a r t i c l e i n f o Using resource-based view (RBV) of the firm as a theoretical backdrop; we aim to find out the relative impact of a firm's functional capabilities (namely, marketing and operations) and diversification strategies (product/ service and international diversification) on financial performance. We hypothesize that this linkage depends on the firm's relative efficiency to integr...

rapid economic and steady high rates of economic growth has drastically increased the need for imported oil in asia-pacific region; china -an oil exporting country in the region till 1993- is now the third oil importer of the world with the neighboring japan being in the second place. south korea as the world’s ninth oil importer consumes almost as much as the entire oil production of oil expor...

in the recent years, the relationship between diversification and performance became an important empirical subject in financial management. diversification strategies can affect the competitive balance of an industry. in this survey we are to illustrate the relationship between the two variables of diversification and financial ratios as performance criteria based on accounting through statist...

Enterprises to achieve global optimization and better diversification and personalized product production scheduling, from the unity of the tasks and resources manufacturing, based on the perspective of global optimization in production scheduling method. With global production scheduling of matching and process model resources as the foundation for the realization of enterprise process product...

This paper examines the effect of geographic and industrial diversification on firm value for a sample of 1,914 corporations from 18 countries. Our results indicate that both geographic and product diversification destroy value at high levels of diversification, suggesting that agency and influence costs arising from the increased complexity outweigh the benefits of diversification at high degr...

By developing meta-frontier efficiency and structural equation models, the paper examines whether farm economic viability is positively associated with technical in a highly food insecure context, such as that of rural Sierra Leone. The findings show can be sufficient but not necessary condition determining smallholder farming. It possible to breach reproductive thresholds at cost reduced effic...

Xenematide, a cyclic depsipeptide antibiotic produced by Xenorhabdus nematophila, had a candidate nonribosomal peptide synthetase (NRPS) with atypical features. Differential metabolite analysis between a mutant and wildtype validated that this stand-alone NRPS was required for xenematide production, and further analysis led to a series of new xenematide derivatives encoded by the same NRPS. Our...