Effects of Partner Characteristic, Partnership Quality, and Partnership Closeness on Cooperative Performance: A Study of Supply Chains in High-tech Industry

Mei-Ying Wu,Yun-Ju Chang,Yung-Chien Weng KINFORMS 2009 Management Review Vol.4 No.2

Owing to the rapid development of information technology, change of supply chain structures, trend of globalization, and intense competition in the business environment, almost all enterprises have been confronted with unprecedented challenges in recent years. As a coping strategy, many of them have gradually viewed suppliers as “cooperative partners”. They drop the conventional strategy of cooperating with numerous suppliers and build close partnerships with only a small number of selected suppliers. This paper aims to explore partnerships between manufacturers and suppliers in Taiwan’s hightech industry. Through a review of literature, four constructs, including partner characteristic, partnership quality, partnership closeness, and cooperative performance are extracted to be the basis of the research framework, hypotheses, and questionnaire. The questionnaire is administered to staff of the purchasing and quality control departments in some high-tech companies in Taiwan. The proposed hypotheses are later empirically validated using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and structural equation modeling (SEM). This paper expects to provide substantial suggestions to enterprises in the high-tech industry and help them develop mutually beneficial partnerships.

Innovation Factory and Innovation Atelier Business Design for ‘Routinized Innovation’

Ursula Deplazes,Wolfgang Deplazes,Roman Boutellier KINFORMS 2009 Management Review Vol.4 No.1

The paper aims at addressing the challenge how to design the firm’s innovation activities while taking into account requirements stemming from the progressive routinization of innovation, the need for ambidexterity and contingency. The authors adopt a perspective of business design and introduce the complementary concepts of ‘Innovation Factory’ and ‘Innovation Atelier’. In combination with findings from a series of case studies of business design, the approach builds on insights stemming from systems theory, economic theories of growth, process philosophy, theories of business design, and theories of contingency on organization. The authors support their argument with a case study of a Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) manufacturer.

Strategic Supply Chain for Global Customer Relationship in e-Business Management

Chang Won Lee KINFORMS 2006 Management Review Vol.1 No.1

Supply chain and customer management for e-integration process has recently received a great deal of attention due to the strategic importance in business entities. A behavioral model is developed that considers several alternatives to expand existing e-business logistic management, or to construct new production-marketing collaboration. Survey study conducts for identifying characteristics of SCM and CRM. This study identifies 1) SERVQUAL dimensions with four outcome variables: purchasing intention, commitment, transition intention, and loyalty for CRM, and 2) five SCM performance measurement: cost, lead-time, feedback, inventory, and reliability performance. The results suggest that management can achieve strategic gains in CRM along with a significant competitiveness of SCM.

Forty Winks: The Organizational Benefits of Reducing Employee Sleep Deficit

Pamela R. Johnson KINFORMS 2009 Management Review Vol.4 No.1

Americans are tired and instead of working to live they are living to work. Previously, the pace of life was dictated by nature, hours of sunlight, and the tides. Now, it is being dictated by economic necessity, and the boundaries between work and life are being blurred. In fact, 70 million Americans are sleep-deprived. Many companies are now beginning to address employee fatigue because they recognize that fatigue is behind on-the-job accidents, absenteeism, lower productivity, and higher health care costs. This paper will describe the causes of sleep deprivation, the costs to organizations, the benefits of power napping, what employees can do, what companies have done, and what other companies can do to help their workforce feel better while improving productivity and at the same time reducing accidents and health care costs.

Investments into Primorsky Territory

Evgenia Rubinshteyn KINFORMS 2015 Management Review Vol.10 No.1

In the balanced economy the investments are the basic condition of economic development, and in the economy captured by crisis, investment activity acts as the main condition of economic revival. This thesis is axiomatic enough and was repeatedly proved by world economic practice. Russian economists as their foreign colleagues consider investments as long-term capital investments to various spheres of economy, social programs, protection of environment as within the country, and abroad for the purpose of development of manufacture, social sphere, business, and profit increase. Situation in the Russian economy now such is that investments are extremely necessary for it. Therefore the subject of this article is extremely important.

