in today's competitive world, maintaining competitive power of industries is the requirement of remaining in the competition. in the case of small industries, it also needs to think about strategies of making the industries more competitive in order to survive and have successful activity in competition. in many countries, one of the methods that have gained successful experience in increa...

with regard to competitive advantage complexity and specific characteristics of high tech industries, in this research by a cognitive mapping methodology we develop a qualitative model for interpreting the competitive advantage in company level for high tech industries. in first, after describing the research problem, we present a comparative review of four recent theories of firm and competiti...

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...

Importing Equality? The Impact of Globalization on Gender Discrimination While researchers have long held that discrimination cannot endure in an increasingly competitive environment, there has been little work testing this dynamic process. This paper tests the hypothesis (based on Becker 1957) that increased competition resulting from globalization in the 1980s forced employers to reduce costl...

Firm competitive strategies are the more important concept that firms should concern about precisely. This study aims to analyze different types of firm apparel industry follows enhance organizations’ profit and survive within global market by fulfilling compliance requirements international forces. However, this does not focus on reviewing human resource management strategies, which is opposit...