scholarly journals Firm Performance in the Context of Knowledge Based Intensive Sector: A Theoretical Review

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 234
Author(s):  
Eunice N. Wandiga ◽  
James M. Kilika ◽  
Rosemary James
Keyword(s):  
Firm Performance ◽  
Manufacturing Sector ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Services Sector ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Strategic Role ◽  
Knowledge Intensive

The operations function of an organization plays a strategic role in the success of organizations as it addresses key decisions that determine the utilization of economic resources in the value creation process to deliver goods and services. While the function has been sufficiently studied and documented in the manufacturing sector, little has been done reflecting the services sector. This paper presents a review of the extant theoretical and empirical literature on two constructs linked to operations strategy in the context of a knowledge intensive sector in the phenomenon leading to firm performance. The relevant theories are reviewed, constructs and their operational indicators identified and compared against extant empirical work and emergent knowledge gaps identified. The paper finally proposes a multidisciplinary based theoretical model suitable for advancing knowledge in this area together with the accompanying implications for future research.

Modularity matters: a critical review and synthesis of service modularity

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nofie Iman
Keyword(s):  
Service Sector ◽  
Manufacturing Sector ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Service Development ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Development Context ◽  
High Level ◽  
Service Perspective

Purpose – The literature on modularity is extensive, but most research has been concerned with the manufacturing sector and much less with the service sector. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the existing research, to provide a critique of the empirical literature on service modularity and to discuss future research opportunities. Design/methodology/approach – To perform this analysis of service modularity, a list of top-tier journals in the field of business management and organisation was compiled. From there, each and every article was identified, examined, coded and classified into high-level themes. These were then reviewed, analysed and interpreted. Findings – This paper argues that the application of modularity in services will likely be influenced by certain characteristics that distinguish services from products. Second, modularity, from the service perspective, has been closely connected to productisation of services, and the discussion of modularity related to services has been greatly influenced by the earlier discussion on product modularity. This paper concludes that modularity in the service development context is still seeking its theoretical “identity” and requires further theoretical and empirical work on service design modularity conceptualisation, methods and measures. Originality/value – This paper has reviewed several significant fields with which research on service modularity has been concerned. It captures and presents the core notion of service modularity in a critical way that might spur further research in the field.

scholarly journals TMT Diversity, Decision Quality and Service Sector Firm Performance: A Research Agenda

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beatrice A. Oduor ◽  
James M. Kilika
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Firm Performance ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Decision Quality ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Future Research

This paper reviews the extant theoretical and empirical literatures on TMT Diversity, Decision Quality and firm performance in a service sector setting. The constructs are traced from their theoretical roots and their nature, characteristics and operational descriptions provided. The emerging gaps in knowledge emanating from the theoretical and empirical literature are summarized and a theoretical model linking the constructs proposed. The paper makes several propositions and calls on future research to develop data collection tools for measuring the constructs in the study in empirical work.

Combining goods and service-dominant logics in purchasing strategies

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (8) ◽  
pp. 1087-1099
Author(s):  
Tale Skjølsvik
Keyword(s):  
Future Research ◽  
Management Consulting ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Industrial Marketing ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Consulting Services ◽  
Alternative Approaches ◽  
Knowledge Intensive ◽  
Relational Strategies ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose While goods- and service-dominant logics are separated in most research as alternative and often incompatible paradigms, this paper aims to show how these logics can be and are combined in purchasing strategies in organizations. The paper also illustrates that multiple logics exist in addition to purely goods- or service-based logics. Design/methodology/approach The paper is based on empirical data on the purchasing of management consulting services, which represent an extreme context for understanding the combination and intersection of goods- and service-dominant logics. In particular, four in-depth case studies and interviews with 51 sellers and 30 buyers of management consulting services are used to develop a typology of purchasing approaches that combines goods- and service-dominant logics. Findings The study shows that goods- and service-dominant logics are combined in two main purchasing phases: supplier set selection and assignment selection. In both these phases, parallel and knowledge-based, embedded and experience-based approaches were identified as ways of combining goods- and service-dominant logics in the purchasing context. Research limitations/implications The research presented in the following adds to our existing understanding of possible purchasing strategies under multiple logics in buying organizations. Future research should explore the conditions under which different strategies are and should be applied in organizations. Practical implications This paper gives practitioners alternative approaches to choose from in their purchasing and sales of knowledge-intensive services, in addition to transactional and relational strategies. Originality/value The research adds to existing research on business and industrial marketing by identifying particular purchasing strategies on a continuum between goods- and service-dominant logics.

