Analyzing the Strategy of Sustainable Competitive Advantage in Taiwan’s Photovoltaic Industry

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 42-57
Author(s):  
Yi-Fen Chen ◽  
Chang-Lung Hsieh ◽  
Wen-Yu Chen ◽  
Chai-Wen Tsai ◽  
Lee-Wei Wei
Keyword(s):  
Solar Energy ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Analytic Network Process ◽  
Global Environment ◽  
Sustainable Competitive Advantage ◽  
Energy Problem ◽  
Diversification Strategy ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
The World ◽  
Network Process

Solar energy is one of the most popular resources in recent years. It has seemed as the best alternative for solving energy problem and protecting global environment. Moreover, many countries are very enthusiastic about the development of PV industry. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to find out the best strategy for Taiwan’s photovoltaic (PV) industry. First, Taiwan PV industry was analyzed by using SWOT. Second, the Analytic Network Process (ANP) structure was formed and modified by Expert Depth Interview. Then, the questionnaires were designed and sent to experts. Finally, the authors used the returned questionnaires to calculate the weighting and select the best strategy for Taiwan PV industry. The research results showed that the diversification strategy was the most appropriate. With this consequence, the manager of PV industry can take this strategy in order to maintain the sustainable competitive advantage in PV industry of the world.

The Application of ANP in the Trust Relationship in Supply Chain Partnership

2010 ◽  
Vol 439-440 ◽  
pp. 783-787
Author(s):  
Jin Yu Wei ◽  
Xiao Min Yan ◽  
Ran Bi
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Evaluation Model ◽  
Analytic Network Process ◽  
Sustainable Competitive Advantage ◽  
Trust Relationship ◽  
Network Process ◽  
Working Together

Companies set the highest standards of working together throughout the supply chain to create value and sustainable competitive advantage. Trust plays a most important role in the cooperation of supply chain. This study provided an effective method to evaluate the priorities on factors for partnership in supply chain. The factors which affect the trust partnership were setup and an evaluation model was built. Analytic Network Process was used to compute the priority of factors.

scholarly journals Creating better humans towards sustainable competitive advantage for small and medium-sized accounting firms in Malaysia

2018 ◽  
Vol 56 ◽  
pp. 04006
Author(s):  
Louis Lim Vui Han ◽  
Vijayesvaran Arumugam ◽  
Lawrence Arokiasamy
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
Superior Performance ◽  
Sustainable Competitive Advantage ◽  
Contributing Factors ◽  
Accounting Firms ◽  
Accounting Scandals ◽  
The World ◽  
Long Term Impact ◽  
Almost All

This study will be a bit different than others in the sense that it pierces directly into the human hearts. The world current economy is full of mysterious and uncertainty. There are plenty of different perspectives, but who can guarantee that they are right? The root of the problems of all issues generally come from the human heart or action. If we able to deal with human issues, it sorts out almost all the problems. The purpose of this study is to determine the contributing factors towards the sustainable competitive advantage (SCA) of small and medium-sized accounting firms (SMPs) in Malaysia. It aims to have a long-term impact on the prospects for the practitioners and the accounting professions. It becomes an attention to the world when numerous accounting scandals being published, and they jeopardized the accounting professions’ reputations. There are a few undisclosed cases especially it dealt with compliance, corporate tax, GST, money laundering and other issues, not only in Malaysia but in other countries as well. As such, the study focuses on creating better humans. Key findings from the literature highlighted the deficiencies in the core competencies of the firms. They are related to human capital and most of the researchers pinpointed the importance of knowledge, skills, capabilities in which it links to competencies in the corporate environment. The resource-based view of the firm is a common theory used by researchers as a mean of explaining competitive advantage and superior performance amongst the firms. And most of them stress the necessity to meet customer needs and expectation to create a sustainable competitive advantage.

scholarly journals The Strategy of Realizing Sharia Based School Cooperative in Tasikmalaya City, Indonesia

