The Relationship between Corporate Profile, Strategy, and Performance in International Markets

2010 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Flavia Luciane ◽  
Scherer Clandia ◽  
Maffini Gomes ◽  
Isak Kruglianskas
Keyword(s):  
International Markets ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Specific Group ◽  
Operating Income ◽  
Footwear Industry ◽  
Consistent Basis ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Performance Research ◽  
Core Issues

One of the core issues of strategy revolves around the relation between strategy and performance. Research studies analyze whether different performances are associated with different strategic attitudes. Given the importance of this issue, the objective of this paper is to describe and analyze the relation between the corporate profile, the adopted strategy and the performance in international markets of firms in the leather and footwear industry from the State of Rio Grande do Sul. The analysis of the corporate profile identified mature, medium-sized and big firms that engage in planning to guide their actions and that are concerned about monitoring changes in the environment with which they work. In regard to the relation between the corporate profile, the adopted strategy and international performance, an analysis of the correlation showed that the main variables that characterize the specific group are the strategic profile, planning, and monitoring of the business environment. It was found that firms with a high Gross Operating Income engage in planning activities on a less consistent basis, do not monitor their business environment and adopt a defensive strategic attitude.

Leadership and Employee Motivation: Moderating Role of Gender

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Beena Prakash
Keyword(s):  
Transformational Leadership ◽  
Employee Motivation ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Demand Pull ◽  
Logistics Services ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Core Issues ◽  
Moderating Role

With the present business environment which is creating a strong demand pull for quality and efficient logistics services, core issues are being gradually removed with time but HR issues are still neglected. Motivation can be the key process of boosting the morale of employees to encourage them to willingly give their best in accomplishing assigned tasks. During growth of any sector, dimensions of leadership can have great impact on employee motivation. This research paper analyzes impact of transformational leadership on employee motivation and moderating role of gender. The result shows significant positive correlation between transformational leadership and employee motivation and gender does moderate the relationship.

Towards a framework for measuring creative economy: evidence from Balkan countries

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valentina Ndou ◽  
Giovanni Schiuma ◽  
Giuseppina Passiante
Keyword(s):  
Business Environment ◽  
Creative Economy ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Balkan Countries ◽  
World Economic ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Diverse Data ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Performance Dimension

PurposeThe creative process through which the territorial resources, knowledge and culture are used, exploited and configured to match needs and to achieve congruence with the changing business environment has become a crucial process for competitiveness. This is even more relevant for economies of developing countries which are continuously struggling to reap the benefits of globalisation, as well as to grasp the new opportunities for competitiveness. As such, this paper aims to try to concentrate on the dynamic perspectives of the creative economy of countries by distinguishing between the potentialities and performance. The paper tackles the influence that creativity capacities might have on performance of countries.Design/methodology/approachThe methodology consists in identifying creative economy indicators from a diverse data set of the World Economic Forum and distinguish them between potential and performance indicators.FindingsData reveal as good progress and emphasis is being devoted to increasing the level of creativity; however, the Balkan countries still holdup in their capacity to boost innovation.Practical implicationsThe paper provide a new focus of research on creativity measurement that is significant for understanding what creative capacities territories possess and the ability to make proficient use for growth and innovation.Originality/valueThis paper proposes a new operational framework for measuring and interpreting the creative economy indicators by identifying not only indicators that gauge the potentialities of a country, but also indicators that are linked with the performance dimension, as well as the relationship amongst them.

What is New with Organization of E-Business

2011 ◽  
pp. 2257-2274
Author(s):  
Vojko Potocan ◽  
Zlatko Nedelko ◽  
Matjaž Mulej
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Vertical Integration ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Broad Definition ◽  
Business Impact ◽  
Business Transactions ◽  
Modern Business ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
A Company

In modern working relations, a company can improve its business dramatically, especially with formation and performance of suitable management. An important role in the whole management of a company belongs also to management of e-business. A broad definition defines e-business as a business process that uses Internet (and/or any other electronic medium) as a channel to complete business transactions. One of the main concerns about management of e-business is how much of each e-business should be owned by each e-business participants. This is called the extent of vertical integration. But in the modern business environment, vertical integrations alone are not enough. The alternative to vertical integration is some other form of relationship, not necessarily ownership. Inthe authors’ contribution, they will examine the relationship between the links of the e-business in terms of the flows between the operations involved. The authors use term link for all the different types of flow in exchange. This contribution discusses two issues: 1) How different relationships in e-business impact organization of e-business, and 2) How different organizational forms impact of e-business.

