There is a need for an appropriate culture to support the scope of Total Quality Management (TQM). Customer focus, systems approach, teamwork, involved management and continuous improvement are the aspects of TQM that facilitate improved organisational success, growth, and competitiveness. Many companies are now complementing continuous improvement with innovation, which is seen as the successf...

This paper investigates the mergers and acquisitions by the emerging country multinational companies. Emerging country multinational companies do not have access to big amounts of capital as many developed country multinational companies. These companies can decide to engage in mergers and acquisitions with those of the other emerging country multinational companies in order to increase their p...

The reduction in protectionist barriers in India has made the Indian business environment more competitive. For surviving and growing in the new scenario, Indian companies need to improve their competitiveness and choose effective strategies. This paper attempts to identify critical success factors and key strategies to be pursued by companies. Based on questionnaire data collected from 125 CEO...

By the in-depth development of economic globalization in recent years, market competition has become the focus of the fight against various companies. The survival and development of companies is not only depending on its own resources, but also relying on more value-oriented consumers. For companies around the world, their tasks are not only to take a variety of measures to deal with market ri...

The rapid progress made in the application of optimization techniques to industrial processes has been driven primarily by the increase in global competitiveness and environmental regulations that force companies to make optimum use of their resources. The US Air Force has of late been coming under severe pressure to reduce expenditure in the form of reductions in budgetary allocations. There h...

The purpose of the paper is to present a model factors affecting successful project implementation by introducing agility and artificial intelligence increase company’s competitiveness. In model, multidimensional constructs describing an agile work environment technologies tools were developed. These are environment, leadership, team skills capabilities, improving leader in project, adopting AI...

Market competitiveness shows a condition where company can enter the market and survive in that market. In an economic environment experiencing global crisis, it is important to study factors of so companies compete Therefore, this aims examine relationship between influence capital structure, firm performance, competitiveness. This took samples from manufacturing listed on Indonesia Stock Exch...

Anecdotal evidence from our work with software developers suggests that maintenance is a significant problem for software development companies. A problem that is absorbing increasing amounts of precious development effort. In parallel, software companies are increasingly applying process improvement principles to development problems. In this paper we discuss how maintenance is addressed in pr...