A Review of Constructivism in the African Leather Sector Value Chain: Mapping Institutional Orientation Towards Knowledgeability of Value Addition

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Mwinkione Mwinyihija ◽  
Mwinkione Mwinyihija
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Value Addition ◽  
Threshold Concept ◽  
Transformational Process ◽  
Critical Theories ◽  
The Future ◽  
Skilled Workforce ◽  
Productivity And Competitiveness

The paper attempts to review how three critical theories; Stakeholder, constructivist and threshold concept assist in deciphering the challenges associated with knowledgeability in the realm of the leather sector development. The attention draws on the aspect of incomprehension or apperception as a new challenge that potentially impedes Africa’s struggle to transform from commodity dependence to leather product development. Interestingly, the study takes recognition of the importance of skilled workforce availability and relates this to the prospects of value creation. Therefore, the model envisages through its design that potentially, nurture the culture of innovation and subsequently positively impact on productivity and competitiveness in the leather sector. The main outcome of the study indicates that adaption at the Africa Leather and Leather Product Institute (ALLPI) on the theories mentioned played a fundamental role in the transformational process and sustainability of the leather sector. However, if the challenges identified are not curbed the sector will exhibit tensions, and if unchecked, could in the future erode progressive milestones considered core to the leather value chain development of the leather sector in Africa.

scholarly journals Out of the COVID-crisis Perspectives

2021 ◽  
pp. 79-86
Author(s):  
V.B. Kondratiev
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chains ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Medium Term ◽  
Mining Companies ◽  
The Future ◽  
End To End ◽  
Investment Patterns

It is interesting to have a look at how the previous crisis periods can teach us to predict the outcomes of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mining industry and the prospects for recovery from the COVID crisis. The mining industry is known to be cyclical, which leads to volatility in the prices of raw materials and shares of mining companies, as well as a change in investment patterns. As the COVID-19 crisis affects the medium-term pricing outlook for many commodities and puts pressure on planned investments, mining companies have a unique opportunity and need to rethink their capital expansion strategies. The unprecedented coronavirus pandemic crisis is also forcing companies to consider transforming their supply chains in the future. Improving the efficiency of the end-to-end value chain from production to market can be a major source of value creation in perspectives.

AFRICA’S RENAISSANCE AND POTENTIAL IN THE LEATHER SECTOR WITH REFLECTION TO THE GLOBAL PERFORMANCE

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mwinyihija M.
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Middle Level ◽  
Individual Member ◽  
Socioeconomic Indicators ◽  
Value Add ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Productivity And Competitiveness ◽  
Critical Aspects

Africa’s renaissance is inevitable and rapidly emerging as a reality in tandem with the continent’s continued exploration of its natural resources in a more sustained way than previously done. Currently, the clarion call is to value add, avoid plundering and involve its population through the SME’s to adapt modern methods of entrepreneurship. During the study, critical aspects that are envisaged to trigger the growth and development of Africa, included the entry of major countries of the continent into the global emerging markets such as MINT (Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria and Turkey) and BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa). For the leather sector, certain socioeconomic indicators such as the youthful participation in the value chain, ownership status, literacy levels and acquired experiences are all contributing to a vibrant sector. It was observed that these indicators if well aligned with individual member states of African Union Commission and structured than productivity and competitiveness of leather products will be attained. As such, ease of either foreign direct investment, local recapitalization and development of the SME’s could become feasible. Indeed, with the emergence of over 300 million youth at middle level income level is construed to start building on the impact of the continents purchasing power. Therefore, Africa needs to respond by address on development of ICT, develop affordable financial support to provide stimulus packages to SME’s (Small and Medium Enterprises) to transform, improve on inter and intra trade to optimize on unexplored synergies and enhance mobility of persons with in Africa as preamble to Africa’s renaissance.

scholarly journals Project Narratives That Potentially Perform and Change the Future

2021 ◽  
pp. 875697282199534
Author(s):  
Natalya Sergeeva ◽  
Graham M. Winch
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Future Research Agenda ◽  
Project Life Cycle ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Future ◽  
Organizational Narrative ◽  
Project Life ◽  
Future Project

This article develops a framework for applying organizational narrative theory to understand project narratives that potentially perform and change the future. Project narratives are temporal but often get repeated throughout the project life cycle to stabilize meaning, and could be about project mission, vision, identity, value creation, and so forth. Project narratives have important implications for organizational identity and image crafting. This article differentiates among different types of project narratives in relation to a project life cycle, providing case studies of project narratives on three major UK rail projects. We then set out the future research agenda into project narrative work.

Unterstützung manueller Tätigkeiten*/Supporting manual tasks - Using the example of the quality-critical process of scarfing of CFRP structures

2016 ◽  
Vol 106 (09) ◽  
pp. 624-630
Author(s):  
R. Weidner ◽  
R. Rodeck ◽  
J. P. Prof. Wuldfsberg ◽  
T. Prof. Schüppstuhl
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Fiber ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Support Systems ◽  
Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic ◽  
Fiber Reinforced Plastic ◽  
Production Processes ◽  
Reinforced Plastic ◽  
The Future ◽  
Manual Tasks ◽  
Critical Process

Trotz Streben nach dem Automatisieren von Produktionsprozessen in vielen Bereichen werden manuelle Tätigkeiten auch in Zukunft einen hohen Stellenwert bei der Wertschöpfung einnehmen. Ein Ansatz zur Lösung der damit verbundenen Herausforderungen sind Unterstützungssysteme nach dem Konzept des „Human Hybrid Robot – HHR“. Dieser Beitrag stellt konzeptionelle Überlegungen für entsprechende Systeme am Beispiel des Schäftens von Strukturen aus kohlefaserverstärkten Kunststoffen (CFK) vor.   Despite all efforts for the automation of production processes in numerous areas, manual tasks will continue to play an important role within value creation chains in the future. Support systems based on the concept of the “Human Hybrid Robot – HHR” are one approach to solve the challenges related to this. On this basis, the article introduces conceptual considerations for appropriate systems using the example of scarfing of carbon fiber reinforced plastic structures.