The Fit between External Involvement and Business Environment

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 46-64
Author(s):  
Di Cai ◽  
Taiwen Feng ◽  
Zhenglin Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Business Performance ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Operational Performance ◽  
Performance Information ◽  
Environment Analysis ◽  
Processing Theory ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Relationship

Previous studies are inconsistent in their findings about the relationship between external involvement and performance. The authors attribute this inconsistency to the misfit between external involvement and business environment. Drawing the concept of fit between information processing capabilities and needs from information processing theory, they develop the fitting patterns between external involvement and business environment and examine their impacts on performance. Information processing capabilities are measured by the degree of two types of external involvement in the NPD process and information processing needs are assessed based on three dimensions of business environment. Cluster analysis was used to develop the taxonomies of fit between external involvement and business environment. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to examine the impacts of fitting patterns between external involvement and business environment on performance. The results reveal six fitting patterns between external involvement and business environment. ANOVA results show that the fitting patterns between external involvement and business environment are related to both operational performance and business performance, supporting our fit theory.

scholarly journals I Am Great, but Only When I Also Want to Dominate: Maladaptive Narcissism Moderates the Relationship Between Adaptive Narcissism and Performance Under Pressure

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 323-335
Author(s):  
Shuge Zhang ◽  
Ross Roberts ◽  
Tim Woodman ◽  
Andrew Cooke
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Task ◽  
Motor Tasks ◽  
Grandiose Narcissism ◽  
Processing Efficiency ◽  
Psychophysiological Response ◽  
Task Processing ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Performance Research ◽  
Performance Under Pressure

Narcissism–performance research has focused on grandiose narcissism but has not examined the interaction between its so-called adaptive (reflecting overconfidence) and maladaptive (reflecting a domineering orientation) components. In this research, the authors tested interactions between adaptive and maladaptive narcissism using two motor tasks (basketball and golf in Experiments 1 and 2, respectively) and a cognitive task (letter transformation in Experiment 3). Across all experiments, adaptive narcissism predicted performance under pressure only when maladaptive narcissism was high. In the presence of maladaptive narcissism, adaptive narcissism also predicted decreased pre-putt time in Experiment 2 and an adaptive psychophysiological response in Experiment 3, reflecting better processing efficiency. Findings suggest that individuals high in both aspects of narcissism perform better under pressure thanks to superior task processing. In performance contexts, the terms “adaptive” and “maladaptive”—adopted from social psychology—are oversimplistic and inaccurate. The authors believe that “self-inflated narcissism” and “dominant narcissism” are better monikers for these constructs.

The Fit Between External Involvement and Business Environment

2018 ◽  
pp. 613-632
Author(s):  
Di Cai ◽  
Taiwen Feng ◽  
Zhenglin Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Information Processing ◽  
Business Performance ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Performance Information ◽  
Environment Analysis ◽  
Processing Theory ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Relationship

Previous studies are inconsistent in their findings about the relationship between external involvement and performance. The authors attribute this inconsistency to the misfit between external involvement and business environment. Drawing the concept of fit between information processing capabilities and needs from information processing theory, they develop the fitting patterns between external involvement and business environment and examine their impacts on performance. Information processing capabilities are measured by the degree of two types of external involvement in the NPD process and information processing needs are assessed based on three dimensions of business environment. Cluster analysis was used to develop the taxonomies of fit between external involvement and business environment. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to examine the impacts of fitting patterns between external involvement and business environment on performance. The results reveal six fitting patterns between external involvement and business environment. ANOVA results show that the fitting patterns between external involvement and business environment are related to both operational performance and business performance, supporting our fit theory.

scholarly journals Moderating Effect Of Organizational Factors Between Competitive Intelligence Practices And Performance Of Firms Listed On The Nairobi Securities Exchange, Kenya

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (22) ◽  
pp. 213
Author(s):  
Paul Waithaka
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Factors ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Moderating Effect ◽  
Competitive Intelligence ◽  
Financial Measures ◽  
And Performance ◽  
General Business ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Competitive Forces ◽  
Number Of Firms

Performance is critical for every listed firm, as it enhances shareholder’s value and capability to generate earnings from invested capital. Some of the firms listed on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) have been performing poorly as indicated by the rising number of firms issuing profit warnings. The competitive business environment is continuously working to drive down the rate of return on invested capital. To counter these competitive forces, firms have resorted to gathering information at their disposal and converting it into competitive intelligence through analysis and human judgment. Competitive intelligence can be viewed both as a process and a product. As a process, it is the set of legal and ethical methods for collecting, developing, analyzing and disseminating actionable information pertaining to competitors, suppliers, customers, the organization itself and business environment that can affect a company’s plans, decisions and operations. Competitive intelligence as a product is information about the present and future behavior of competitors, suppliers, customers, technologies, government, market and the general business environment. This study sought to determine the moderating effect of organizational factors between competitive intelligence practices and performance of firms listed on the NSE. Firm performance was evaluated using both financial and non-financial measures. The findings indicate that organizational factors specifically organizational culture, organizational structure and managerial attitudes toward competitive intelligence were found to moderate in the relationship between the competitive intelligence practices and performance of firms listed on the NSE, Kenya.

