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Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2022 The adoption of e-commerce is essential in today’s dynamic business environment to optimize the overall firm performance of manufacturing SMEs. This research investigates the influence of environmental and technological factors to promote e-commerce ...
Ahsan Akbar +4 more
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Analysis on the Efficiency of Risk Management in the Chinese Listed Companies
Mathematics, 2020 Since a firm’s profitability is associated with a degree of risk taking, risk indicators have been extensively treated as exogenous variables and affected firm performance.
Chien-Ming Huang +2 more
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Content Analysis of Business Cooperatives Theories Emphasizing Network Functions [PDF]
مدیریت بازرگانی, 2019 Objective As an organizational strategy, networking has a variety of functions for network activists. Such functions begin with the flow of resources and information and finally result in economic benefit for the network members.
Rasool Lavaei Adaryani +3 more
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The (De)Politicisation of Work – An Inquiry into the Political Function of Work
Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 2019 The paper revisits the debate on the political function of work, defined as the contribution of work to the production and transformation of social relations, in both conceptual and empirical terms.
Helena Lopes
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Complex adaptive systems theory and firm product innovativeness
Journal of Engineering and Technology Management, 2014 The enabling conditions of complex adaptive systems (CAS), such as context and emergence, for firm product innovativeness have rarely been addressed in the new product development (NPD) literature. In this study, we empirically investigated how emergence, which is a process involving coordinated actions and interdependency, influences firm product ...
Akgun, Ali E. +2 more
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South African Journal of Business Management, 2016 This paper analyzes the effect of offshore outsourcing on the export performance of firms, based on the theories of international business, the resource-based view of the firm and the transaction cost theory. Outsourcing can reduce production costs and
S. Garcilazo Lagunes +2 more
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REFLECTIONS ON PRODUCTION INTERNALIZATION AND ITS INTERNATIONAL TRADE IMPLICATIONS [PDF]
Analele Universităţii Constantin Brâncuşi din Târgu Jiu : Seria Economie, 2014 Vertically-integrated multinational companies place the different stages of production and marketing chain in different countries, looking for advantages such as low production costs, lower taxes, abundant resources and so on, while benefiting from ...
CLIPA RALUCA IRINA
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BuildingsThe leadership, personality, and behavioral characteristics of senior managers relate to organizational performance in construction firms, yet these dimensions have rarely been examined together in relation to firm size.
Murat Cevikbas
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O Conceito de Empresa na Teoria Econômica: Uma Revisão das Principais Contribuições
Revista de Economia Mackenzie, 2005 The present work aims to identify the evolution of the concept of firm in the economic theory. Our analysis starts from the original concept of the firm as an economic unit, whose objective is to rationally allocate the factors of production in order ...
José Caio Racy +2 more
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Using a developed PM in order to optimize the production productivity in a cement industry
Journal of Applied Sciences and Environmental Management, 2011 Cement factories are highly energy and cost intensive industries. Producing the cement requires a lot of energy to transform the raw material into final product. One major area to improve the production productivity is preventive maintenance (PM).
A Naghiloo +4 more
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