scholarly journals The main aspects of choosing the enterprises' operating strategy

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. s359-s375
Author(s):  
Yuliia Karpenko ◽  
Anzhelika Pienova ◽  
Dmytro Melnychuk ◽  
Valentyna Kutsyk ◽  
Nataliya Nakonechna ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Corporate Strategy ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Retail Trade ◽  
Logical Scheme ◽  
Important Place ◽  
General Direction ◽  
Operational Strategy ◽  
Output Information ◽  
Retail Services

Retail trade occupies an important place in the economy of Ukraine, ensuring the sale of manufactured goods to end consumers. For retailers, it is important to achieve timeliness and reliability of services to meet customer needs, which can be achieved through the formation of operational strategy. The purpose of the article is to form a methodological approach to the development of operational strategy of retail enterprises, which is based on the requirements of corporate strategy, selected in accordance with the stage of the life cycle of the industry. The development of this methodological approach was carried out on the basis of  Hill's model and system approach. As a result, a logical scheme of the process of developing an operational strategy is presented, which is specified by the list of input and output information. In order to determine the stage of the life cycle of the market of retail services in Ukraine, the eponymous concept of Porter was applied and the analysis was carried out according to the criteria: consumers and their behaviour, sales costs, changes in services, the nature of competition, profitability and found that the retail services market is growing. The method of observation, comparative and analytical method was used for the analysis, the Herfindahl-Hirschman index (HHI) was calculated on the basis of the data of the largest retail trade enterprises of Ukraine. As a result, it was found that the market of retail services in Ukraine is growing. With this in mind, an operational strategy for Ukrainian retailers has been proposed, which should aim to ensure the flexibility and variability of the operating system. The defined general direction of the operational strategy will allow to establish the content of decisions on the choice of operational processes, as well as the infrastructure to support them.

Life Cycle of Construction Objects at Information Simulation of Buildings and Structures

2019 ◽  
pp. 65-72 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Life Cycle Management ◽  
Information Modeling ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Logical Scheme ◽  
Modeling Technology ◽  
Information Models ◽  
Building Information ◽  
The Russian Federation

The variants of the division of the life cycle of a construction object at the stages adopted in the territory of the Russian Federation, as well as in other countries are considered. Particular attention is paid to the exemplary work plan – "RIBA plan of work", used in England. A feature of this document is its applicability in the information modeling of construction projects (Building information Modeling – BIM). The article presents a structural and logical scheme of the life cycle of a building object and a list of works that are performed using information modeling technology at various stages of the life cycle of the building. The place of information models in the process of determining the service life of the building is shown. On the basis of the considered sources of information, promising directions for the development of the life cycle management system of the construction object (Life Cycle Management) and the development of the regulatory framework in order to improve the use of information modeling in construction are given.

Employees as a vector of strategic intent: an examination of corporate, social and environmental strategic intent recognition by employees

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pat Auger ◽  
Timothy M. Devinney ◽  
Grahame Dowling
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Corporate Strategy ◽  
Performance Metrics ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Environmental Strategy ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Strategic Intent ◽  
Csr Strategy ◽  
Corporate Social

