Abstract Tropical ants experience intense intra- and interspecific competition for food sources, which influences their activity pattern foraging strategies. Even though different ant species can coexist through spatial temporal niche partitioning, direct cannot be avoided. Recruitment communication is assumed to help colonies monopolize exploit sources successfully, but this has rarely been te...

knowledge creation and innovation is recognized to be of paramount importance to the competitive advantage of organizations in modem economics. this research empirically investigates the creation of new knowledge. to analyze data, we used regression. the results indicate that intention, requisite variety, individual autonomy, project autonomy and redundancy are highly associated with successful...

for any organization sound marketing strategy and quality assurance play vital role in the growth of the organization. the price, quality and service, service centers, friendly attitude, discounts on sales, esthetics, store location and appearance, ease of operations, guarantees and warranties, adopting new ideas, and flexible payments terms were considered to study the perceptions of the respo...

Taking the highly competitive markets into consideration, organizations need to be involved in activities that yield not only high performance, but also a competitive advantage. The present study was conducted to investigate the effect of collaborative structure and competitive intensity in the relationship between process management and organizational performance in Shiraz Municipality. The pr...

Mohammed, North, and Ashton find that decentralization in Fiji shifted health-sector workloads from tertiary hospitals to peripheral health centres, but with little transfer of administrative authority from the centre. Decisionmaking in five functional areas analysed remains highly centralized. They surmise that the benefits of decentralization in terms of services and outcomes will be limited....

The current strategies of increasing work-life quality are being given special attention by both public and private organizations. These quality strategies have arisen because of the highly competitive environment. Also, a safe and healthy work environment that provides the opportunities for employees to enhance their loyalty, affiliation and love towards their work and organization is required...

In today’s competitive, dynamic, and changing business environment, being able to collaborate globally within and beyond the enterprise borders is critical. Inter-Organizational Collaborations (IOCs) have been proposed as a response to the characteristics of highly competitive global business environments. So far, a number of reference models, frameworks, and ad hoc architectures related to som...

This paper presents a competitive supply chain network design problem in which one, two, or three supply chains are planning to enter the price-dependent markets simultaneously in uncertain environments and decide to set the prices and shape their networks. The chains produce competitive products either identical or highly substitutable. Fuzzy multi-level mixed integer programming is used to mo...

mohammed, north, and ashton find that decentralization in fiji shifted health-sector workloads from tertiary hospitals to peripheral health centres, but with little transfer of administrative authority from the centre. decisionmaking in five functional areas analysed remains highly centralized. they surmise that the benefits of decentralization in terms of services and outcomes will be limited....