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-58
Author(s):  
Asep Suryanto
Keyword(s):  
School Leadership ◽  
Analytic Network Process ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
Hierarchical Complexity ◽  
Network Process ◽  
The Government ◽  
Policy Holder ◽  
Research Show

The objectives of this research: 1) what factors become a problem so that school cooperative still not become sharia based school cooperative? 2) How is the strategy to realize sharia cooperative in school? This research used a qualitative approach, i.e., Analytic Network Process (ANP). In applying the ANP method, the researcher does the following: 1) structuring the hierarchical complexity into the homogeneous clusters of the factors, 2) performing the measurements into the ratio scale at all the lowest levels of the hierarchy/ network, 3) synthesizing. Data used in this research is primary data collected from questionnaires and in depth interview with experts, the policy holder, students, and teacher coach. The results of the research show that 1) The factors that become the problem of difficulties in realizing sharia-based school cooperatives are less student participation, limited capital and infrastructure, knowledge of sharia co-operatives that are less good than students and teachers, and lack of coaching from the local cooperative office. 2) There are two strategies as a solution, i.e., an internal strategy which is the policy of school leadership to support the establishment of sharia-based school cooperatives; And external strategies that should be carried out by the government to support and develop sharia cooperatives including sharia-based school cooperatives.

Rethinking the Business Strategy in the Gaming Industry in India: The Case of Virtual Infocom

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 176-183
Author(s):  
Subrata Chattopadhyay ◽  
Subhajit Bhattacharya ◽  
Arijit Bhattacharya
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Business Strategy ◽  
Sustainable Competitive Advantage ◽  
Gaming Industry ◽  
Market Strategy ◽  
Start Up ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Player ◽  
Training Institute

The case is about rethinking the business strategy in the gaming industry in India vis-à-vis the world. It discusses the start-up Virtual Infocom (Virtual Information & Communications) and how over the years it has grown into a formidable local and global player. The case is about revamping market strategy and the attributes therein, the prospects and the potential, and envisages to explore as to how the company should, if so, alter their business strategy to be a top brand reckoning in the industry. Virtual Infocom, primarily a training institute, is considering whether to develop games for the market instead of being a secondary player. It unravels the dilemma as to whether it should continue with training or diversify to earn revenues globally to ensure a sustainable competitive advantage in the gaming industry.

scholarly journals Explorations of Charm Factors and Development of Fishing in Southern Taiwan Based on Miryoku Engineering and the Analytic Network Process

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 737
Author(s):  
Yang Zhang ◽  
Shuo-Fang Liu ◽  
Kun Wang
Keyword(s):  
Regional Differences ◽  
Evaluation Model ◽  
Leisure Activity ◽  
Analytic Network Process ◽  
Fishing Industry ◽  
Development Direction ◽  
The World ◽  
Network Process ◽  
Southern Taiwan ◽  
Process Method

Fishing is a popular leisure activity all over the world. However, due to the differences in local customs and cultures, fishing shows regional differences. This study aims to explore the charm of fishing in Southern Taiwan. In this study, the Miryoku engineering method was used to analyze and determine the charm characteristics of fishing in Southern Taiwan and draw the EGM evaluation structure chart. Thereafter, with the analytic network process method, the evaluation model was established in order to calculate the weight and ranking of each charm item. Then the weights of the 35 items in the summit, middle and bottom levels were obtained. The analysis results showed that fishing in Southern Taiwan was similar to that in other parts of the world, but the charm factors of fishing in Southern Taiwan had its relaxation and leisure characteristics. According to the analysis results of the charm factors of fishing, we discussed the future development direction of fishing industry based on the charm characteristics of fishing in Southern Taiwan.

