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Globalization has prompted manufacturing firms to come to terms with environmental legislation and regulations, resulting in the manufacturing industry realizing the importance of adopting environmental friendly supply chain management (SCM) practices. A growing number of companies have realized that attaining effective SCM is only one side of the coin. The other side is to make SCM environmentally...
Based on the literature review of the value chain governance and from the perspective of micro research on enterprise, this paper describes the value chain of the manufacturing firms of specialty products in minority nationalities and the key factors of geographical and cultural characteristics in value chain governance. Through the survey of the manufacturing firms in Guizhou Minority Nationalities,...
With the fast development of information technologies implementation, Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are increasingly adopted by more large and medium-size companies in China. For most Chinese companies, ERP is still in its planning or initializing stages. Managers in those firms are expecting to know more about what will happen and what they need do after the ERP implementation. Even...
The research suggests a conceptual model about the impacts of relational embeddedness on the technological firm innovation performance through exploratory learning, and examines the influencing mechanism among relational embeddedness, exploratory learning and technological innovation performance by carrying out studies on 178 manufacturing firms. The hypotheses in the research are partially supported...
This study combines trust, learning and knowledge management theory to develop an integrated model of knowledge acquisition in transition China. We analyze the model using a structural equation model approach, and 218 manufacturing and service firms in China are selected as the samples of this study. The results conclude that: (1) the trust is positively relative commitment to learning; (2) trust...
Static competitive environment has been replaced by an increasingly dynamic uncertain environment, organizational flexibility is getting more and more attention, flexibility has already become the most important factors to acquire the future competitive advantage. This paper build up the theoretical model of environmental uncertainty, organizational flexibility and sustainable competitive advantage...
This study combines shared vision theory and innovational mechanism perspectives to develop a general model of product innovation. We analyze this model using a structural equation model approach, with 218 manufacturing and service firms in China are selected as the samples of this study. Our results indicate that internal shared vision positively affects innovational mechanism, and innovational mechanism...
Based on the research of the order parameter principle and the slave principle, this paper regards the management pattern system of manufacturing firms as a complex system which is composed by the mission subsystem, the technology subsystem, the human resources subsystem and the organization subsystem. Its implementation rules conform to the characteristics of the self-organization systems. The paper...
The objective of this paper is to report on the method, analysis, and conclusions concerning two research questions formulated as: Whatarethedeterminantsofinnovationatfirmlevel?rdquoandldquowhatistheimpactofinnovationonfirmperformance?rdquo The results are based on an empirical study covering 184 manufacturing firms in the Northern Marmara region within Turkey. A comprehensive and...
Based on resourced-based theory, this study tries to examine how IT capabilities affect firm performance. In contrast to past studies that have assumed that IT capabilities have direct effects on firm performance, this study argues that a firmpsilas performance can be explained by how effective the firm is in using IT to support organizational decision-making. A conceptual model is developed to explain...
In the globalize world the there has been a tough competition among the manufacturing as well service sector. The manufacturing firms are striving to survive in the competitive world. However the firms have to struggle with growing trade deficits and outsourced operations, while strong market competitors have emerged, using superior manufacturing practices and continuous process improvement. The small...
The consistent rise in fame of TQM since last two decades has established a profound impact on business strategies today. Businesses are depending on continuous improvement (CI) and total quality management (TQM) as a means by which they can maintain a competitive edge. Spanish and Pakistani industries both have been engaged in continuous improvement practices with different implementation strategies...
In this paper we report the findings of a two-year project that examined how technology and engineering consultancies (TECs) manage knowledge and innovation to create and capture value. We studied eight multi-national consultancies at two levels. First, we examined the policies, processes and practices used at the corporate level to promote innovation, and capture the value created by it. Secondly,...
In the past ten years, a steady stream of research has focused on the relationship between market orientation and performance. Many empirical studies have shown that market orientation is positively related to performance. However, the question whether the positive market orientation-performance relationship is robust across different contexts is not clear. Prior empirical research has been mixed...
As the most foundation of market orientation, which is the cornerstone of modern marketing thought, customer orientation is the focus in theory and practice. This study reexamined the direct relationship between customer orientation and business performance from a cultural perspective, and showed the moderating effects of manufacturing versus service firms non-nation-own versus nation-own firms and...
Global manufacturing network (GMN) is a new manufacturing system, which provides great opportunities for local firms in developing countries to acquire knowledge and upgrade through collaborations in GMN. This paper hypothesizes that local firm's potential absorptive capacity has a positive impact on its knowledge acquisition in GMN, and the association between them is moderated by network embeddedness...
This study presents an empirical study to examine the performance and the determinants of technology outsourcing service in manufacturing firms in the Northeastern China. Using data collected in 94 large or medium-sized firms, we find that there existed a deep gap between the providers and the users of technology outsourcing services. The analysis also says that three factors which influence the outsourcing...
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