PurposeOne of the hallmarks of strategizing is having a clearly articulated vision and mission for the organization. It has been suggested that this provides a compass bearing for the organization's strategy, helps in motivation, commitment and retention of employees, serves as a guide to internal sensemaking and decision-making, has a potential performance effect, helps establish the identity of the organization and positions its desired reputation. The compass bearing role is important because it guides the selection of the goals and strategic orientation of the organization which in turn shapes its overall strategy and much of its internal decision making. The inspirational role is important because it helps to motivate and engage employees and other stakeholders.Design/methodology/approachThis study provides a more rigorous indication as to whether employees can, in the first instance, recognize and distinguish their corporate and environmental strategy from that of their competitors within their own industry and random other companies from other industries. This first issue addresses, to a degree, if and why, such strategic communiqués are effective inside a range of different organizations. Secondly, the authors examine whether there are any specific individual level effects that could explain variations in these responses. Finally, the authors examine the extent to which the recognition rates the authors observe, relate to how employees are rewarded through appraisals, promotions and salary increases. This helps in the authors’ understanding of the role of hard incentives versus soft motivations. The authors’ approach to assessing employee knowledge of their organization's strategy is unique. Rather than survey employees about their knowledge, the authors use a matching study and a discrete choice measurement model to assess if they can recognize their organization's strategy from those of their competitors and some other randomly selected organizations. This approach allows us to mitigate social desirability and common method biases and directly estimate the underlying behavioral model being used to assess their organization's strategy.FindingsOverall, the authors found that few employees could correctly identify their corporate strategy statements. In the case of corporate strategy statements, the authors find that, on average, only 29 percent of employees could correctly match their company to its publicly espoused corporate strategy. When the authors look at the environmental sustainability strategy of the firm, this is worse overall, with individuals doing no better than random on average. When the authors look at company training and communication practices across the realm of different strategies, the authors see a number of factors leading to the general results. First, most of the authors’ respondents could not recall a significant effort being given to communication and training by their employer. Indeed, most communication/training is simply related to having documentation/brochures available. Second, respondents indicated that more effort is put into communicating corporate strategy to employees in a more systematic manner than communication about environmental/corporate social responsible (CSR) strategy. Third, the authors see that individuals are evaluated more on and give more weight to, evaluations relating to their ability to meet individual/group financial and market performance metrics (targets) and work as a team than their involvement in environmental and social responsibility programs. Finally, the employees studied seemed to be more confident in understanding the corporate strategy. When asked to put their corporate strategy into words – a task the authors asked respondents to do after the matching phase of the study – 40% of participants did so for the corporate strategy but only 14% did so for the environmental strategy and seven percent for the CSR strategy.Practical implicationsThe primary implication of the study is that the values-mission-strategy logic of strategic motivation seems to have limited validity and with respect to the view that employees are a vector of corporate strategy. It is hard to argue that employees can be a vector for something they cannot recall or even distinguish between.Originality/valueThe study is unique in terms of (1) asking the very simple question of whether employees internalize their company's strategies and (2) in the methodological approach to examine employee knowledge and informativeness.

scholarly journals Ciclo de vida turístico de uma comunidade litorânea: o caso de Pontal de Coruripe (AL)

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Priscylla Maria Ferreira da Silva ◽  
Lindemberg Medeiros de Araujo ◽  
Silvana Pirillo Ramos
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Palm Tree ◽  
Environmental Consequences ◽  
Hotel Managers ◽  
Internal And External Factors

