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LOGISTICS COMPETENCES AS THE CORE COMPETENCES OF A FIRM AFFECTING BUSINESS COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE CREATION
2017
Firms are constantly looking for ways leading to competitive advantage creation. Such advantage may be embedded on business success potentials including resources, capabilities and competences. From business competitive advantage perspective, the most significant potentials are competences. The effective and efficient exploitation of the competences may contribute to the achievement of the expected market and economic outcomes by the firm. Such outcomes are the symptoms of business success and the basis for business competitive advantage creation. In recent years one may notice an increasing significance of logistics seen as the crucial factor (or set of factors) of a firm success as well a…
Przesłanki tworzenia przewagi konkurencyjnej w oparciu o strategiczny profil logistycznych potencjałów sukcesu przedsiębiorstwa
2018
Firms are constantly looking for ways leading to business competitive advantage creation, which is one of the most important issues within the area of strategic management. Among the factors affecting the creation of this advantage, an important place is occupied by the logistics potentials of business success, including resources, capabilities and competences related to the logistics area. The purpose of the article is to identify the premises of business competitive advantage creation, based on the so-called strategic profile of logistics potentials of success, which consists of: (1) first-order potentials, which are logistics resources, in particular the so-called key resources, constitu…
Logistics Capabilities in Achieving the Firm's Competitive Position and Market Success
2019
Firms are constantly looking for ways to build and strengthen their competitiveness. The most important dimensions of the firm’s competitiveness are the firm’s competitive position as well as the firm’s market success. An important role among the most significant factors affecting the firm’s competitiveness is assigned to the firm’s capabilities, including logistics capabilities. The aim of the article is to present the possibilities of the influence of the firm’s logistics capabilities on the firm’s competitive position as well as the firm’s achievement of market success. In particular, the following issues are presented in the article: (1) the nature of the firm’s capabilities, including …
Ethical Behavior and Organizational Innovation: Analysis of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Latvia
2018
Abstract Innovations can provide small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) a significant competitive advantage considering the ambiguous business environment. SMEs may face lower capacity and more constrained funding for long-term investments, however, understanding innovation in a broader sense and looking into organizational structures, behaviors and processes, SMEs have an opportunity to become more competitive. This study analyzes the impact of ethical behavior as a part of an organizational culture on organizational innovation performance in SMEs. Six hundred SMEs in Latvia were surveyed to assess whether employees follow the principles of business ethics in their work and what is the …
Logistics potentials of success as the factors affecting firm performance
2019
Firms are permanently looking for ways to achieve expected market and economic outcomes, which are the basis for superior performance as well as strong, long-term competitive advantage. The most important market outcomes are: (1) customer satisfaction, (2) customer loyalty, and (3) marketshare. In turn, the most important economic outcomes are: (1) profit, (2) profitability, and (3) return on investment (ROI). In achieving such performance and advantage the important role is assigned - among others - to the so-called logistics potentials of success. Logistics potentials of success are significant parts of the “general” firm potentials of success, which comprise: (1) resources, (2) capabilit…
Migrating from a Centralized Data Warehouse to a Decentralized Data Platform Architecture
2021
To an increasing degree, data is a driving force for digitization, and hence also a key asset for numerous companies. In many businesses, various sources of data exist, which are isolated from one another in different domains, across a heterogeneous application landscape. Well-known centralized solution technologies, such as data warehouses and data lakes, exist to integrate data into one system, but they do not always scale well. Therefore, robust and decentralized ways to manage data can provide the companies with better value give companies a competitive edge over a single central repository. In this paper, we address why and when a monolithic data storage should be decentralized for imp…
Challenges in Geographically Distributed Information System Development : A Case Study
2021
Geographically distributed information system development (ISD) projects are more and more common, especially among organisations operating in global markets. Distributed ISD yields potential competitive advantages by developing new products near the target markets, utilizing global labour markets, and exposing the organisation to innovations, ideas and new paradigms. However, distributed ISD also presents challenges and problems which organisations must take into consideration. The pivotal challenge is usually communication. People working on the same project in different locations find it difficult to communicate due to lack of formal and informal face-to-face communication, different wor…
Demographic determinants of creativity: the analysis of the development of creative potential and forecast for the Baltic states
2017
AbstractHuman capital, affected by the demographic determinants, nowadays becomes a novel driver of change and regional development. Changes in the modern economy determine the future leading role of human capital, especially its creative dimension in the development of modern, sustainable competitive advantages of countries and regions. Considering the negative demographical tendencies in the Baltic States, the aim of this paper is to analyse and forecast the development of creative potential in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. Our methodology is based on the estimation of a regression model describing the relations between Global Creativity Index (GCI) and its components with the available …
The dynamics of Italian competitive positioning in the Mediterranean Bluefin tuna industry
2020
The bluefin tuna or Thunnus thynnus is one of the widely recognised fish species since ancient times. Italy is the most important players in the international arena, however, the introduction of a system of total allowable catches and other measures established by the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, has deeply changed the competitive positioning of Italy. The aim of this study is to perform an analysis of the comparative advantage of Italy by using the relative trade advantage index. Findings reveal that Italy has gained a competitive advantage in the Maltese market and has suffered a loss of the historical competitive advantage in the Japanese one. Results …
Intellectual Capital – The Key for Sustainable Competitive Advantage for the SME's Sector
2015
Abstract With the adoption of the Lisbon Agenda and its major objective, namely that the EU would become the most dynamic and competitive knowledge based economy in the world, it became clear the Small and Medium Enterprises (SME's) are the especially affected by these plans, because they represent the driving force for the European economy. In this context of creating and maintaining a competitive advantage for the SME's, it is crucial for them to make good use of the intellectual capital of their employees, in an efficient and proficient manner, in order to increase their potential for innovation. The aim of this article is to show, through an original argumentation, based on the analysis…