scholarly journals Buyer–Supplier Contract Length and the Innovation of Supplier Firms

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 52
Author(s):  
Nguyen Thanh Liem ◽  
Nguyen Vinh Khuong ◽  
Nguyen Thi Canh
Keyword(s):  
Agency Cost ◽  
Manufacturing Firms ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Firm Innovation ◽  
Contract Duration ◽  
Corporate Innovation ◽  
Supportive Role ◽  
Firm Investments ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship with customers has important implications for operating decisions as well as firm performance. One important aspect of the supplier–buyer relationship is the contract duration, and how this factor is likely to affect firm investments has been under-researched. This study aims to investigate whether corporate innovation is linked to the maturity of contracts between suppliers and buyers. Using a sample of 1516 manufacturing firms in Vietnam for the period of 2014 to 2018, we find that longer-term contracts are positively related to firm propensity of innovation. However, only contracts with foreign purchasers have this characteristic, confirming the supportive role of foreign partners in uplifting the technology for domestic suppliers in a developing country. Interestingly, longer contracts do not tend to facilitate firm innovation or raise the aimed level of newness for firms with very long contracts compared with those that have short-term contracts. This is consistent with the agency cost theory. These findings are robust to different specifications and econometric approaches. Based on the findings, implications are provided to manage the relationship with customers more efficiently.

scholarly journals Factors affecting the organizational performance of manufacturing firms

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 184797901771262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmad Adnan Al-Tit
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Measurement Instrument ◽  
Manufacturing Firms ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Values And Beliefs ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Numerous studies have been conducted to explore the individual effects of organizational culture (OC) and supply chain management (SCM) practices on organizational performance (OP) in different settings. The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of OC and SCM on OP. The sample of the study consisted of 93 manufacturing firms in Jordan. Data were collected from employees and managers from different divisions using a reliable and valid measurement instrument. The findings confirm that both OC and SCM practices significantly predict OP. The current study is significant in reliably testing the relationship between SCM practices and OP; however, it is necessary to consider cultural assumptions, values and beliefs as the impact of OC on OP is greater than the impact of SCM practices. Based on the results, future studies should consider the moderating and mediating role of OC on the relationship between SCM practices and OP.

From corporate social responsibility activities to financial performance: role of innovation and competitive advantage

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahnoor Zahid ◽  
Hina Naeem ◽  
Iqra Aftab ◽  
Sajawal Ali Mughal
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Financial Performance ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Manufacturing Firms ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose The purpose of this study is to scrutinize the effect of corporate social responsibility activities (CSRA) of the firm on its financial performance (FP) and analyze the mediating role of innovation and competitive advantage (CA) in the relationship between CSRA and FP in the manufacturing sector of an emerging country, i.e. Pakistan. Design/methodology/approach Data has been collected through an electronic structured questionnaire from 300 middle-level and top-level managers by surveying different manufacturing firms of Gujranwala, Pakistan. The study’s hypotheses have been checked by analyzing the reliability and validity of data and applying confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling through statistical package for the social sciences and analysis of moment structures. Findings Outcomes of this study supported the hypothesized model. It has been found that the CSRA plays a significant positive role in determining the FP of the firm. Furthermore, the CA and innovation have been proved as significant mediators between CSRA and FP. Originality/value The first time examining the intermediation of innovation and CA in the relationship between CSRA and FP is the primary input of this study to the literature. Practically, this study’s findings will help strategy makers of manufacturing firms in emerging countries develop better strategies for implementing CSRA, enhancing innovation, seeking CA and improving FP.

