A Comparative Analysis of Select Channel Management Practices in Firms from Five Industry Groups

2015 ◽  
pp. 5-8
Author(s):  
James R. Moore ◽  
Donald W. Eckrich
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Channel Management

scholarly journals Research on the Relationship between Shared Leadership and Individual Creativity-Qualitative Comparative Analysis on the Basis of Clear Set

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. 5445
Author(s):  
Muyun Sun ◽  
Jigan Wang ◽  
Ting Wen
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Shared Leadership ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Qualitative Comparative Analysis ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Sufficient And Necessary Condition

Creativity is the key to obtaining and maintaining competitiveness of modern organizations, and it has attracted much attention from academic circles and management practices. Shared leadership is believed to effectively influence team output. However, research on the impact of individual creativity is still in its infancy. This study adopts the qualitative comparative analysis method, taking 1584 individuals as the research objects, underpinned by a questionnaire-based survey. It investigates the influence of the team’s shared leadership network elements and organizational environmental factors on the individual creativity. We have found that there are six combination of conditions of shared leadership and organizational environmental factors constituting sufficient combination of conditions to increase or decrease individual creativity. Moreover, we have noticed that the low network density of shared leadership is a sufficient and necessary condition of reducing individual creativity. Our results also provide management suggestions for practical activities during the team management.

scholarly journals COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE OPTIMAL PLAN OF RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

2021 ◽  
pp. 97-114
Author(s):  
Oleksii KOCHETKOV ◽  
Julia AFANASOVA
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Programming ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Resource Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Maximum Level ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Optimal Plan ◽  
Resource Potential ◽  
Agricultural Enterprises ◽  
Agricultural Enterprise

The prerequisites of optimal plan for resource management of an agricultural enterprise to get the maximum profit with ensuring acceptable dynamics of resource potential are analyzed in the article. It is established that the maximum level of economic return is possible in special condition with corresponding alternation of resource-restoring and intensive mode. Moreover, the intensive mode is inefficient in special economic conditions due the aftereffect of this mode critically reduces the resource potential of an agricultural enterprise. It is proved that the optimal plan of the proposed mechanism resource management has common features with an intensive resource using mode than with a resource-restoring one. It indicates about the economic orientation of optimal resource management. The resource-restoring practice is a necessary tool for ensuring a sustainable level of resource potential. Based on the results of a comparative analysis with alternative scenarios for the development of resource management practices, the effectiveness of the optimal plan is proved. Effective management of production conditions that form the resource potential of agricultural enterprises creates competitive advantages in the form of additional economic benefits. This is a necessary prerequisite for the reproduction of resources of an agricultural enterprise as the basis of sustainable development of agricultural enterprises. It is proposed to use the principles of dynamic programming in the resource management of agricultural enterprises. Dynamic programming is defined as an effective alternative to adaptive mechanisms for improving the management of the resource potential of agricultural enterprises. The main advantage is the implementation of the goal-setting function of the management system in the system of strategic planning of enterprise development.

scholarly journals Organizational Configurations for Sustainability and Employee Productivity: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis Approach

2017 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 216-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magali A. Delmas ◽  
Sanja Pekovic
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Labor Productivity ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Employee Performance ◽  
Qualitative Comparative Analysis ◽  
Employee Productivity ◽  
Work Systems ◽  
Quality Management Systems ◽  
Environmental Practices ◽  
Organizational Configurations

We propose a model that identifies the configurations of relations between environmental practices and other management practices that can improve employee performance, measured as labor productivity. To test our model, we use the qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) methodology, which allows us to demonstrate empirically how different configurations of management practices, including environmental practices, quality management systems, teamwork, and interorganizational relations, contribute to work systems in ways that increase labor productivity. Our results, based on data from 4,975 employees from 1,866 firms, show that environmental practices are associated with higher labor productivity only when they are combined with other management practices.

scholarly journals Performance improvements of tax and customs authorities. Case study: Latvia

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mara etersone ◽  
Karlis Ketners
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Performance Management ◽  
Performance Indicators ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Public Budgeting ◽  
Performance Improvements ◽  
State Revenue ◽  
Activity Management ◽  
The Republic

The aim of this paper is to investigate performance management of the State Revenue Service (SRS) of the Republic of Latvia in the context of effective public budgeting. This article investigates performance indicators in the context of process (activity) management in tax and customs authority and examines a number of practical issues with regard to the design of management practices. Several research methods, such as analysis of academic and professional publications and logical and comparative analysis, are applied in this research. The main findings are related to the analysis of activities of SRS and could be practically implemented at SRS.

