scholarly journals Responsive manufacturing: creating competitive advantage through domestic and international sourcing practices

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tarah Burke
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Local Economy ◽  
Brand Value ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Strategic Sourcing ◽  
Production Methods ◽  
Offshore Production ◽  
International Sourcing ◽  
Apparel Production ◽  
Responsive Manufacturing

This study analyzed factors affecting production choices and resulting benefits and challenges associated with apparel production sourcing. The research focused on sourcing strategies’ effect on competitive advantage. Data were gathered through interviews with production sourcing professionals in Canadian and U.S. apparel firms that use offshore, domestic, or combined offshore/domestic production methods. Findings indicate offshore production may result in lost time and profit due to lack of control, wasted materials, rising production and shipping costs, and decreased quality and consumer-perceived brand value. Localized manufacturing may increase firms’ competitive advantage through improved control of production processes; enhanced customization, adaptation, and response to consumer desire; increased perceived brand value; and reduced waste level, number of failed products, and markdowns. Strategic sourcing and smaller-scale, localized production also supports the local economy, thus creating apparel firms that are strategic, responsible, and profitable.

scholarly journals Responsive manufacturing: creating competitive advantage through domestic and international sourcing practices

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tarah Burke
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Local Economy ◽  
Brand Value ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Strategic Sourcing ◽  
Production Methods ◽  
Offshore Production ◽  
International Sourcing ◽  
Apparel Production ◽  
Responsive Manufacturing

This study analyzed factors affecting production choices and resulting benefits and challenges associated with apparel production sourcing. The research focused on sourcing strategies’ effect on competitive advantage. Data were gathered through interviews with production sourcing professionals in Canadian and U.S. apparel firms that use offshore, domestic, or combined offshore/domestic production methods. Findings indicate offshore production may result in lost time and profit due to lack of control, wasted materials, rising production and shipping costs, and decreased quality and consumer-perceived brand value. Localized manufacturing may increase firms’ competitive advantage through improved control of production processes; enhanced customization, adaptation, and response to consumer desire; increased perceived brand value; and reduced waste level, number of failed products, and markdowns. Strategic sourcing and smaller-scale, localized production also supports the local economy, thus creating apparel firms that are strategic, responsible, and profitable.

FACTORS AFFECTING THE COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES OF CITIMART

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 133-148
Author(s):  
Dr. Pham Hung Cuong ◽  
◽  
Nguyen Van Ngan ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Market Economy ◽  
World Market ◽  
Marketing Strategies ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Business Strategies ◽  
Living Standard ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Fast Development

According to Porter (1985), in the market of competition, competitive advantage lies in the center of business activities of an enterprise. For this reason, one of the most important factors for any kind of business is to build or construct a good and stable competitive advantage. The wealth of a company cannot be durable if the company does not maintain its competitive advantage. Improving the competitive advantage is one of the first and foremost concerns of every business. In the process of integration, all economies have to try their best to fully compete with each other to gain the best. Among the economy sectors, the retail enterprises are of those who have to apply marketing strategies to strengthen their competitive advantage. With good and suitable marketing strategies, businesses can increase the number of their customer, have goods and products attractive to consumers and finally gain the expected profits. In Vietnam, the market economy started at the end of 1986, much later than the world market economy, so the application of competitive advantages from the macro level to micro level (here the enterprise level) has been slow. For the sector of retailing, especially supermarket retailing, the market scale of Vietnam is much smaller than that of other markets in the region. However, there are basic factors for a fast development in Vietnam such as: big population with the kind of young population, high rate of economic growth rate and non-stop improved living standard. That is the fact that the potential for retailing development in Vietnam is not small and supermarket business in the future is big. In Vietnam, especially in Ho Chi Minh market, there are quite a lot of supermarket chains which are in operation nowadays such as Co-op mart, Citimart, Maximart, B-smart, Shop&Go and so on? These supermarkets are trying their best to gain more customers. For this purpose, the researcher chose Citimart as a case study in this research. Citimart is one of most favorable supermarket in Ho Chi Minh. In this thesis, the researcher studies the factors affecting the competitive advantage of Citimart, and then find out the solutions for the policy makers to have good business strategies of Citimart.

Knowledge Management

2009 ◽  
pp. 512-528 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Tran
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Concepts Of Knowledge ◽  
Meaning And Purpose

This chapter examines knowledge and innovation as invaluable factors affecting the longevity of large organizations. It presents the history and evolution of the concepts of knowledge and learning within organizations to provide grounds for establishing crucial factors affecting the development and maintenance of competitive advantage for large contemporary organizations. Thus the purpose of this chapter is to address the evolution of knowledge management, the meaning and purpose of knowledge management, and the organizational structure that supports such knowledge.