The Circular Economy and The Green Jobs Creation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Sulich ◽  
Letycja Sołoducho-Pelc
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Linear Regression Method ◽  
Green Jobs ◽  
Environmental Goods ◽  
Services Sector ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Development Goals

Abstract The Circular Economy (CE) is a proposal for new, more sustainable and durable economy model. As consequence, of this pro-environmental economic model induces visible changes on the labor market which are Green Jobs (GJ). This paper is focused on the creation of Green Jobs in the CE. The GJ are most visible in the Environmental Goods and Services Sector (EGSS). This study aims to investigate EGSS among 28 European Union countries in years 2009–2019. The adopted method was literature research complemented by the statistical analysis of secondary data from Eurostat in the linear regression method. Then, some Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their measure were used as main indicators reflecting changes on the labor market. Results are presented as a model indicating which of the SDGs can support CE and enhance number of the ‘Green Jobs’. Presented results contribute to the science, because combine factors influencing GJ creation in EGSS, in CE perspective. This study underlines a lack of uniform methods for measuring and forecasting the effects of green jobs creation and indicate future research directions.

Government Policies During Lockdown

2021 ◽  
pp. 18-39
Author(s):  
Pallavi Sood ◽  
Meenakshi Malhotra ◽  
Shivinder Nijjer
Keyword(s):  
Economic Impact ◽  
Manufacturing Sector ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Business Continuity ◽  
Healthcare Education ◽  
Services Sector ◽  
Travel And Tourism ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Power Utilities

The COVID-19 pandemic has had severe consequences for economies across the globe, leading the governments to resort to extreme strategies such as implementing lockdowns to contain the reach of a virus, to implementing recovery plans in order to ensure business continuity and allow the smooth running of the business. This chapter highlights the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic globally and in India. It also outlines the various government measures taken at national and international levels for reopening of the economy, primarily focusing on policies in the services sector (including healthcare, education, travel, and tourism), in the manufacturing sector (MSME, infrastructure, power, utilities, and energy), and related to fiscal measures (overall, employment and monetary, and macro). The chapter concludes by summarizing the implications for India to combat adversities created by COVID-19, primarily by bringing improvements in the goods and services sector.

Organizational Design and Firm Performance

2013 ◽  
pp. 372-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Massimo G. Colombo ◽  
Marco Delmastro ◽  
Larissa Rabbiosi
Keyword(s):  
Firm Performance ◽  
Organizational Design ◽  
Theoretical Work ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Critical Survey ◽  
Specific Factors ◽  
Quantitative Indicators ◽  
Country Specific ◽  
Open Issues

This chapter provides a critical survey of the stream of studies that have examined the effect of organizational design decisions on firm performance. The focus is on selected organizational design dimensions that can be measured using quantitative indicators, notably i) organizationalconfiguration, ii) allocation of decision-making authority, and iii) adoption offormal organizational practices. The aim is to highlight ‘stylized facts’ supported by robust quantitative empirical findings, and to link them to insights provided by theoretical work. Moreover, we consider firm-, industry-, and country-specific factors that moderate the organizational design-firm performance relation. In reviewing this emergent and still quite fragmented empirical literature, we also take the opportunity to present open issues, and to indicate avenues for future research.

scholarly journals Leadership Strategy, Behavioural Focus and Firm Performance: A Review of Literature

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 143
Author(s):  
Janet K. Muthimi ◽  
James M. Kilika
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Firm Performance ◽  
Strategic Management ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Leadership Strategies ◽  
Firm Capabilities ◽  
Leadership Strategy ◽  
Strategic Management Process

The strategic management literature has laid emphasis on the role of leadership at several phases of the strategic management process. The literature has however not addressed the construct of leadership strategy as well as integrating it into the mainstream literature on strategic management. Researches already done to link leadership with performance have been biased in terms of the scope of focus on the dimension of performance and at the same time have registered methodological and conceptual challenges affecting the generalization of findings. In this paper, the authors integrate the extant literature on leadership with that on leadership strategy and identify issues that call for an expanded scope on the construct of leadership. The paper reviews extant conceptual, theoretical and empirical literature and raises diverse issues that present a case for a new theoretical model suitable to extend the current understanding on leadership and the phenomenon it brings about in organization into new frontiers in management. This paper proposes an integrated theoretical model for linking leadership strategies and firm performance while providing for the role of leadership paradigms, leadership behavioural focus and firm capabilities. The emerging theoretical propositions and implications for future research are discussed.

