One of the goals of the government is to increase the competitiveness of domestic firms to export goods and services. Moreover, the role of exports in many economic sectors has been emphasized. There are two essential requirements for developing non-oil exports: first, the presence of firms in export markets and increasing their competitiveness; second, the survival of them in international mar...

BLAŽEK, L., PUDIL, P., ŠPALEK, J.: The factors aff ecting competitiveness of companies: contribution and limits of the statistical pattern recognition methods. Acta univ. agric. et silvic. Mendel. Brun., 2011, LIX, No. 7, pp. 69–80 The paper elaborates the methodical side of empirical research of factors infl uencing the economic success of companies. The analysis is based on the selective samp...

Big companies of the Information Technology (IT) industry have been increasingly distributing on a world scale their units of software development to countries in Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America through offshore development centers as a strategy to increase competitiveness and reduce costs. In this context, emerging countries, like Brazil and its several measures focused on the developme...

To meet the market demands and ensure competitiveness, the search for quality has become a strategic goal for many companies, so the search for quality models becomes necessity. In this context, this paper proposes a tool support for implementation of Requirements Development process included in MPS.BR and CMMI programs, exclusively using free software tools, analyzing adherence to the maturity...

The world's shipbuilding industry as well as shipping industry is going through some unprecedented recession period in recent years. Shipbuilding companies in China have suffered a lot and many are now focusing on improving their competitiveness to survive the recession. The evaluation of a company’s competitiveness is difficult considering the high level of uncertainty involved. This paper is ...

Green purchasing is a key strategy for enterprises to reduce waste and improve efficiency and enhance competitiveness. Based on the survey of 144 companies, five Principal components of green purchasing practices were extracted through factor analysis using SPSS statistic software. And then, regression analysis were conducted to verify the hypothesis, it drawed a conclusion on leaders’ support ...

Lean Manufacturing has helped several industries to achieve operational and manufacturing excellence by increasing productivity and enhancing quality, while reducing waste and costs. However, the wood industry has been historically slow in adopting this philosophy and its many tools. In times when overseas competition has taken big portions of the traditional market share for U.S based wood ind...

Competitiveness and survivability of many companies today does not only depend on their products and development processes. It also strongly depends on how effective the organizations are in managing emergency software problems. Despite this, there is only one process model dealing with software emergencies. It is CM 3 : Emergency Problem Management. In this paper, we evaluate CM 3 : Emergency ...