scholarly journals Employees’ Tenure and Length of Service and Performance: A Case Study on the Moderating Role of Psychological Empowerment among Supervisors

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Empowerment ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Employee Productivity ◽  
Length Of Service ◽  
Academic Background ◽  
High Performing ◽  
High Productivity ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Supervisory Staff ◽  
The Relationship

Employee productivity is extremely crucial in today’s business environment. In order to achieve high productivity, companies need to have a team of high performing employees. This empirical study explores the influence of employees’ tenure in an organisation together with their academic background in the relationship towards improving and enhancing their performance. The study also looks into whether psychological empowerment has any influence on the relationship between their tenure and academic background and performance. Respondents for this research were from the supervisory staff from Malaysia’s glazed ceramic tile industry. The results of the study have shown that employees’ academic background and their tenure at their organisations have an influence on their performance but in the presence of psychological empowerment, both demographic variables do not improve performance.

scholarly journals The Moderating Effect of Environmental Turbulence on the Strategic Agility-Performance Relationship: Empirical Evidence from Lagos State, Nigeria

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
M. A. Arokodare
Keyword(s):  
Firm Performance ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Moderating Effect ◽  
Environmental Turbulence ◽  
Lagos State ◽  
Strategic Agility ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Relationship

Scholars in strategic management argued that strategic agility measures do enhance firm performance and mitigate environmental turbulence risks. This study therefore examined the moderating effect of environmental turbulence on the relationship between strategic agility and performance of oil and gas marketing companies in Lagos State, Nigeria. Population of the study was 515 managers of major oil and gas marketing companies in Lagos State. Cross-sectional survey research design was adopted with total enumeration. The research instrument was found reliable and valid with Cronbach’s alpha and KMO greater than 0.7 and 0.5 respectively. The data was analyzed using descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation, and multiple and hierarchical regression methods of analyses. Findings revealed that among oil and gas marketing companies in Lagos State, Nigeria, there was positive and significant relationship between strategic agility and performance; strategic agility had positive and significant effect on performance while environmental turbulence significantly moderated the relationship between strategic agility and performance. The study concluded that strategic agility affected and related with firm performance and also environmental turbulence moderated the relationship between strategic agility and performance of oil and gas marketing companies in Lagos State, Nigeria. Therefore, it is recommended that oil and gas marketing companies in Nigeria should fully and dynamically embrace strategic agility practices and continuously develop their capabilities for proper and timely sensing of and responding to changes in their business environment in order to improve their performance over their competitors. Limitations of the study and areas for future research were highlighted.

scholarly journals Performance of Incubator Centres in Kenya

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-59
Author(s):  
Jane Gathiga Muriithi ◽  
Kenneth Wanjau ◽  
Humphrey Omondi
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Causal Effect ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Measurement Model ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Business World ◽  
Entrepreneurial Spirit ◽  
Entrepreneurial Management ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Relationship

Globally, countries are strategically positioning themselves for market leadership due to dynamic business environment. Entrepreneurial spirit is seen as the strategy that will deliver this agenda.  This spirit, is believed to be behind the innovative business that revolutionizes the business world. In a dynamic and complex environment, the success of any business is pegged on the entrepreneurial operations of a firm.  Entrepreneurial-oriented firms have been proven to be ahead of competition because they are always introduced new products and services and in turn improve their financial results. Scholars believe that learning and development can occur amongst people who actively engage in a common enterprise. This makes learning empowering and productive and thus sustains entrepreneurial orientation. This in turn produces communities of entrepreneurial practice. The role of the entrepreneurial manager is to nurture communities of growth-oriented firms where entrepreneurial learning takes place. The purpose of this study is to assess the relationship between entrepreneurial management and performance of incubator centres in Kenya. The study used a correlation design because it focused on a causal-effect relationship. The study population was 41 incubator managers in Kenya. After missing data analysis two respondents were expunged leaving 39 respondents. Secondary data was obtained from published sources such as company reports, manuals and research done by other scholars. Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) approach was used to analyze the measurement model and test the hypothesized relationship in this study.  Simple linear regression model was used to measure the strength of the relationship between entrepreneurial management and performance incubator centre in Kenya. The joint effect model results indicated that entrepreneurial management had a significant relationship with performance of incubator centre.

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