scholarly journals IMPACT OF DIVIDEND PAYOUT ON FIRM’S PERFORMANCE UNDER LOW GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 1156-1165
Author(s):  
Taymoor Ali ◽  
Muhammad Kashif Khurshid ◽  
Adnan Ali Chaudhary
Keyword(s):  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Manufacturing Sector ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Manufacturing Firms ◽  
Growth Opportunities ◽  
Dividend Payout ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose of the study: The objective of the study was to investigate the relationship of the dividend payout on a firm's performance under low growth opportunities from the manufacturing sector of Pakistan. Methodology: A sample of 251 firms out of 378 manufacturing firms listed at the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX), have been carefully chosen for the era of ten years from 2006 to 2015. The secondary data was obtained from the firm’s web financials and analysis of financial statements, published by the statistics department of the State Bank of Pakistan. For the persistence of investigation panel data (fixed effect) analyses were employed in this study. Main Findings: The fallouts of the analysis revealed that the dividend payout ratio has an insignificant relationship with the firm's performance in the low growth perspectives of the study. Applications of this study: The findings of the study are helpful for the financial managers of the firms facing low growth opportunities. Furthermore, the investors in capital markets can use the findings of this while investing. The originality of this study: The study focussed on the role of low growth opportunities while studying the nexus of dividend pay-out and the firm’s financial performance which inherits the novelty and originality of the study.

Religion and Authority in a Korekore Community

Africa ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 172-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. F. C. Bourdillon
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Knowledge ◽  
Rites Of Passage ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Traditional Authority ◽  
Initiation Rites ◽  
Supportive Role ◽  
Opening Paragraph ◽  
The Relationship

Opening ParagraphIn her lucid and persuasive Henry Myers Lecture on ‘The power of rights’ (Man, 1977), Professor La Fontaine argues that since the Gisu themselves cite transition from one status to another as the purpose of their initiation rites, this transformation cannot logically explain them. Taking up Maurice Bloch's idea that religion is concerned with inequality and hierarchy (1974; 1977), La Fontaine argues convincingly that the explanation of Gisu initiation rites lies in their functions of validating traditional knowledge and of maintaining traditional authority. The relationship between religion and political power had been noticed before but it had not previously been applied to the field of rites of passage nor had the mechanism of the supportive role of traditional knowledge been so clearly analysed.

scholarly journals Potential Partnership of Community-based Management in Supporting The Utilization of Sustainable Resources in Indonesian Coastal Tourism

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-66
Author(s):  
Saiqa Ilham Akbar ◽  
Anisa Nurpita ◽  
Elton Buyung Satrianto
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Coastal Tourism ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Sustainable Resources ◽  
The Relationship

The application of community-based management (CBM) in managing coastal tourism in Indonesia is still limited to providing short-term benefits, especially for local communities and does not guarantee the sustainability of resources at large. On the other hand, most CBM partnership in Indonesia are still limited to the relationship between the local government and local communities and there is no clear partnership scheme in involving the role of third parties and private sectors that can increase the benefits of implementing CBM. This study aims to review and evaluate CBM policies and implementation in the coastal tourism in Indonesia, identifies the effectiveness of CBM implementations, and suggest an optimal CBM partnership scheme in the coastal tourism in Indonesia. The data used are primary data through questionnaires, interviews, and focus group discussion (FGD). Respondents in this study include members of hotel and restaurant association, CBM managers, local government, and businessmen in the coastal tourism area. This study uses investment attractiveness index to measure the effectiveness of CBM in each coastal tourism destination. The findings shows that the implementation of CBM in Indonesian coastal tourism mostly favored the local communities but draws little attention from bigger investment mainly because there is a lack of clear land regulation set by local government in coastal area.

scholarly journals “Setting people up for success and then failure” – health care and service providers’ experiences of using prize-based contingency management

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marilou Gagnon ◽  
Adrian Guta ◽  
Alayna Payne
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Contingency Management ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Ethical Concerns ◽  
Targeted Analysis ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Background Over the last 50 years, there has been a growing interest in and use of contingency management (CM) for people who use substances. Yet, despite showing some level of efficacy (albeit only short-term) and being praised by researchers as beneficial and cost-saving, it continues to be underutilized by health care and service providers. Why that is remains unclear. Methods Recognizing a gap, we conducted a targeted analysis of a larger set of qualitative interviews conducted on the experience of health care and service providers with incentives (including prize-based CM) (n = 25). Results Four themes were identified during the analysis: 1) The specificities of prize-based CM, 2) The role of providers in administering prize-based CM, 3) The positive and negative impact on the relationship, and 4) The ethical concerns arising from prize-based CM. Overall, our findings are consistent with existing literature and suggest that providers are wary of using prize-based CM because they tend to value effort over success, support over reward, honesty over deceit, and certainty over probability and variability. Conclusion Our analysis offers additional insights into the experiences of providers who use prize-based CM and possibly some indications as to why they may not wish to work with this type of incentive. The question raised here is not whether there is enough evidence on the effectiveness of prize-based CM, but rather if this type of incentive is appropriate and ethical when caring for people who use substances.

