Development of internal resources and capabilities as sources of differentiation of SME under increased global competition: A field study in Mexico

2007 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Maranto-Vargas ◽  
Rocío Gómez-Tagle Rangel
Keyword(s):  
Field Study ◽  
Global Competition ◽  
Internal Resources ◽  
Resources And Capabilities

THE VOICE OF INFORMAL ENTREPRENEURS: RESOURCES AND CAPABILITIES PERSPECTIVE

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (03) ◽  
pp. 1850015 ◽  
Author(s):  
EIJAZ AHMED KHAN
Keyword(s):  
Field Study ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Resources And Capabilities ◽  
Informal Entrepreneurship ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Associated Variables

Despite increased attention from scholars and policy makers, the growth of informal entrepreneurship and its challenges have been reported continuously and are growing frequently. However, there is an inadequate study on informal entrepreneurship growth in view of resources and capabilities. Thus, the objective of this paper is to propose a model of informal entrepreneurship in view of resources and capabilities by examining the existing literature and field study data in the context of a developing country. An exploratory field study was undertaken, where fourteen interviews were conducted. A content analysis technique was applied to identify the resources and capabilities factors with their associated variables and a research model was developed. Outcomes from field study recognized the resources and capabilities factors and variables, as well as their relationships. It vibrates well with the existing literature and establishes the proposed model. This study proposes a model for future informal entrepreneurship research and identifies theoretical and policy implications.

Strategic IT Resources and Sourcing Strategy

2011 ◽  
pp. 256-314
Author(s):  
Eng K. Chew ◽  
Petter Gottschalk
Keyword(s):  
Theory Of The Firm ◽  
Optimal Growth ◽  
Resource Base ◽  
Internal Resources ◽  
Sourcing Strategy ◽  
It Resources ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Managerial Knowledge ◽  
Resources And Capabilities ◽  
Industry Conditions

As introduced in Chapter II and Chapter V, performance differences across firms can be attributed to the variance in firms’ resources and capabilities. The essence of the resourcebased theory of the firm lies in its emphasis on the internal resources available to the firm, rather than on the external opportunities and threats dictated by industry conditions. A firm’s resources are said to be a source of competitive advantage to the degree that they are scarce, specialized, appropriable, valuable, rare, and difficult to imitate or substitute. A fundamental idea in resource-based theory is that a firm must continually enhance its resources and capabilities to take advantage of changing conditions. Optimal growth involves a balance between the exploitation of existing resource positions and the development of new resource positions. Thus, a firm would be expected to develop new resources after its existing resource base has been fully utilized. Building new resource positions is important if the firm is to achieve sustained growth. When unused productive resources are coupled with changing managerial knowledge, unique opportunities for growth are created (Pettus, 2001). The term resource is derived from the Latin word resurgere, which means “to rise” and implies an aid or expedient for reaching an end. A resource implies a potential means to achieve an end, or as something that can be used to create value. The first strategy textbooks outlining a holistic perspective focused on how resources needed to be allocated or deployed to earn rents. The interest in the term was for a long time linked to the efficiency of resource allocation, but this focus has later been expanded to issues such as resource accumulation, resource stocks, and resource flows (Haanaes, 1997).

scholarly journals What Can We Learn from the Organizational Life Cycle Theory? A Conceptualization for the Practice of Workplace Learning

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Tam ◽  
David E. Gray
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Workplace Learning ◽  
High Growth ◽  
Organizational Factors ◽  
Firm Characteristics ◽  
Organizational Life ◽  
Organizational Life Cycle ◽  
Internal Resources ◽  
Life Cycle Theory ◽  
Resources And Capabilities

<p>In the world of business and management, the practice of workplace learning is deemed important for firms to survive or stay competitive. However, firm characteristics such as business priorities, management styles, and limited internal resources and capabilities are always organizational factors that affect how firms may practice workplace learning. According to organizational life cycle (OLC) theory, during the firm’s growth from inception, to high-growth, to maturity, firm characteristics differ and the internal resources and capabilities of the firm develop. The literature has discussed the dynamics of organizational life cycle, but little is knownabout how it possibly relates to workplace learning. The paper synthesises the OLC literature and draws the characteristics of three common stages for firms (large or small) to conceptualize different patterns of workplace learning practices, promoting a new page of empirical research potential.</p>

If Managing Knowledge is the Solution, then What's the Problem?

2001 ◽  
pp. 16-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael H. Zack
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Processing ◽  
Internal Resources ◽  
Processing Capability ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Competitive Environments ◽  
Resources And Capabilities ◽  
Strategic Resource ◽  
Strategic Theories

Strategic theories of organizing are grounded in the notion that organizations should configure their internal resources and capabilities to address competitive opportunities and threats. The knowledge-based view suggests that knowledge may be the most enduring and strategic resource. This chapter presents a taxonomy for describing resources, capabilities and competitive environments in terms of four distinct yet related knowledge processing requirements or “problems”: complexity, uncertainty, equivocality and ambiguity. Each suggests a particular knowledge processing capability. The taxonomy is used to develop finer-grained distinctions regarding knowledge-based theories of the firm and the resource-based concept of inimitability.

scholarly journals Priority Policies And Program Of UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung Toward World Class University