The impact of corporate environmental responsibility strategy on brand sustainability

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 366-394 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chengzhi Long ◽  
Jing Lin
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Environmental Responsibility ◽  
Brand Value ◽  
Corporate Environmental Responsibility ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Chinese Context ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

PurposeThough enormous research studies were conducted on corporate environmental responsibility (CER), few of them could empirically justify how CER helps to improve firm’s competitive advantage and firms are still hesitant to incorporate CER with their business strategy at present. The purpose of this paper is to theoretically and empirically explore how the CER strategy could help the firm to gain competitive advantage in Chinese context, particularly in terms of achieving brand sustainability (BS).Design/methodology/approachIn this study, 310 listed companies in China were chosen as research sample. First, the CER strategies were classified into developing eco-friendly products, adopting EMAS or other eco-management, enhancing the impact of CER through value chain and charitable CER. Second, BS is constructed as two dimensions, i.e. resource-acquisition and consumer impact. Accordingly, this paper analyzed the relationship between CER and BS with regression model analysis, taking account of several moderating and control variables.FindingsThe results indicate that CER strategies have positive effect on BS. Among all CER strategies, developing eco-friendly products and charitable CER undertakings are the most effective ones to promote BS performance. Also, the paper found that the length of time in adopting CER strategy moderates the effect of CER on BS. The empirical evidence proves that CER strategies could enhance the brand value in terms of BS and help the company to gain competitive advantage.Research limitations/implicationsFirst, most of our samples are of the state-owned enterprises, so our assumption might not be applicable to other types of business. Second, corporate social responsibility (CSR) communication is an important factor in the relation between CSR and corporate performance, but it is not taken into account in this study. Third, the difference in industries and ownership in this research is out of concern.Practical implicationsAs this paper has provided empirical evidence to reveal the effectiveness of different CER strategies, firms in China could be more motivated to undertake CER not only for the sake of environment but also for their brand value and competitive advantage. More importantly, this paper could be a valuable reference for the firms in China to choose suitable and effective CER strategies, as proved in this study, to gain competitive advantage in the market.Originality/valueAt first, while public environmental awareness has improved gradually, we introduce the BS concept to explain how the CER strategies affect CCA. This approach gives us another perspective to highlight the relationship between these two constructs. Second, we conducted our research from practical perspective to explore how to apply the CER undertakings as the company’s strategy. Third, we conducted our empirical research in Chinese context, which will enrich the theoretical CER and CSR literature.

scholarly journals Emotional Factors Affecting Knowledge Sharing Intentions in the Context of Competitive Knowledge Network

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 1510
Author(s):  
Hyeon Gyu Jeon ◽  
Kun Chang Lee
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Knowledge Network ◽  
Continuance Intention ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Emotional Factors

This study deals with a competitive knowledge network (CKN) where participants desire to pass their personally important exams, and henceforth want to contribute and seek knowledge about exam-related issues they need to solve. Besides, CKN members are basically competing with each other since they all aim to pass the same exams. Therefore, from the contributor’s perspective, if the advisor fears that his/her advice can be detrimental to his or her own benefits, knowledge sharing (KS) intention within the CKN may be hindered by their expectation of competitive advantage. However, few studies were done about the effects of such fear and a sense of competition on KS continuance intention in the context of CKN. In this sense, our study aims to elucidate the effects of competition and fear on KS continuance intention in a mobile CKN. By using 296 valid questionnaires, we obtained very meaningful conclusions such that competition is a driving force rather than an obstacle to KS among CKN members, and fear also enhances members’ sustainable KS intention.

The Effect of Consumer Characteristics and Behaviour on Pork Consumption in Malta. A Quantitative Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-58
Author(s):  
Joseph J. Abela
Keyword(s):  
Peer Influence ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Product Information ◽  
Local Economy ◽  
Research Tool ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Pork Consumption

