Effect: Business Environment Factors on Business Strategy and Business Performance

Author(s):  
Won-hyun So ◽  
Ha-kyun Kim
Author(s):  
Yogesh Malhotra

<div>Within the last few years, the topic of knowledge management has gathered a</div><div>lot of interest in the corporate sectors. Although there is no commonly agreed upon</div><div>definition of knowledge management, companies, governments, institutions and</div><div>organizations are demonstrating an increasing interest in the topic. The key argument</div><div>of this chapter is that most current interpretations of knowledge management</div><div>are relevant to the industrial world of business of the past era. Given their origin in</div><div>the ‘old world’ of business, many such interpretations of knowledge management</div><div>may have serious and adverse implications for information strategy of enterprises,</div><div>governments and institutions.</div><div>The discussion surfaces the key assumptions about information strategy and</div><div>how they need to be considered afresh given the changing assumptions about</div><div>business strategy and competitive business environment. Based on this discussion,</div><div>a new perspective of knowledge management is proposed followed by suggestions</div><div>for the managers to effectively deploy it in the ‘new world’ of e-business. For the</div><div>purpose of this article, the focus of discussion is on e-business enterprises as most</div><div>observations are already evident in such organizations. However, most of the</div><div>arguments, observations and conclusions are also relevant to executives interested</div><div>in information strategy and business transformation for other post-industrial organizations</div><div>in the twenty-first century.</div>


Author(s):  
Mohamad Hanapi Mohamad ◽  
Ching Ing Sung

Malaysia, like many developing countries, is encouraging local businesses to take greater role in the management of its economy. While incentives and deregulation measures are offered, variations in performances still persist. Researchers have long been interested in explaining the variance in firm performance, as even those firms operating in the same industry and in the same business environment show differences in performance outcomes. Numerous paradigms in the literature have been employed to explain the variance in business performance, including the Classical Industry Organisation, the Revisionist school, the New Industrial Organisation school, the PIMS paradigm, the Austrian school, and the Resource-based school. This paper investigates the combined effects of managerial characteristics of owners/managers and business strategy on the firm performance of Chinese small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Malaysia. Using multivariate relationship, the results of the study did not show any significant correlation between the managerial characteristics of the owners/managers and firm performance outcomes among the Chinese entrepreneurs. Nevertheless, a significant amount of variance in performance outcomes can be explained by firm strategy. Furthermore, several significant correlations were found between managerial characteristics and business strategy.  


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunil Atulkar ◽  
Bikrant Kesari

Today the retail business environment becomes more complex and unpredictable in nature. In this research article researchers try to discus on engagement of arts in creating values in retail sector organisations. As the art based methods are used in various organisational developments, so this paper focused on four processes proposed by Darso and Dawids (2002) in retail sector organisation, to identify how these methods innovatively works on retail customers and why these process are important for the retail organisation performance. We identifies that the retailers should have to focus on the use of arts based method such as decoration, entertainment, developing the high skilled employees and attractive retail environment, enables customer to see the retail store environment more differently which helps in improving the performance of retail sector organisations. Based on the review of earlier published literatures, the present study shows that the uses of arts in creating shopping values more innovative, effectively and efficiently in retail sector organisations, have become a key to develop the effective business strategy to get competitive advantages over others. 


Author(s):  
Ved Prakash Bansal

Business environment and strategy faces continuous completion and impacts the business sustainability in a long-term. In a view, the business must realize the dynamic capabilities and must apply the right company strategy to survive in the global competition and achieving the desired targets. Many philosophers consider ethics to be the `science of conduct'. Philosophers have been discussing ethics for ages now, since the time of Socrates and Plato. Many ethicists consider emerging ethical beliefs to be "state of the art" legal matters, i.e., what becomes an ethical guideline today is often translated to a law, regulation or rule tomorrow. Values which guide how we ought to behave are considered as moral values, e.g., values such as respect, honesty, fairness and responsibility. The paper examines the concepts of strategy and business ethics undertaken  to improve the overall business performance.