scholarly journals KNOWLEDGE INTENSIVE BUSINESS SERVICES AND THEIR ECONOMIC ROLE IN EUROPEAN UNION: A BRIEF ANALYSIS

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-85
Author(s):  
Daniel Badulescu ◽  
Alina Badulescu ◽  
Sebastian Sipos-Gug ◽  
Anamaria Diana Herte ◽  
Darie Gavrilut
Keyword(s):  
Economic Activity ◽  
Manufacturing Sector ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Business Services ◽  
Economic Role ◽  
Knowledge Intensive Business Services ◽  
Complex Relation ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
Knowledge Intensive

The decisive role of the knowledge-based economy, and the importance of the ventures fostering the use of innovation and incorporating knowledge, high technology and creativity are nowadays worldwide recognised, even more so considering that the EU is in a permanent search for innovation as a source of and for competitiveness. Knowledge Intensive Business Services (KIBS) are expected to play a key role in the knowledge-based economy as a source of innovation and knowledge in production, dynamic hubs in knowledge-related networks, or intermediaries of innovation between the manufacturing sector and suppliers, partners and final consumers. Within this context, in the present paper we aim to investigate the complex relation between the knowledge intensive business services (KIBS) and the imperative of fostering the economic activity, both of the entrepreneurial dynamics and their macroeconomic effects. The analysis, performed at EU level, leads to interesting results, revealing a complex but contradictory relation between KIBS and economic activity, which is measured by the following main indicators: entrepreneurial density and macroeconomic dynamics.

scholarly journals Corporate governance and firm performance in the emerging market: A review of the empirical literature

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-111
Author(s):  
Isaac Francis Antwi ◽  
Carla Carvalho ◽  
Cecília Carmo
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Firm Performance ◽  
Audit Committee ◽  
Emerging Market ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Research Trend ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Experience

After decades of many corporate scandals and financial meltdowns, the quest for effective corporate governance and firm performance has raised the concern of a lot of academicians, practitioners, and researchers regarding articles written on this issue. This study seeks to review corporate governance and firm performance articles written in Ghana under the author’s keywords in order to fulfill the objective. The goal is to identify the research trend and then to suggest the idea of future research directions. The study has conducted a review of corporate governance research by searching at Scopus and Web of Science research databases from 2006 to 2020 to prepare the list of articles. A comprehensive review of recent corporate governance and firm performance literature is essential because it provides a basis for comparing Ghana’s corporate governance research experience with other emerging economies in other continents. The findings reveal that two keywords on corporate governance analysed in this study – board composition and ownership – have many written articles, while compensation has the least number of articles. However, in the future, gender diversity and audit committee may be investigated since it has received global attention.

scholarly journals Innovation Strategies, First Mover Advantage and Performance in the Context of the Microfinance Sector: A Review of Literature

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 195
Author(s):  
Paul Ouma ◽  
James M. Kilika
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Work ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Strategic Option ◽  
First Mover Advantage ◽  
Innovation Strategies ◽  
And Performance ◽  
First Mover

The prevailing business environment is erratic and unreliable. The accomplishment of trade in such environment is determined by an organization’s capability to adjust and respond to environmental variation. Innovation strategies offer a strategic option that can be used to align organization’s assets and competencies with prospects in the external environment in order to heighten survival and long term success of an enterprise. Execution of such a strategic option is likely to result in strategic moves that will register impacts in the market which requires decision makers to consider the timing of their moves that operationalize the strategy in the market. The extant literature has pursued discussions on the construct of innovation strategy separately from that of first mover in spite of the implied indications that the two can be integrated into a strategic management phenomenon that will influence the firm’s performance. This study provides a review of existing theoretical and empirical literature on the perspectives connected to innovation strategies as a strategic option, first mover advantage in the phenomenon leading to performance in the context of microfinance setting. The applicable theories are reviewed, concepts and their operational indicators identified and matched against existing empirical work and nascent knowledge gaps identified. The study finally, suggests a theoretical framework appropriate for progressing knowledge in the field of study together with the associated inferences for future research.

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