The pig industry in Malta is important for the local economy and food safety. As is reported in Galli et al. (2016), Maltese people eat protein-rich diets although the Agriculture and Fisheries Census 2014 issued by the National Statistics Office reports a decrease in the number of pigs being bred on the island. This paper intends to analyse the pattern of Maltese consumer behaviour regarding pork consumption, eliciting the crucial factors affecting local consumption. This study forms part of an ongoing research studying the characteristics and behaviours of the Maltese pork consumer aimed to help the stakeholders in the industry to focus their strength on what is really expected by the consumers. Data was obtained through an online survey with questions/statements related to the demographic characteristics of the respondent, several Likert scale statements to analyse the purchase behaviour, and finally two questions to obtain the respondents’ weekly pork consumption. The research tool was tested for its reliability through an SPSS test, obtaining a Cronbach’s alpha value of 0.534. Data was reduced through Factor Analysis, from 17 factors to 5. The VARIMAX test was used to carry out the rotation necessary to reduce data. A resultant 5 factors gave 63% of the total variance in only 6 iterations and this was shown clearly in the scree plot. These five factors were named Product Quality, Peer Influence, Health Issues, Ethnocentrism, and Product Information. Statements found in the research tool were grouped according to their respective new factor and were analysed for their normality. Since the number of respondents was fewer than 100, the Shapiro Wilk test was used to determine if the data has a normal or non-normal distribution. All 5 new factors resulted skewed and therefore the Spearman Correlation test was used to test for the relationship between the Independent variables and the Dependant variables, between the Independent variables themselves, and between the Independent variables and the demographic information gathered. The correlation resulted significant in one Independent variable versus the Dependant variable, in 4 results between the Independent variables themselves, and in 4 results with regard to the relationship between the Independent variables and the Demographic factors. These results give a better picture of the local purchasing behaviour in relation to pork consumption as no previous study in this regard has been published locally before. It is intended to continue studying this phenomenon in the near future by increasing the sample size and making changes to the research tool in order to improve its reliability.

scholarly journals The Role of the Employees in the Innovation of the Hotel Enterprises

2019 ◽  
pp. 85-99
Author(s):  
Bekir Bora DEDEOĞLU ◽  
Şule Aydın ◽  
Erhan Boğan
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Consumer Perceptions ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Perceptions And Attitudes ◽  
Innovative Behaviors ◽  
The Way

Due to globalization, gaining competitive advantage has become an important problem for all enterprises. Especially hotel enterprises can face with certain problems such as providing similar and easily imitable products and services. Therefore, they are in the need of employees delivering services in such an innovative way that cannot be imitated easily. First in this chapter, the factors affecting the innovative behaviors of employees in hotel enterprises were examined in detail. Second, it was explained how employees’ innovative behaviors, which would bring a significant competitive advantage to hotel enterprises, could shape consumer perceptions and attitudes. Lastly, the matters to be taken into notice by hotel enterprises were mentioned and it was tried to pave the way for future researches so that hotel enterprises can benefit from their employees’ innovative behaviors in a more efficient way.

scholarly journals Logistics Capabilities in Achieving the Firm's Competitive Position and Market Success

2019 ◽  
Vol 82 ◽  
pp. 7-18
Author(s):  
Rafał Matwiejczuk
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Competitive Position ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Strategic Capabilities ◽  
Basic Characteristics ◽  
Logistics Capabilities ◽  
Significant Factors ◽  
Market Success

Firms are constantly looking for ways to build and strengthen their competitiveness. The most important dimensions of the firm’s competitiveness are the firm’s competitive position as well as the firm’s market success. An important role among the most significant factors affecting the firm’s competitiveness is assigned to the firm’s capabilities, including logistics capabilities. The aim of the article is to present the possibilities of the influence of the firm’s logistics capabilities on the firm’s competitive position as well as the firm’s achievement of market success. In particular, the following issues are presented in the article: (1) the nature of the firm’s capabilities, including dynamic capabilities perceived as its strategic capabilities; (2) the firm’s competitiveness and its basic characteristics; (3) the firm’s competitive advantage with its main dimensions concerning the competitive position and market success; (4) logistics capabilities perceived as the firm’s strategic capabilities affecting the firm’s competitive position and achievement of market success in light of the research.

scholarly journals FACTORS AFFECTING THE BRAND VALUE OF SOME PRIVATE ECONOMIC UNIVERSITIES IN HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM

2020 ◽  
pp. 70-83
Author(s):  
Huu Tran Ai ◽  
Hong Mai Thi Dao ◽  
Chieu Pham Thi My
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Quality Assessment ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Ho Chi Minh City ◽  
Brand Value ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Brand Reputation ◽  
Buying Decisions

Branding is extremely important as it has long-term implications for all organizations. Concerns about branding have been initially raised in the field of tangible products and are now shifting towards the service sector. The arguments are: (1) The intangible nature of the service makes consumers rely more on branding to support quality assessment and reduce the risk of buying decisions; (2) Many types of services need to rely on brand reputation to attract customers such as healthcare, consulting, education. Higher education is a special type of service with its own characteristics: highly intangible contents, the affects on human minds, difficulties with assessing the quality, emphasis on prestige, the need to have specific conditions to use. The above characteristics make the brand of a training/education institution become very important when future learners are making their choice.

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