complicacy, variety and ever-increasing changes, assumed as outstandingly evident organizational environment features, impose a situation where inconsiderate attitude or carelessness could end in loss of competitiveness or even survival among rivals. today, organizations have come to the point that nothing, but knowledge and innovation could make them desirably successful in a competitive world...

Regional Competitiveness is often emphasized on the comparative advantage of such region in a particular country. A competitive region is one that attracts and maintains achieved companies, while improving inhabitats’ standard of living. Skilled workforces, regional resources and investments are often drawn to a competitive region. Storper (1997) defined regional competitiveness as “...the abil...

Techniques to generate probabilistic decision rules are presented. These techniques are used to forecast or measure the competitiveness of companies. Rules estimating the competitiveness of companies are discovered. The generated rules are then applied to forecast the competitiveness of previously unseen companies. Experimental results show that probabilistic decision rule technique outperforms...

With the increasingly fierce market competition, China has more sound market economy system. Competition in the market price on the important position of the company is also increasing. It increases its profit source which can provide third-party logistics services business. Third-party logistics enterprises should put the customer requirements on an important position and meet the requirements...

Currently, only a small fraction of software companies around the world achieve a high quality level for their development process. A vast majority of software producers, which have not yet implemented a methodology for software quality assurance, are paying high costs of production and systems maintenance, and are therefore being displaced from the global market, not being on the same competit...

Nowadays, companies are very dynamic, thus increasing their competitiveness is mandatory. This competitiveness is associated with dynamics and flexibility, a fast product changeover is needed. Interoperability has an important role to implement these features that companies need, in order to reduce time, effort and money. This paper describes how the production process can be improved with sema...

Third Party Logistics (3PL) in Asia emerged as an important trend in logistical management and Thailand continues to develop in this service rapidly. While a great deal has been written about the dissemination of information technology (IT), few empirical investigations address the use of IT in relation to 3PLs in Thailand. In this article, the authors use an empirical study to investigate the ...