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-174
Author(s):  
Lena Ellitan

This study has several main objectives as follows: (1) To explore how SMEs develop strategies based on their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and challenges. (2) Explore the various efforts of SMEs in anticipating the uncertainty of the business environment. (3) Exporting the efforts of SMEs to formulate their competitive strategies. (4) Exploring how environmental uncertainty affects the choice of a SMEs competitive strategy. (5) Explore the efforts of SMEs to formulate their operational strategies. (6) Exploring how competitive strategy affects SME operational strategies. (7) Exploring how competitive strategy and operating strategy affects SMEs business performance. This study uses a descriptive research approach that seeks to identify and map (mapping) the potential and characteristics of SMEs in Surabaya and its surroundings (Sidoarjo, Gresik) with the aim of obtaining an accurate and detailed descirption of the potential characteristics of small and medium enterprises in the Surabaya area and surroundings. Based on the phenomena found in this study, there are several things that can be underlined: uncertainty in the business environment does not affect the company’s business strategy. In carrying out their business strategy, SMEs usually use the following strategis: (1) Concering the development of skills to respond to the opportunities created by companies in the first market. What often happens is that many imitators improve or modify goods and services to create higher value for buyers. If so, entrepreneurs need to shift their competitiveness to other market segments by dominating small market segments that large companies sess as having no oppurtunity. (2) Changes in product, market, or industry characteristics based on innovation. This strategy is carried out by changing existing products and services, for example changing benefits, values, and other economic characteristics. 


2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Faridatus Saidah ◽  
Yuliani Dwi Lestari

This study examines critical factors in affecting halal business management, particularly challenges in Halal logistics implementation faced by the logistics service provider as well as its potential and opportunities for Halal based business in Indonesia. An In-depth, semi-structured interview is conducted to deepen the understanding and to provide detailed data of the study. The study found that there are several factors influencing halal logistics implementation. In terms of business strategy, there are external and internal factors that affect halal logistics practices. Such as market-driven, perception benefit of halal logistic certification followed by customer loyalty, challenges in implementing halal logistics, the complexity of operation halal logistics, and invariably regulation factors. All of those factors have become a prior factor in implementing halal logistics practices. The findings can provide a guideline in how to implement halal logistics practices in logistic service provider business, especially in transportation and warehousing process, along with the expected result for its business performance.


2021 ◽  
pp. 097172182110056
Author(s):  
Keungoui Kim ◽  
Junseok Hwang ◽  
Sungdo Jung ◽  
Eungdo Kim

Due to high uncertainty of product development and business environment, firm-level diversification has been regarded as one of the most effective methods in pharmaceutical firms. In previous study, firm-level diversification was discussed by different value chains of market, product, and technology. However, in most cases, the diversification itself was adopted in a simple manner although its property contains different aspects and the results varies depending on the diversity property of selected index. In addition, the existing approach for measuring firm’s product/market diversification using sales information distinguished by standard industry classification cannot provide direct implication as different strategies are made for market and product diversification. Therefore, this study examines the effects of firm-level diversification on business and innovation performances in pharmaceutical firms by considering (1) three diversification types: market, product, and technology, (2) clear separation between market and product diversification, and (3) two diversification perspectives: balance-centred and hetero-centred. For empirical analysis, an integrated firm-level data set combining from Medtrack, Orange Book, Compustat and Total Patent database is used. From the result, in case of market diversification, less market heterogeneity causes significant influence on business performance. For product and technology, a concentrated and greater heterogeneity of product diversification are turned out to promote business performance, while the more intensive and heterogeneous technology diversification has been shown to improve innovation performance.


2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-47
Author(s):  
Tatуana Ivanovna LOMACHENKO ◽  

Nowadays, there is no consensus that digitalization is a threat to business security or an opportunity to comprehensively manage the entire chain of business processes in real time, taking into account incoming data from all assets. However, political and economic instability, demand volatility, and competition are all a set of global challenges that digital transformation has responded to. In industry, the competitive advantage has become not the ownership of the enterprise, the firm, but access to digital technology, on which the efficiency of work with specific resources depends. The processes of forming individual business segments related to production management based on modern digital technology have already been launched and most companies are focused on this direction. The article reveals the features of the evolutionary stage of digital economy development, presents the relationship of this process with the formation of the conceptual framework from the theoretical foundations, substantiated in the 1990s by foreign and domestic scientists to modern approaches in the interpretation of digital economy definitions. The article proposes the structural dynamics of the digital economy in today's realities, revealing internal problems, opportunities for economic growth, maturity and readiness of the state to new ways of doing business in the digital economy and digital transformation, to form the country's national strategy. In addition, the conditions under which digital transformation opens up new opportunities for the business environment, the public sector and society as a whole are presented. Changes in business strategy, organizational forms, business process capabilities, new approaches in working with clients, competitive advantages, increase in profit sources are analyzed. As a result, the efficiency of the whole system increases, which allows to reach a fundamentally new level of production efficiency in a short time.


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