INNOVATIVE TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE VALUE CHAIN OF PHARMACEUTICAL ENTERPRISES

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Катерина Копішинська ◽  
Катерина Зінченко
Keyword(s):  
Correlation Analysis ◽  
Linear Relationship ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Pharmaceutical Companies ◽  
Development Scenarios ◽  
Current State ◽  
Pharmaceutical Enterprises

The research is devoted to the substantiation of the necessity of innovative transformations of the value chain of pharmaceutical enterprises. The current state of the international pharmaceutical market and its development scenarios developed by the WTO were analyzed, taking into account the changes caused by the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. The typology of value chains is considered and their element-by-element characteristics are given. A new, modern model of interaction in the chain of value creation of products is proposed. The substantiation of efficiency of creation of such chains is given. Based on the correlation analysis, the presence of a linear relationship between the indicators of Pharmaceutical R&D Spend and Revenue was established. To maximize the effect of R&D costs, pharmaceutical companies are recommended to carry out innovative transformations of the value chain, involving external manufacturers of high-tech devices, applications, etc.

Artificial Intelligence as a Growth Engine for Health Care Startups: Emerging Business Models

2018 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Massimo Garbuio ◽  
Nidthida Lin
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Health Conditions ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future

The future of health care may change dramatically as entrepreneurs offer solutions that change how we prevent, diagnose, and cure health conditions, using artificial intelligence (AI). This article provides a timely and critical analysis of AI-driven health care startups and identifies emerging business model archetypes that entrepreneurs from around the world are using to bring AI solutions to the marketplace. It identifies areas of value creation for the application of AI in health care and proposes an approach to designing business models for AI health care startups.

scholarly journals Marketing of orange: a value chain perspective in the selected areas of Sylhet District in Bangladesh

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 327-338
Author(s):  
M Begum ◽  
MR Ahmed ◽  
T Noor ◽  
MI Hossain
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Cash Income ◽  
Fruit Crops ◽  
Value Addition ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Interview Technique ◽  
A Value ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

Orange is one of the most import fruit crops that generate additional cash income for market actors. The study was investigated the marketing system of orange , value addition, roles and functions of value chain actors with the help of primary data collected from both farmers (forty) through simple random sampling and value chain actors (thirty) through purposive sampling by using structured questionnaire and face to face interview technique. The gross return and net return of farmers were estimated Tk. 2, 70,000 and Tk. 22084.77 per hectare respectively. Per quintal value addition of orange of bepari, aratdar, wholesaler and retailer were estimated at Tk. 800, Tk. 340, Tk. 700 and Tk. 1000 respectively. The net marketing margin per quintal of orange of bepari, aratdar, wholesaler and retailer were estimated at Tk. 293.59, Tk. 107.32, Tk. 356.46 and Tk. 700.8 respectively. Among the different actors, retailer incurred highest (in percentage) value addition and net marketing margin. On the other hand, aratdar incurred lowest marketing cost and marketing margin and bepari incurred highest (in percentage) marketing cost but adding second highest value in compare to another.Progressive Agriculture 27 (3): 327-338, 2016

scholarly journals Research on the Development Process and Optimization Path of Crowdsourcing in China

2021 ◽  
Vol 235 ◽  
pp. 02076
Author(s):  
Yanrong Huang ◽  
Bin Huang ◽  
Min Chen
Keyword(s):  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Future Development ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Open Innovation ◽  
Development Process ◽  
The Public ◽  
Operation Process ◽  
Development Direction ◽  
The Future ◽  
Important Form

Crowdsourcing is an important form for enterprises to realize open innovation, which can gather the wisdom of the public and gather talents from various fields to participate in technological innovation and value creation. This paper systematically reviews the emergence and development of crowdsourcing in China, analyzes the causes and characteristics of the four stages of crowdsourcing development with the clue of major events in the development process of crowdsourcing; takes the operation process of crowdsourcing as the breakthrough point, discusses the bidirectional driving optimization path for the benign rolling development of crowdsourcing mode under the background of “mass entrepreneurship and innovation”; and prospects. Finally, the future development direction of crowdsourcing mode is pointed out.

scholarly journals Strategic Value Creation in a Supply Chain

2016 ◽  
pp. 186-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gowri Vijayan ◽  
Nitty Hirawaty Kamarulzaman ◽  
Aroop Mukherjee ◽  
Selvakkumar K. N. Vaiappuri
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Sustainable Supply Chain ◽  
Value Chain Analysis ◽  
Horizontal Integration ◽  
Analysis Model ◽  
Supply Chain Strategy ◽  
Strategic Value

This chapter is designed to give the readers a concise understanding of supply chain strategies and the process involved in its formation. It is a background study on the changing role of supply chain in gaining competitive advantage for the firm. The chapter discusses on traceability and integration along a supply chain, its inception and the advantages to the corporate world through its implementation. The chapter focuses on the topic of value creation in a supply chain through strategic management decisions like vertical and horizontal integration. The value chain analysis model for competitive advantage is covered in this chapter. A discussion on the differences between vertical and horizontal integration systems and the best strategic decision among them is provided. The concepts of sustainable supply chain integration, traceability, and the limitations to their implementation have also been discussed. The best examples on practitioners of supply chain strategy and integration are provided along the chapter.

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