O turismo, como fenômeno socioespacial baseado nos deslocamentos humanos, é motivado principalmente pelo consumo de paisagens. Ao se instalar em um determinado lugar, o turismo desencadeia diversas transformações econômicas, sociais, culturais e ambientais. Fatores internos e externos interferem no ciclo de desenvolvimento dos lugares turísticos. A adequação das tipologias turísticas à realidade local e a forma de gestão da atividade, considerando as características singulares de cada paisagem, são os fatores centrais que determinam os tipos de efeitos que serão ocasionados. Para as populações receptoras os efeitos do turismo são diretos uma vez que a atividade dinamiza o cotidiano local. Este trabalho tem como recorte espacial de análise o povoado Pontal de Coruripe, localizado no município de Coruripe, litoral sul alagoano. Conhecido pelo artesanato em palha de ouricuri e por suas belezas naturais, como todo espaço receptivo Pontal de Coruripe sofre as influências decorrentes da sua turistificação. Este estudo tem como objetivo compreender a constituição e desenvolvimento do Pontal do Coruripe como lugar turístico, por meio da caracterização de seu ciclo de vida turístico. O modelo do ciclo de vida do lugar turístico, conhecido na literatura internacional pela sigla TALC (Tourism Area Life Cycle), foi publicado por Richard W. Butler, em 1980, e desde então vem sendo utilizado para o estudo de destinações, lugares ou atrativos turísticos, visando identificar o estágio atual em que o objeto estudado se encontra e, por conseguinte, a visualização da trajetória passada e possíveis caminhos futuros. O ciclo de vida de Pontal de Coruripe foi analisado a partir das dimensões econômica e social, considerando o recorte temporal que se estende desde o período anterior à chegada do turismo ao lugar, antes de 1985, até o ano de 2015. O trabalho se caracteriza como um estudo de caso com abordagem metodológica qualitativa. Os sujeitos da pesquisa são os gestores dos meios de hospedagem. Os dados foram coletados através de entrevistas com roteiros semiestruturados, observação direta, levantamento fotográfico e pesquisa documental. O trabalho apresenta o histórico da oferta de unidades habitacionais no destino, as características do seu ciclo de vida, assim como as expectativas relacionadas ao futuro do turismo em Pontal de Coruripe. Tourist life cycle of a sea-side place: the case of Pontal de Coruripe (AL, Brazil) ABSTRACT As a socio-spatial phenomenon based on leisure travel, tourism is motivated mainly by the consumption of landscapes. When tourism is inserted in a place it unleashes a change process with economic, social, cultural and environmental consequences. Both internal and external factors influence a place’s tourism development cycle. Tourism typologies adapted to local characteristics and the management approach in accordance with the singular characteristics of each landscape are the key factors determining the types of caused effects. Tourism development causes direct impacts on host communities as tourist activities change the daily local socio-economic dynamics. This work focuses on Pontal de Coruripe, a community of the municipality of Coruripe which is located in the south littoral of the Alagoas state, Brazil. Pontal de Coruripe, known for its handicraft made from leaves of the ouricuri palm tree as well as for its beautiful natural characteristics, is affected by its touristification. The objective of this study is to understand the formation and development of Pontal de Coruripe as a tourist place on the basis of its tourist area life cycle.The model of the tourist area life cycle (TALC) was developed by Richard W. Butler and published in 1980, and since then it has been widely used to study tourist destinations, places and attractions with the aim of identifying the stage in which a tourist area is placed, thus understanding its historical development and the possible ways in which it may develop from then. Pontal de Coruripe’s TALC was analyzed with a focus on its economic and social dimensions, since before touristification started – prior to 1985 – up until when this study implemented, in 2015. The research was developed as a case study using a qualitative methodological approach. Data collection used a semi-structured interview schedule which was run with hotel managers as well as observation, a photographic survey and document perusal. Results present the historical development of the offer of hotel rooms in Pontal de Coruripe, the characteristics of its TALC, as well as the expectations as to how tourism may develop into the future in this community. KEYWORDS: Tourism; Destination; Life Cycle; Alagoas.

scholarly journals Identification and Selection of Alternative Scenarios in LCA Studies of Integrated Waste Management Systems: A Review of Main Issues and Perspectives

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (10) ◽  
pp. 2430-2442 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valentino Tascione ◽  
Andrea Raggi
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Decision Support Tool ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Support Tool ◽  
Integrated Waste Management ◽  
Alternative Scenarios ◽  
Environmentally Sound ◽  
Definition Of

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a decision support tool that can be used to assess the environmental performance of an integrated waste management system or to identify the system with the best performance through a comparative analysis of different scenarios. The results of the analysis depend primarily on how the scenarios to be compared are defined, that is on which waste fractions are assumed to be sent to certain treatments/destinations and in what amounts. This paper reviews LCAs of integrated waste management systems with the aim of exploring how the scenarios to be compared are defined in the preliminary phase of an LCA. This critical review highlighted that various criteria, more or less subjective, are generally used for the definition of scenarios. Furthermore, the number of scenarios identified and compared is generally limited; this may entail that only the best option among a limited set of possibilities can be selected, instead of identifying the best of all possible combinations. As a result, the advisability of identifying an integrated life cycle-based methodological approach that allows finding the most environmentally sound scenario among all of those that are theoretically possible is stressed.

scholarly journals Definition of LCA Guidelines in the Geothermal Sector to Enhance Result Comparability

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (14) ◽  
pp. 3534 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Laura Parisi ◽  
Melanie Douziech ◽  
Lorenzo Tosti ◽  
Paula Pérez-López ◽  
Barbara Mendecka ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Geothermal Energy ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Geothermal Systems ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Large Variability ◽  
Low Carbon Economy ◽  
Methodological Choices ◽  
Construction Operation

