scholarly journals Efficiency of Retail Enterprises in Context of Achievement of Competitive Advantages: Ukrainian Realities

TEM Journal ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1072-1081
Author(s):  
Maryna Chorna ◽  
Lyubov Bezghinova ◽  
Oleksandr Dorokhov ◽  
Iryna Zhuvahina ◽  
Anatoly Volosov
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Evaluation Criteria ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Efficiency Assessment ◽  
Retail Business ◽  
Business Efficiency ◽  
Trade Sector ◽  
Efficiency Indicators

The development of trade sector of the Ukrainian economy triggers the need to study the processes of formation and evaluation of the retail business efficiency taking into account the current conditions of economic development. The objective of research is a methodology for assessing the performance of retail. The proposed methodology is based on the target, resource, dynamic approaches to the efficiency assessment and contains determined efficiency indicators in accordance with evaluation criteria. The indicators of the efficiency assessment take into account the specifics of the retail according to the subjects of assessment: retailer, consumer, competitor, supplier. Proposed methodology for assessing the efficiency allows us to calculate indicators in accordance with the selected approaches to the assessment and identify the problems to be addressed by the retailer’s management. Considering the requirements and interests of stakeholders to assess the efficiency of retail businesses helps to achieve the most recent competitive advantages.

Spatial Development of Innovation Systems in Russia

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 289-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lidija Sergevna Arkhipova
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Chemical Industry ◽  
Innovation System ◽  
Machine Building ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Regional Aspect ◽  
Level Of Economic Development ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Effective Development

While the development of the country's national innovation system as a whole is very important and should be prioritized, its regional aspect is even more important. The specifics of the Russian Federation's transition to an innovation-based economy is in that that, at the present time, prioritized is the need to ensure the effective development of those economy sectors that underlie the country's specialization and may provide regional and national competitive advantages. To such sectors belong the chemical industry, machine-building and power energetics. We would like to note that initial innovation awareness indicators in the regions are comparable and do not differ greatly but the growth of activity can be observed only in some of the regions. The problem of large differentiation among the constituent entities of the Russian Federation by their level of economic development remains important and has to be dealt with. 

scholarly journals Research of Development of Foreign Railway Companies Using Patent and Bibliometric Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-36
Author(s):  
M. M. Zheleznov ◽  
O. I. Karasev ◽  
E. A. Shitov ◽  
Yu. A. Shitova
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Applied Research ◽  
Publication Activity ◽  
Competitive Environment ◽  
Innovative Development ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Research Activity ◽  
Promising Technology ◽  
Patent Applications

The modern stage of economic development is intricately linked with accelerated pace of advancement in technology and hence introduces into basic corporate agenda the need to regularly benchmark best competitive practices. Considering highly competitive environment usual tools and metrics do not allow to reveal promising directions of innovative development, whose implementation will help in building new competitive advantages with similar companies. To reveal early signs, revealing emerging directions of innovative development, promising technology and decisions, global practices implement tools and instruments of patent and bibliometric search, allowing to assess current corporate practices in the field of both fundamental and applied research. The article presents the results of a research on activity of leading world railway companies in the field of technological and scientific research, and of priority directions of innovative development, obtained using tools of patent and bibliometric analysis. The research also described the dynamics and the structure of publications and patent applications in the railway sector, the differences in the structure of cooperative links of leading railway companies regarding publication and research activity. The article also studied structuring of patent and publication activity of some companies, showing priority directions of technological and scientific efforts.

scholarly journals IMPACT OF REGIONAL FACTORS ON SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF UNDERDEVELOPED REGIONS OF SIBERIA

2019 ◽  
pp. 59-64
Author(s):  
S. P. Mongush
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Transport Infrastructure ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Regional Economies ◽  
Highly Qualified ◽  
Qualified Personnel ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
Investment Capital ◽  
Business Entities ◽  
Negative Factors

Due to various factors, the regions of Russia have significant differences in the level of socio-economic development. Thus, each region of Russia has certain specific qualities inherent only to it, which must be taken into account when implementing regional policy. By reducing the influence of negative factors and, conversely, activating positive ones, it is possible to significantly increase the competitiveness of regional economies and the country as a whole. One of the features of the economies of the underdeveloped regions of Siberia is a significant share in their structure of low-productivity and low-tech industries, a lack of investment capital, low innovative activity of business entities, poor development of the territory, insufficient transport infrastructure, a shortage of highly qualified personnel and a number of others. The strategic priority of the state's economic policy in recent years in relation to underdeveloped regions is to achieve an acceptable average Russian level. In this regard, it becomes relevant to search for natural competitive advantages that can provide, through the correct and justified selection of "growth points" based on the use of the internal potential of such territories of their more dynamic development in relation to the most successful regions.

scholarly journals COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES OF ECOLOGICAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE REGION

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Shpileva ◽  
V. Bilyk
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Competitive Advantages

BENCHMARKING IN THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY

2006 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 171-182
Author(s):  
Ana Vizjak ◽  
Romina Alkier Radnić
Keyword(s):  
Production Process ◽  
Competitive Ability ◽  
Production Efficiency ◽  
International Economy ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Mutual Cooperation ◽  
Economic Concept ◽  
Management Personnel ◽  
Business Efficiency ◽  
Modern Economic

Benchmarking in the international economy – in particular, in the economies of the most advanced countries – has emerged fairly recently. This is a modern economic concept that implies improving the performance of a company’s practices with the aim of increasing its competitive ability. Benchmarking is carried out through the mutual cooperation of managers with colleagues in similar or differing businesses; exchanged visits; brief, active participation in other companies; and through other forms of cooperation, providing insight to the production process or various practices in other, usually competitive companies. In essence, benchmarking in a form of education for top management personnel, enabling them to achieve a higher degree of business efficiency, and in turn, to enhance the competitive ability of their business entity,enterprise, company, etc. Highly valued by the Japanese in the 1980s, this type of education resulted in outstanding business achievements by the companies that applied these models of analytical operations. Through the application of this model, managers were provided with insight to the practices of competitive companies. This knowledge acquired from others they sought to apply in their own companies and as a result, they succeeded in considerably improving both the business and production efficiency of their companies. The aim of benchmarking is to detect a company’s internal weaknesses and to identify the competitive advantages of its stronger rivals. The efficiency level of the competition is revealed through an analysis of date gathered.