A Consulting Case of Rural Development Project in Korea

ByungJin Kwak,Kyung-Soo Noh,Ho-Kyun Shin KINFORMS 2011 Management Review Vol.6 No.2

With digital convergence era, spreading trends in terms of green management in the agricultural sector has rapidly developed with various fusion technologies. Consulting industry has not neglected to take actions into flow of rural development as alternative engines of green growth policy. Thus, this study intends to introduce a successful consulting case of rural development project in Korea. This study summarizes how the actual consulting project afferent to reduce the waste of time centered on the background, difficulties and key success concepts. Some contributions of this study are first the article is a good benchmarking practice for other local governments and NonGovernment Organizations. Second is to prove that the consulting practices are also applicable in the agricultural section as well. Third, the study improves the general prejudice with respect to rural development projects caused by aging tendency of farming population. In the future studies, more focus on the role of consulting firms and their continuous support would advance the literature.

Three Core Competences and Product Architecture Strategy: Case Studies of Indian Markets

Young Won Park KINFORMS 2014 Management Review Vol.9 No.2

The aim of this article is to discuss the emerging challenges of global supply chains and their need for understanding the upstream and downstream collaborative Global network for global markets in the context of Emerging economies. This article explores the following research questions: (1) What particular success factors from the perspectives of core competences and product architecture. (2) In the context of Emerging economies, how are these business practices implemented? This article presents new linkage competence models that include three types of competencies plus the concept of product architecture. From these theoretical lenses, we analyze cases of Japanese global firms in India. Increasingly, Japanese firms sustain their global advantage by utilizing manufacturing capacities and market strategies in India. This paper deals with the strategic practices of Japanese manufacturers—particularly Toyota, Honda, and Denso. These firms not only use India as their production ba

Analysis for Financial Soundness Indicator of Mongolian Financial System

Z.Oyuntsatsral,B.Mukhzaya KINFORMS 2012 Management Review Vol.7 No.2

We did our research work for sustainability status of Mongolian financial section on the basis of interconnection between financial soundness indicator and financial section corporate governance index. In financial soundness indicator, 40 items of International monetary fund were included and corporate index contained illustrations which can define banks development of the world. From the result view of research done at the end of 2011, it was clear that Mongolian financial section had been unsustainable. In addition evaluation model for Mongolian financial soundness was developed, having taken financial soundness indicators from the first quarter of 2000 to fourth quarter of 2011 and other macro economic variables as well as major indicators, of deposit taking institutions, including capital adequacy, non performing loan, profitability, financial leverage, liquidity, GDP growth into econometric research consideration. From the view of econometric research output, that R squared for capital adequacy is 94 % and it is 69 for performing loan, 73% for profitability, 97% for financial leverage, 64% for liquidity, 48% for GDP growth was made definite.

Innovation Capabilities in Bio-Pharmaceutical R&D

Hyunju Rachel Kim,Fred Phillips KINFORMS 2013 Management Review Vol.8 No.1

Innovation is the key to success for any organization and distinguishes a firm from its competitors. Definitions of innovation vary by industries, as industrial features require distinctive innovation capabilities. This paper describes the biopharmaceutical industry’s idiosyncratic issues, innovation-related challenges, success factors, and a close relationship between corporate strategy and innovation. Currently, the biopharmaceutical industry needs to be better equipped to handle current market factors including the influence of globalization and new drug laws. To reflect the industrial challenges, this paper contextualizes biopharmaceutical innovation and its success factors, and frames distinctive innovation capabilities by literature and theories. This paper contends that innovation capability consists of managerial capability and its strategic behavior.

Organizational Learning Process through M & A: The Case of F Company

Ryosuke Sugie KINFORMS 2018 Management Review Vol.13 No.2

In this research, externally acquired knowledge was used to study the process of forming new organizational routines. Specifically, based on Huber’s (1991) organization learning process, we analyzed the theory of knowledge absorption capacity and stickiness of information. We conducted a case study of F company, which acquired knowledge through M & A, and in the course of that process, we learned about the organization and clarified the process formed in the organizational routine of new product development. This study of organization learning was mainly simulation verified and makes a theoretical contribution to the concrete execution of analysis using actual corporate cases.