have changed in recent decades. Traditional criteria for new product success are high quality, low cost, and product differentiation. But these criteria cannot guarantee firms of new product...
When Chinese companies start shifting their focus from domestic markets to global markets, corporate branding is an unavoidable issue. We propose a model, corporate brand cube model (CBCM), to help Chinese companies in their corporate branding. The CBCM is an extension of the current corporate branding frame. It redefines the concept of the corporate brand as a relationship between a company and its...
Fierce competition in today's global markets has forced enterprises to improve their priorities, such as quality, cost, delivery, service and flexibility. The trade-off between these priorities is central to operations strategy research and practice because it forms the foundation of how we conceptualize the improvement process. In this study, we use IMSS databases to determine whether the tradeoff...
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