CRITERIA FOR DEVELOPING AND EVALUATING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONES OF THE REPUBLIC OF UZBEKISTAN

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 79-85
Author(s):  
Madina Elmuradova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Special Economic Zone ◽  
Economic Indicators ◽  
Special Economic Zones ◽  
The World ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
Economic Zone ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Economic Zones ◽  
Efficiency Indicators

This article outlines special economic zones that play an important role in the socio-economic development of the country, and the use of this term in the reports of influential organizations around the world,as well as changes in the legislation of the Republic of Uzbekistan. In addition, the factors important for the effective functioning of the special economic zone, and the criteria for assessing the effectiveness of its activities are systematized and analyzed through the economic indicators of the SEZ "Navoi"Keywords:special economic zone, investment, free economic zone, export, import, efficiency indicators.

Innovation and Creativity Used by Private Sector Firms in a Resources-Constrained Environment

2018 ◽  
pp. 219-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hoang Thanh Nguyen ◽  
Scott A. Hipsher
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Business Owners ◽  
Field Observations ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Technology Advancement ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
Business Opportunities ◽  
New Business ◽  
Micro Enterprises

While innovation has become a popular topic when advocating for technology advancement and enhancing innovative processes in firms in both developed and developing economies, innovation in the context of micro-enterprises in emerging economies, such as Vietnam is not well understood nor has the topic been examined thoroughly. This chapter, in addition to looking at innovation within a micro-entrepreneurial context, includes a review of the academic literature on innovation, entrepreneurship, creativity, competitive advantages, and knowledge as some of the main drivers for social and economic development. Based on the field observations and interviews, it appears business owners of micro-enterprises in Vietnam might often use innovation by depending on their own individual adaptability and creativity to advance business opportunities by building upon existing knowledge as opposed to creating an entirely new business model or concept. Awareness of the nature of innovation within micro-enterprises could be helpful in designing governmental policies which are intended to create conditions which foster innovation and reduce throughout all levels of society and could have a role in reducing poverty.

Employing fuzzy ANP for ranking the personality of international brands in the sports shoe industry

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javad Khazaei Pool ◽  
S. Mohammad Arabzad ◽  
Sobhan Asian ◽  
Milad Fahimi ◽  
Reza Verij Kazemi
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Evaluation Criteria ◽  
Analytic Network Process ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Shoe Industry ◽  
Sport Shoe ◽  
Network Process ◽  
Quantitative Basis

Purpose This paper aims to provide a quantitative basis to analytically determine the ranking of the brand personality of Adidas, Asics, Nike, Puma and Saucony brands among Iranian customers via a conventional multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) method. Design/methodology/approach Data for determining the importance of evaluation criteria and ranking of brands are gathered by means of distributing questionnaires among a group of Iranian customers of sport shoes, as well as some industrial experts. The fuzzy analytic network process (FANP) was used to rank the brands with regard to dependencies between criteria and alternatives. Findings The results indicate that FANP is a capable method which provides invaluable insights for strategic marketing decisions in the sport product industry. Results show Adidas has the best performance in the sports shoe market compared to the other four brands. In this study, it was found that expertise sophistication was the most important criterion among Aaker’s five main criteria. Originality/value The value of this paper is applying FANP decision-making method for ranking sport shoe brands. This method has not been commonly used in the area of marketing, hence it is added to the pool of techniques used in ranking brands. In addition, evaluation and ranking of brands can be very useful for both academic research and practice. Researchers can benchmark the competences of each brand through evaluating them, and industrialists can extract the competitive advantages of the selected brands.

A Critical Vision of Disruptive Nanotechnologies

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 614-631 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guillermo Foladori ◽  
Noela Invernizzi
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Inclusive Development ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
Potential Barriers ◽  
Disruptive Technologies ◽  
New Form ◽  
Harmful Effects

AbstractNanotechnologies constitute one of the most innovative processes of production, and their products already reach all economic sectors. In view of their potential to boost economic development and competitiveness, governments have declared them areas of priority or strategic interest.In the framework of studies that deal with the evaluation of benefits, impacts, and harmful effects of new technologies, this article analyses the potential barriers to an inclusive development of nanotechnologies to improve the living conditions of broad sectors of the population. It is concluded that the discussion on disruptive technologies leaves aside the socio-economic and political context in which nanotechnologies are developed. It is in this context that the barriers to a more inclusive development aimed at improving the living conditions of the population must be sought. But, even if this target is not met, new technologies can result in market and competitive advantages, although deepening the gap in social inequality.The text is divided into two sections. In the first, the peculiarities of nanotechnologies are explained, allowing their identification as a new form of disruptive production. In the second, an analysis of the context in which nanotechnologies develop as well as their potential social implications is provided.

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