[PDF] Top 20 An Exploratory Study on Business Strategy, Competency and Firm Performance

... financial performance across firms ((Bamey, 1991, Peteraf, ...firm's strategy to competitive positioning and environmental ...sustained performance advantages by accumulating resources that produce ... See full document

... a strategy of continuous product/market development and innovation (prospectors) than in firms which are protecting a comparatively narrow and stable product/market (defenders) (Abernethy and Guthrie, 1994; Hoque, ... See full document

... University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Emails:[email protected][email protected] Abstract This exploratory study investigates whether usage of strategic management accounting SMA te[r] ... See full document

... the study, identify key informants, and ensure that the firms listed in the directory were still in ...green business initiatives and yield ...the study were contacted by ... See full document

... Today's business environment is more complex than earlier and it is expected that firms should regard the relationship with stakeholders at the strategic level to create value for shareholders and ...enhances ... See full document

... modern business strategy have come from a broad range of disciplines, and the study of manufacturing is an indispensable ...Sun’s study has produced the result that only when the manufacturing ... See full document

... In the second part, the design role of the MCS (belief and boundary) were measured, based on the study by Widener (2007). The respondents were asked to indicate the extent to which their firms currently use ... See full document

... This study addresses the issue of interrelationship between market orientation, firm innovativeness and business performance of companies in Nigeria with specific focus on the following ... See full document

... with firm value (Cho & Chung, 2001; Chung, Jeon, & Kim, 2003; Sougiannis, ...with firm value ...a firm exploit R&D investment as a tool for the changing current competitive position, one ... See full document

... This study used a model suggested by Gujarati and Porter (2008) to find the links between each strategy; related and unrelated by incorporating dummy ...and performance: ROA it = α 0i + β 1 size it + ... See full document

... of firm owners (Amess and Drake, ...on firm performance can provide some degree of goal congruence between firms‘ interests and directors‘ personal interest ...financial performance or ...on ... See full document

... SME strategy making, there is a substantial stream of research on the formality or sophistication of planning and also on the informality of planning (Gibson and Cassar, 2005; Brinckmann et ...debate. ... See full document

... There are several reasons why this study is potentially important. Previous surveys have concentrated on identifying the largest firms, either at a point in time or via a series of cross sectional comparatives. 1 ... See full document

... organization’s strategy into performance objectives, measures, targets and ...organization’s strategy through a series of linked performance measures based on four perspectives including ... See full document

... organizational performance in an industry (Duray, ...that business strategy can motivate the internal functional departments to make decisions and coordinate resource investments in order to improve ... See full document

... As a final point, the rapidly changing environment of business and industries has significant effect on industries‟ activities and performance. In addition, in a highly competitive environment where the ... See full document

... this study, I measured advantage-enhancing strategy as a count of advantage- enhancing actions such as price cuts, marketing, product improvements and market expansions, initiated by firms in a given ...a ... See full document

... An exploratory factor analysis was deployed to analyse whether unobserved factors are underlying the “blocks” (technical aspect, business strategy, cost structure, selected business ...to ... See full document

... do business with very carefully by paying attention to the CSR communication of these ...the business-to-business context is a multi-step process, as opposed to in the business-to-consumer ... See full document

... While publishing plays a critical role in disseminating news, information, entertainment and educational materials, Elmas & Erdogmus (2011) noted that the industry has one of the highest rates of returned products. ... See full document