THE MODERATING ROLE OF ENVIRONMENTAL INTERPRETATION BETWEEN DYNAMIC CAPABILITIES AND FIRM CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENTS

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
DHIA NOMAN ◽  
ROHAIDA BASIRUDDIN
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Manufacturing Firms ◽  
Learning Capability ◽  
Environmental Interpretation ◽  
Operational Capabilities ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Moderating Role

The interpretation of managers of environmental changes helps in identifying the gaps between the environment and a firm’s capabilities. This in turn can support a firm’s ability to use dynamic capabilities in an effective way to reconfigure the firm’s resources into new operational capabilities that better match the environment and to exploit environmental opportunities. However, extant studies have ignored the moderating role of managers’ interpretation of environmental changes in the capabilities building paradigm. This study empirically examines the moderating role of environmental interpretation in the relationship between dynamic capabilities and improvement capabilities. To operationalise environmental interpretation to enable the development of a measurable model for this construct, which has yet to be developed, 209 large manufacturing firms were selected as a sample to study the relationship between environmental interpretation and firm’s capabilities. By applying the PLS-SEM technique, this study finds that environmental interpretation moderates the relationship between learning capability, integrating capability and coordinating capability and improvement capability.

scholarly journals The Role of Non-Verbal Interaction in a Short-Term Psychotherapy: Preliminary Analysis and Assessment of Paralinguistic Aspects

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego Rocco ◽  
Rachele Mariani ◽  
Diego Zanelli
Keyword(s):  
Preliminary Analysis ◽  
Speech Rate ◽  
Therapeutic Process ◽  
Verbal Interaction ◽  
Code Theory ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Referential Process ◽  
The Relationship

Analysis at a paralinguistic level of communication, already conceptualized within the multiple code theory, would appear to be very important in order to fully describe the quality of the patient-therapist relationship. In this study the therapeutic process and microprocess are analyzed taking into consideration a specific paraverbal aspect (speech rate) present in patient and therapist's communication. More specifically, in this paper we aim to investigate the relationship between the speech rate of both patient and therapist with the linguistic aspects of their referential process as obtained by the IDAAP dictionaries, relating to three sessions belonging to different phases of the psychotherapy. The results show that there are many significant correlations between the considered values. These findings are interpreted as an expression of the alignment between patient and therapist which can be linked to the outcome of the psychotherapy.

scholarly journals Faking It for the Higher-Ups: Status and Surface Acting in Workplace Meetings

2017 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Shumski Thomas ◽  
Jessie L. Olien ◽  
Joseph A. Allen ◽  
Steven G. Rogelberg ◽  
John E. Kello
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Psychological Safety ◽  
Surface Acting ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Working Adults ◽  
Job Level ◽  
Meeting Effectiveness ◽  
The Relationship

Recent evidence suggests that surface acting occurs in workplace meetings. Even in light of these findings, it remains unknown why employees would choose to surface act in meetings with their colleagues and supervisors, and how this form of emotion regulation affects employees in the short term. A sample of working adults were asked to report their levels of surface acting during multiple workplace meetings. Results indicate that employees engage in surface acting during meetings, and that their surface acting is positively related to the presence of higher status attendees in these meetings. In addition, surface acting during meetings is negatively related to perceptions of both meeting psychological safety and meeting effectiveness. We also highlight the important role of one’s job level as a moderating condition when examining the relationship between surface acting and perceived meeting effectiveness. Our results suggest that individuals who are higher up in an organization’s hierarchy may perceive meetings as less effective when they surface act when compared with individuals who are in lower levels of the organization.

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