The selection and implantation of sufficient and appropriate continuous improvement strategy are the key success factors for improving firm performance and enhancement of competitive advantage on manufacturing industries. As a result special role are given to Continuous improvement programs such as Supply Chain Management (SCM), Six-Sigma, Total Quality Management (TQM), Kaizen, Just-in-Time (J...

E-government services—electronic services made available by governments to stakeholders, citizens, businesses or governmental authorities—and their type of creation, duration and volatility, are showing dynamic changes in the public sector. E-government services cover all governmental measures at the levels of unions, states and local governments for qualitative improvement in citizen’s various...

Developing countries are increasingly relying on Information and Communication Technology (ICTs) for their socio-economic development. Many countries have achieved faster gross domestic product (GDP) growth through information technology (IT) outsourcing, which is now largely recognized as a strategic management practice that can provide a competitive advantage in business. The East African Com...

Using data from 170 manufacturing companies, we identified five facilitators for knowledge management in an ERP environment. Additionally, we examined the relationship between knowledge management and manufacturing companies’ competitive advantages in the E-business environment. The result of the study suggests that adopting organizational preparation for KM, employee education and learning, in...

today continuation of economic activities requires access to timely and adequate financial resources to provide working capital for enterprises, and any decision in this area  has a considerable effect on the operational efficiency of the business unit and will lead to changes in the value of the company and ultimately shareholders' wealth.       in current conditions, because of  the volu...

To thrive in the current embedded and electronic competitive environment, organizations must achieve advantageous positions within their networks of competition. We strengthen the understanding of the genesis of network structures by examining the IT-enabled capabilities and internal resource endowment that determine an advantageous position in competition networks, which we term as competitive...

today, the global business environment compels enterprises to consider rest of the world in their competitive strategy analysis where firms ignore external factors such as economic trends, competitive positions or technology advancement in other countries. while going truly global with supply chain management, a company develops product in the united states, produce in india and trade in europe...

A traditional arms-length approach to business partnership is not an acceptable or effective approach in the present forceful and aggressive global business environment (Bowersox et al., 2000). Innovative strategies are required to create a competitive advantage that allows for cost reductions, revenue enhancements, and flexibility when dealing with financial uncertainties. Supply chain managem...

Industrial companies evolve in a highly competitive economic environment in which economic constraints require permanent adjustment. Whatever the size of the company, it has to manage and optimize in continuous way business processes in order to innovate with respect to the environment. These requirements make information systems at the heart of this issue as far as these systems manage and adj...