River Landscape Health Diagnosis - Frame and Method

2013 ◽  
Vol 779-780 ◽  
pp. 1328-1331
Author(s):  
Che Yu Hsu ◽  
Sheng Jung Ou
Keyword(s):  
Health Assessment ◽  
Analytic Network Process ◽  
Indicator System ◽  
River Landscape ◽  
Assessment Indicator ◽  
Fuzzy Delphi ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
Network Process ◽  
Physical And Chemical ◽  
Health Diagnosis

The paper applied the concepts of Landscape health from the literature review with integration in depth-interview, using the Fuzzy Delphi, Fuzzy Analytic Network Process to develop the River Landscape Health Assessment Indicator System (RLHAIS). The assessment indicators system includes the indicator in 3 aspects, that is, physical and chemical environment indicators, landscape change indicators, ecological environment indicators, and 14 indexes, which were then applied to the RLHAIS to analyze the current landscape health for the Dong-shan River upstream in Yilan. The result showed that the score of Dong-shan River upstream: in 2009 was 0.70881, in 2010 was 0.66235, and in 2011 was 0.68694, implying that the healthy level nearly fell onto the "Degraded" state.

scholarly journals Market Volatility, Digital Transformation and Innovation changed the way of competition

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amal Wijenayaka
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Market Volatility ◽  
Sustainable Competitive Advantage ◽  
Traditional Methods ◽  
Future Success ◽  
The World ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Huge Challenge ◽  
The Way

The world is rapidly changing. As a result, organizations have to find new ways to compete with close competitors. It is challenging to use traditional methods and ways. Advertising and price war are not gaining sustainable competitive advantage further. Most past researches mentioned that Innovation is the key to future success. Furthermore, it is required to transform to digitalization. It provides new insight into the organization. Market volatility is a huge challenge to the organization. However, it can be managed with digitalization and Innovation.

The Cluster-Weighted DEMATEL with ANP Method for Supplier Selection in Food Industry

2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 567-575 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jung-Lu Shen ◽  
◽  
Yong-Mei Liu ◽  
Yi-Lin Tzeng ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Performance Improvement ◽  
Supplier Selection ◽  
Food Industry ◽  
Analytic Network Process ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Material Costs ◽  
Network Process ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Selection Of

In terms of keeping material costs low and increasing competitive advantage, supplier selection is one of the most important functions of a business. This paper uses an effective solution based on a combined Analytic Network Process (ANP) and Decision-Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) approach to find the criteria that are key to performance improvement. This paper surveys the multicriteria supplier selection approaches and reveals the most popular criteria and sub-criteria. Based on experts’ suggestions and the most popular criteria, the key factors in the selection of food industry suppliers are identified. Then, the causal relationships and relative importance weights of the criteria in the system are computed using the cluster-weighted DEMATEL with ANP method. This paper compares the results of experts and purchasing managers and discovers a cognitive gap. The managers agree that cost and delivery are very important; they need to keep material costs down and increase the company’s competitive advantage. The experts value customer satisfaction and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), so they feel that quality and service are the most important criteria.

scholarly journals How Should National Museums Create Competitive Advantage Following Changes in the Global Economic Environment?

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 3749 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pei-Hsuan Tsai ◽  
Chin-Tsai Lin
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Evaluation Model ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Multiple Criteria Decision Making ◽  
Analytic Network Process ◽  
Visitor Satisfaction ◽  
Network Process ◽  
National Museums ◽  
Decision Making Model

Management strategies play an important role in enhancing the competitive advantage and sustainable development of national museums. The purpose of this study is to focus on evaluating the management strategies of national museums to reduce the gaps in visitor satisfaction that are caused by the interdependence and feedback problems of the so-called BOCR dimensions (namely, benefits, opportunity, costs, and risks) and 24 criteria. This study creates a hybrid competitive advantage multiple-criteria decision-making model for national museums by integrating the decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory-based analytic network process and modified VIKOR (VlšeKriterijumska Optimizacija I Kompromisno Resenje) techniques to solve the problems. We consider five different types of national museums to illustrate how the proposed new evaluation model enhances the competitive advantage of national museums. Our results provide national museum curators with the knowledge and understanding to create promotional and marketing strategies that reduce the gaps in dimensions and criteria to satisfy visitors’ needs and to enhance their competitive advantage.

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