Firms no longer compete as autonomous entities and prefer to join in a supply chain alliance to take advantage of highly competitive business situation. Supply chain coordination has a great impact on strategic partnering and success of a firm in competitive business environment. In this paper, we propose a system dynamics simulation model for strategic partner selection in supply chain. Our mo...

the purpose of this study is to evaluate effect of porter`s competitive strategies tomeet customer market orientation needs in petrochemical firms. given the numbers ofproducts of this company, this study examine polyethylene products, so the impact of 3porter`s strategies, differentiation strategy, focus strategy, cost leadership strategy,evaluate in response to market orientation needs of thi...

customer satisfaction is a critical element for excellence and achievement of anyorganization in a competitive environment. mosques as a nonprofit-religious institutionshould pay attention strongly to satisfying their customers namely prayers, so they cansurvive in a competitive environment of culture. present study aims to design a modelof determinants of people satisfaction to mosque and thei...

Background and objective: The location of facilities is of great importance in healthcare and is of interest to researchers due to its importance. In this regard, a large proportion of classic location-allocation models concentrate on solving problems in an exclusive environment (non-competitive), but this assumption is rarely true in reality. Methods: At...

1 ( Economics Faculty, Widyagama University, Malang, Indonesia ) 2,3,4 ( Economics and Business Faculty, Brawijaya University, Malang, Indonesia ) ____________________________________________________________________ Abstract: This study aimed to test empirically: 1). Effect of external business environment adaptability to company performance. 2). Effect of external business environment adaptabi...

In today world, organizations’ performance and making the sustainable competitive strength have become incrementally important for them according to the quick global evolutions. The dairy industry is one of the most important industries which has made very competitive environment. The case study of this research is Kaleh Dairy Company as one of the active companies in dairy industries. One of t...

Many …rms today quantify the value of individual customers and serve them di¤erentially; providing better priviliges, discounts or other inducements to high value customers. We refer to this practice as Customer Value-based Management (CVM). Previous research in this area and popular press recommend numerous prescriptions that are research-based and intuitively sound. However, …rms that have ad...

The location of facilities anywhere in an area in which several competing facilities already exist and serving the demand points has been brought to light in this work. Because of the great importance of health care systems in the health of the people, these systems have been studied in the present paper. Creation and maintenance of competitive advantage in health care systems requires optimizi...