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 30
Author(s):  
Dindin Jamaluddin ◽  
Tedi Priatna ◽  
Khaerul Umam ◽  
Epa Paujiah ◽  
D. Miharja ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Field Study ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Global Competition ◽  
University Ranking ◽  
University Policies ◽  
World Class ◽  
The University

The rising global competition makes State Islamic University (UIN) Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung, to increase the quality of its institution toward World Class University. This study aims to describe the university policies and the recommended top priority programs for the next five years (2019-2023). This study was conducted in 2019 on the campus. The study used descriptive analysis and the result was analyzed based on Quacquarelly Symonds (QS) ranking. The data was gathered using a forum group discussion and field study. The field study was in the form of benchmarking on several universities in Indonesia. The result showed that the growth rate was constant, and it can be meassured that UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung will become World Class University by 2029; It will have score 23 and will be in the 500 QS Asia World University ranking. Through annual programs and targets, UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung can achieve its goals to be a world class university. Keywords—Higher Educational Institution; QS Ranking; UIN Sunan Gunung Djati; World Class University

scholarly journals Influence of Cultural Intelligence and Psychological Capital on Service Quality: A Study of the Hotel Industry in Sabah, Malaysia

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (19) ◽  
pp. 10809
Author(s):  
Mary Monica Jiony ◽  
Tek Yew Lew ◽  
Daria Gom ◽  
Geoffrey Harvey Tanakinjal ◽  
Stephen Sondoh
Keyword(s):  
Service Quality ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Cultural Intelligence ◽  
Psychological Capital ◽  
Hotel Industry ◽  
Frontline Employees ◽  
Internal Resources ◽  
Service Excellence ◽  
Resources And Capabilities ◽  
Hotel Managers

Cultural intelligence (CQ) and psychological capital (PsyCap) are two critical characteristics that can be leveraged to develop dynamic hotel frontline employees capable of sustaining service excellence. While both the hotel industry and researchers have followed this trend, there are few studies in the research setting that delve into this relationship. This study examines the effects of cultural intelligence on service quality with psychological capital serving as a mediating variable. To confirm the proposed hypotheses, this study collects 300 questionnaires from four- and five-star hotels. For quantitative analysis, partial least squares structural equation modelling was used. The findings revealed that PsyCap is favorably associated with three components of CQ (metacognitive, motivational, and behavioral elements). Simultaneously, the CQ cognitive and behavioral elements were found to be positively related with service quality (SQ). These findings offer hotel managers practical guidance on how to evaluate critical internal resources and capabilities as a source to implementing and sustaining human resource practices.

scholarly journals Una gestión activa de los intangibles empresariales y su incidencia en los resultados financieros de un modo sostenible

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 1117
Author(s):  
Lidia García-Zambrano ◽  
Arturo Rodríguez-Castellanos ◽  
José Domingo García-Merino
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Field Study ◽  
Basque Country ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
The Core ◽  
Intangible Resources ◽  
Resources And Capabilities ◽  
Telephone Calls ◽  
The Difference

It is widely accepted that the allocation of intangible resources and capabilities has become the difference between firms. However, only a few of them allow to gain a competitive advantage, so-called core competencies. Most of the studies about to the intangibles and firms performance consider only the stock held by the company, and they do not considered intangibles management. Therefore, our objective is to test whether the core competencies management translates into improved sustainably performance, measured through ROA. To this end, a field study was performed, by making telephone calls to Basque Country companies’ financial managers, and favorable evidence was obtained.

scholarly journals GLOBALIZATION TRANSFORMATION OF INNOVATION COMPONENT IN A SYSTEM OF PRIORITIES IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (2(64)) ◽  
pp. 320-326
Author(s):  
S.A. Tsyganov ◽  
V.O. Sizonenko
Keyword(s):  
Open Economy ◽  
Innovation System ◽  
National Innovation System ◽  
Global Competition ◽  
Innovative Development ◽  
Innovative Technologies ◽  
Internal Resources ◽  
The World ◽  
Innovation Space ◽  
National Economies

This article explores the nature and characteristics of the innovation economy, its place and role in the world economy. Considered the world experience of regulation of innovative development in the context of the challenges of global competition. Determined methodological basis for the formation of international competitive advantages of the country in the global innovation space. Proved that the innovative development of national economies under global transformations due to the necessity of forming a model of open economy, which would be competitive and innovative optimally combine the available internal resources of the economic system and the benefits of international cooperation in the field of innovation in the increasingly global competition. Proved that innovation in terms of one of the key factors in international competitiveness of national economies is their innovative capacity, which reflects the potential for the creation and use of modern innovative technologies. The efficiency of the national innovation system primarily depends on a complex system of interaction between enterprises that produce innovative products, research organizations to develop and help implement into production new products and technologies, which allows to optimize the use of available resources innovation and create effective innovative environment that is catalyst for generating new innovative technologies. Grounded conditions and factors of formation and development of innovative economy in Ukraine. A public policy measures that aim to transform the transformation of the national innovation system, the development of innovative potential and a favorable investment climate, innovative and innovation environment in Ukraine.

scholarly journals The Importance of Internal Resources and Capabilities and Destination Resources to Explain Firm Competitive Position in the Spanish Tourism Industry

2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 341-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
César Camisón ◽  
Alba Puig-Denia ◽  
Beatriz Forés ◽  
María Eugenia Fabra ◽  
Azahara Muñoz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Competitive Position ◽  
Internal Resources ◽  
Resources And Capabilities
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