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Time‐based management creates a competitive advantage

Planning Review, 1990
When the design and engineering functions in this Midwestern electronics firm learned to cooperate instead of operating independently, the company won the jackpot: a 50 percent speedup in development time, lower development costs, and dramatic improvements in product quality.
Daniel Valentino, Bill Christ
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A contingency view of time‐based competition for manufacturers

International Journal of Operations & Production Management, 1996
The growing time‐based competition (TBC) literature coincides with an increased emphasis on time in manufacturing organizations. In a 1993 survey, 93 per cent of US and European managers identified reliable delivery times as having above average importance, while overall delivery speed was cited by 88 per cent and 89 per cent, respectively. At the same
Cecil Bozarth, Steve Chapman
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The synergisitic impact of time-based technologies on manufacturing competitive priorities

International Journal of Technology Management, 2015
The continually deforming business landscape is forcing manufacturing firms to rethink their manufacturing strategies in terms of the appropriate combination of time–based technologies to use. Strategic agility and smart manufacturing will continue to prevail in this and the upcoming decade.
Mohamed A. Youssef, Eyad M. Youssef
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THE EVOLUTION OF COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE: HAS VIRTUAL MARKETING REPLACED TIME‐BASED COMPETITION?

Competitiveness Review: An International Business Journal, 2000
Businesses succeed or fail based on competitive advantage. Over the course of business history a number of innovative business practices have earned the distinction of being “milestones” in competitive advantage. Examples of such groundbreaking competitive developments include portfolio strategies in product management and restructuring companies ...
Julie T. Johnson, James W. Busbin
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Study on enterprise operation model of time-based competition

Proceedings of ICSSSM '05. 2005 International Conference on Services Systems and Services Management, 2005., 2005
The uncertainty increasing of the enterprise business circumstance and the changed mode and concept of people's consumption result in the competition among the enterprises from the focus on the cost, quality and service to the variety and time of the products gradually.
null Tao Wu, null Rongqiu Chen, null Jing Xue   +2 more
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Time‐based competition and beyond: Competing on capabilities

Planning Review, 1992
Strategies of the past and the present have been based on structural advantages — e.g., products and markets, geography and cost, technologies. These patterns explain much of the nature of competition between business entities. Structural advantages can be identified and measured; they are differentiated among competitors, and their differences explain
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Time Based Competition and Innovation

2002
By choosing their organizations, firms trade-off productive efficiency and time spent in implementing innovation. We embed such a productivity/reactivity trade-off in a growth model with creative destruction. We first highlight the specific impact of time in firm competition: in addition to weighing costs and benefits of late adoption, firms use time ...
Thesmar, David, Thoenig, Mathias
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Exploring relational aspects of time‐based competition

International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management, 2008
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to begin to explore the phenomenon of time pressure in supply chain relationships.Design/methodology/approachUsing grounded theory methodology, qualitative data were accumulated from experienced supply chain managers.
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The Design of Distribution System in the Environment of Time-based Competition

2006 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics, 2006
The design of distribution system is required to minimize the expectation of total responding time and expectation value of delivery cost under the time-based-competitive stochastic demands environment. Therefore, the multi-objective stochastic programming model for time-based-competitive distribution system with multi-source and multi-product was ...
Yanhui Li, Dan Shen, Shihua Ma
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Time‐based competition: literature review and implications for modelling

International Journal of Operations & Production Management, 1996
Competition, technological advancement and the sophistication of consumers’ needs have led to the evolution of competitive paradigms, in which, time‐based competition apparently has emerged as the competitive paradigm of the 1990s. While much has been written about the paradigm since it was first highlighted in the late 1980s, no comprehensive ...
Sin‐Hoon Hum, Hoon‐Hong Sim
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