Geothermal energy could play a crucial role in the European energy market and future scenarios focused on sustainable development. Thanks to its constant supply of concentrated energy, it can support the transition towards a low-carbon economy. In the energy sector, the decision-making process should always be supported by a holistic science-based approach to allow a comprehensive environmental assessment of the technological system, such as the life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology. In the geothermal sector, the decision-making is particularly difficult due to the large variability of reported results on environmental performance across studies. This calls for harmonized guidelines on how to conduct LCAs of geothermal systems to enhance transparency and results comparability, by ensuring consistent methodological choices and providing indications for harmonized results reporting. This work identifies the main critical aspects of performing an LCA of geothermal systems and provides solutions and technical guidance to harmonize its application. The proposed methodological approach is based on experts’ knowledge from both the geothermal and LCA sectors. The recommendations cover all the life cycle phases of geothermal energy production (i.e., construction, operation, maintenance and end of life) as well as a selection of LCA key elements thus providing a thorough base for concerted LCA guidelines for the geothermal sector. The application of such harmonized LCA framework can ensure comparability among LCA results from different geothermal systems and other renewable energy technologies.

scholarly journals Construct-it: A board game to enhance built environment students’ understanding of the property life cycle

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 186-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Hayhow ◽  
E.A. Parn ◽  
D.J. Edwards ◽  
M. Reza Hosseini ◽  
C. Aigbavboa
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Board Game ◽  
Proof Of Concept ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Industry Practice ◽  
Traditional Classroom Teaching ◽  
Future Work

This article investigates the development of a board game entitled ‘Construct-it’ as an innovative pedagogical approach (as proof of concept) to augmenting the applied knowledge and understanding of built environment students studying property life cycle analysis. A largely qualitative and inductive methodological approach is conducted to identify and investigate the various pertinent theoretical frameworks that could be adopted; conduct a critical synthesis of extant literature; and develop Construct-it, a game intuitively grounded in practice-based knowledge. The study reveals that games provide a fun, engaging and challenging means of educating students at higher education institutions. It also notes a significant dearth of literature in terms of applying games to students enrolled on built environment programmes. Construct-it can enhance the student’s learning experience and knowledge of pertinent industry practice and standards and can complement traditional classroom teaching approaches. The study concludes with directions for the future work required to enhance the development of the novel pedagogical proof of concept presented. Such work will require robust testing and validation of the game to measure its impact on the student learning experience.

scholarly journals Methodical approach to forecasting costs for updating and using arms and military equipment park

2021 ◽  
pp. 37-45
Author(s):  
Oleksii Leontiev ◽  
Maryna Naumenko
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Service Life ◽  
Failure Rate ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Operating Conditions ◽  
Operating Costs ◽  
Residual Service Life ◽  
Purchase Price ◽  
Military Equipment ◽  
The Cost

A methodological approach to forecasting the cost costs at the main stages of the life cycle of a sample of weapons and military equipment, as one of the most important carriers of the capabilities of military organizational-staff formations, is proposed, which is carried out when substantiating measures for developing the capabilities of troops in the course of long-term and medium-term defense planning. The methodological approach is based on the use of the concept of a typical distribution of the cost of the life cycle of a sample by stages and stages, which allows in a formalized form to link costs at each stage of the purchase price of a serial product of a sample of weapons and military equipment of a specific type and type, taking into account the choice of a specific way of obtaining weapons and military equipment. It is proposed to forecast the volume of necessary costs at the stage of operation and support, taking into account the uneven distribution of these costs during this stage of the life cycle of a separate product. For this, it is proposed to divide the entire period of the duration of the operation stage into two main parts. The first part corresponds to the operating conditions of the product with a constant failure rate of the equipment after the completion of a short running-in process, and the operating costs per unit of time on it are considered the same throughout its duration. A formalized expression is proposed for obtaining the predicted value of these costs depending on the purchase price of the product. In the second part of the period of operation and support of a product of weapons and military equipment, operating costs per unit of time change over time according to an exponential law, reflecting the fact that operating costs increase with an increase in the failure rate as it approaches the assigned service life, which corresponds to the laws, known from the general theory of reliability of technology. The specifics of forecasting the costs of operation and support of a product obtained by import and which has already been in operation and has a residual service life have been determined.

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