scholarly journals A roadmap for applying qualitative comparative analysis in supply chain research

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivan Russo ◽  
Ilenia Confente ◽  
David Gligor ◽  
Nicola Cobelli
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Customer Satisfaction ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Qualitative Comparative Analysis ◽  
Reverse Supply Chain ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Content Type

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to introduce qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) to the field of supply chain management and provide a detailed roadmap that supply chain researchers can utilize when applying this methodology.Design/methodology/approachData collection focused on the evaluation of product returns management practices as perceived by business customers who operate in a supplier–customer context. In order to analyze the data using the QCA approach, a multi-step analysis was developed.FindingsThe results indicate five solutions that lead to high levels of customer satisfaction. The existence of multiple sufficient configurations for customer satisfaction indicates equifinality because multiple alternative solutions can lead to the same outcome.Research limitations/implicationsThe authors make a methodological contribution by applying the QCA method to the field of supply chain management and providing a detailed roadmap that supply chain researchers can utilize.Practical implicationsThe authors provide managers five different and novel combinations of antecedents that lead to higher levels of customer satisfaction.Originality/valueThis study offers supply chain researchers a better understanding of when it is appropriate to use QCA and how to apply this methodology. From a theoretical perspective, past studies focused exclusively on the “net effects” of these antecedents, thus, did not capture the complexity of the relationships between these various antecedents and customer satisfaction. This is a noteworthy contribution as it highlights the complexity of the amalgam of relationships and factors that impact customer satisfaction within the context of reverse supply chain.

scholarly journals Integrated assessment modeling reveals near-channel management as cost-effective to improve water quality in agricultural watersheds

2021 ◽  
Vol 118 (28) ◽  
pp. e2024912118
Author(s):  
Amy T. Hansen ◽  
Todd Campbell ◽  
Se Jong Cho ◽  
Jonathon A. Czuba ◽  
Brent J. Dalzell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Cost Effectiveness ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Water Quality Management ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Agricultural Landscapes ◽  
Channel Management ◽  
Watershed Scale ◽  
Optimization Analysis ◽  
Row Crop

Despite decades of policy that strives to reduce nutrient and sediment export from agricultural fields, surface water quality in intensively managed agricultural landscapes remains highly degraded. Recent analyses show that current conservation efforts are not sufficient to reverse widespread water degradation in Midwestern agricultural systems. Intensifying row crop agriculture and increasing climate pressure require a more integrated approach to water quality management that addresses diverse sources of nutrients and sediment and off-field mitigation actions. We used multiobjective optimization analysis and integrated three biophysical models to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of alternative portfolios of watershed management practices at achieving nitrate and suspended sediment reduction goals in an agricultural basin of the Upper Midwestern United States. Integrating watershed-scale models enabled the inclusion of near-channel management alongside more typical field management and thus directly the comparison of cost-effectiveness across portfolios. The optimization analysis revealed that fluvial wetlands (i.e., wide, slow-flowing, vegetated water bodies within the riverine corridor) are the single-most cost-effective management action to reduce both nitrate and sediment loads and will be essential for meeting moderate to aggressive water quality targets. Although highly cost-effective, wetland construction was costly compared to other practices, and it was not selected in portfolios at low investment levels. Wetland performance was sensitive to placement, emphasizing the importance of watershed scale planning to realize potential benefits of wetland restorations. We conclude that extensive interagency cooperation and coordination at a watershed scale is required to achieve substantial, economically viable improvements in water quality under intensive row crop agricultural production.

Responsible and Sustainable Management Practices in Developing and Developed Business Environments

2019 ◽  
pp. 765-792
Author(s):  
Idahosa Igbinakhase
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Sustainable Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Corporate Sustainability ◽  
Business Environments ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Corporate Social

This chapter focuses on responsible and sustainable management practices in business based on the 10 principles of the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC). The UNGC has been named the world's largest corporate sustainability initiative and it has already made a significant contribution to the entrenchment of globally acceptable business ethics. The UNGC identifies ethical leadership as an important organisational asset, which has also contributed to the implementation of key responsible and sustainable practices, such as anti-corruption seminars and corporate social responsibility, among others. A comparative analysis of responsible and sustainable management practices of businesses in Nigeria and the United Kingdom revealed that some practices, such as corporate social responsibility, are being practiced in both business environments, among other findings.

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