Analyse stratégique d'Air France-KLM
Case study - 23 pages - Business strategy
We have chosen following framework for the assignment about Air France - KLM : What is our (Air France - KLM) competitive advantage, how to consolidate it and ensure its continued existence? How to grow on this competitive advantage? We are aware of Air France - KLM has several different and...
Determinants of the maintenance of ISO 9000 certification in Thailand: An empirical study
Thesis - 8 pages - Business strategy
Since 1993 to 2004, there have been 5,833 organizations in Thailand registered for ISO 9000 certificates. Of these, systematic random sampling is used to obtain 276 organizations as studied sample to investigate determinants of the maintenance of ISO 9000 certification. It is hypothesized that...
Integrating supply chain management and strategic management: The basis for analysis of the grain industry
Thesis - 6 pages - Management
The observed corporate changes in many supply chains in Australia suggest that instability rather than stability is a consistent pattern in corporate supply chain relationships. This observation should not be surprising given the dynamic impacts of competitive strategy and has been extensively...
Conceptualization and operationalization of process management from multiple theoretical lens (A hybrid approach)
Thesis - 8 pages - Management
We cast doubt on the adequacy of current conceptualization and operationalization of process management (PM) based on quality management (QM), particularly when PM is considered as comprising of only control and incremental improvement practices. Furthermore, the dimensionality of PM is hitherto,...
Decision support for knowledge intensive business processes
Essay - 5 pages - Management
Strategy development, new product introduction, marketing research, and financial budgeting, are a few examples of Knowledge Intensive Business Processes (KIBPs). These processes tend to be complex and time consuming, requiring collaboration and the sharing of expertise within specific work...
Empirical study on effect of quality management on competitive performance in manufacturing companies: International perspective
Thesis - 11 pages - Management
This paper presents results of an empirical analysis on quality management and its impact on competitive performance. These results have been derived from the third round survey conducted during 2003 and 2004 under the framework of High Performance Manufacturing Project. After presenting a simple...
System development service quality: Measurement development and validation
Essay - 12 pages - Management
In recent years, IS researchers have become increasingly interested in service quality of information system functions. However, one area that receives little attention is the service quality of the information system development process. The current study attempts to fill this gap by developing...
Group key management on tree-based braid groups
Tutorials/exercises - 10 pages - Management
The characteristic of mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) build temporary dynamic network without any fixed infrastructure and limitation of power and computing capability present the challenge in secure communication. The existing key management protocols in wire network still do not suitable in...
Reasons for doing qualitative research into strategic decision-making process
Tutorials/exercises - 7 pages - Business strategy
Strategic decision-making process is a crucial part of strategy formulation and implementation. However, most inquiries into strategic decision-making process use quantitative methods. Even if there have been calls for more qualitative method for decision-making research, most researchers still...
Forecasting time series using neural network model: Application for Korean stock market
Thesis - 8 pages - Finance
This study examines the performance of forecasting model established by using neural network. The neural network model proposed in this study is implemented to forecast the stock price stream of Korean stock market. Factors for forecasting that influence Korean stock market are obtained by the...
A study on purchase intention of internet consumers using fuzzy ART (Adaptive Resonance Theory)
Tutorials/exercises - 7 pages - Logistics
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the purchase intention of consumers in the online bookstore. AIO (Activities, Interests and Opinions), a method of measuring consumers' lifestyle, and Factor Analysis are performed to understand consumers' propensity and to find out the main factors which...
An autonomous knowledge acquisition system toward the ubiquitous knowledge management
Tutorials/exercises - 13 pages - Management
Knowledge management (KM), which pursues dynamic knowledge creation and sharing within and among organizations, had been boomed since the end of the last century. However, because of some technical limitations as well as cultural barriers, the concept of KM has been getting buried alive,...
An empirical reflection on the needs for and consequences of operational and technical integration with ERP projects
Tutorials/exercises - 7 pages - Management
This research article is set against the background of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) as a solution to address operational and technical integration to support daily operations. It aims at characterizing ERP projects by their reasons for initiation in particular considering integration...
Study on the effects of the relationship between contingency variables and BSC system property variables on BSC system performance
Tutorials/exercises - 13 pages - Management
Compared to the functions provided by the BSC system, previous research studies on BSC system did not take into consideration the organizational environments or were unable to reflect its theoretical structure. In this study, the interaction between the relationship of contingency variables and...
An empirical study on the relationship between outsourcing determinant factors and outsourcing performance in Korea
Essay - 10 pages - Business strategy
The Outsourcing Industry has grown at a swift pace and evolved over time, and the Global IT Outsourcing market has shown signs of a steady growth. The domestic IT Outsourcing market is also no exception. The domestic IT Outsourcing industry is characterized by a bigger share of a captive market...
An exploratory study on consumer psychological contracts
Thesis - 4 pages - Management
The concept of the psychological contract is widely applied in organizational research. This article explores the consumer psychological contract in marketing context. Some situations are designed in a questionnaire and the data are analyzed. The findings show that whether the consumer...
A study on the complementary use of EC and CLD in developing win-win solution for traditional manufacturing dilemma
Essay - 5 pages - Management
In decision making processes, it is important to fully understand the problematic situation as well as providing a solution. In order to address and fully understand problematic situations, this paper suggests a complementary method that demonstrates how the Evaporating Cloud (EC) Diagram in the...
A model of contingent governance choice and performance in business process outsourcing: the effects of relational and process uncertainty
Tutorials/exercises - 12 pages - Business strategy
Business process outsourcing (BPO) is rapidly emerging as an imperative for competitive success in modern organizations. This study characterizes contractual coordination, or the mutual exchange of rights, and procedural coordination, or the relational norms and processes that facilitate mutual...
A contextual framework for understanding power, politics, & performance dynamics in project management
Essay - 6 pages - Management
In the last two decades important gains have been made in our knowledge of project management. Much of this knowledge has focused on creating better tools to plan, execute, and control projects. There are, however, other important determinants of project success. Three areas which have received...
A benchmark of finding the criteria for optimal portfolio choice
Tutorials/exercises - 17 pages - Finance
In today's rapidly changing economic environments, global portfolio investors are invariably confronted with dynamic and fluid choice of criteria that enable them to exercise subjective judgment on asset portfolio choice decisions. The subjective investment portfolio choice includes the...
A revenue management model for make-to-order bidding
Essay - 9 pages - Management
This paper extends the single-period price and due date setting model for contingent Make-to-Order (MTO) firm into a finite-period stochastic system. Based on the revenue management framework (viewing every single available timeslot of production capacity as a perishable product), MTO firms can...
From habitual problems to a systematic approach for problem solving
Thesis - 7 pages - Management
The current presentation- the systematic approach for problem solving. Starting from identifying the habitual problems in an organization, this leads to the awareness to the areas of concern. Then, performance measure is assigned to monitor the habitual problems. It aims to be a tool to highlight...
Corporate venturing as a major corporate strategic initiative
Essay - 15 pages - Business strategy
This paper reviews selected literature on internal corporate venturing in order to help build a venture management framework for scholars as well as managers. It includes a discussion of the various definitions authors have proposed, corporate venturing success drivers, and the different internal...
The impact of power on relationship commitment in supply chains
Thesis - 11 pages - Management
While power-relationship commitment theory in relationship marketing area has been established well in the west literature, few studies examine the robustness of it in the Chinese context with a different culture. The generalization of power-relationship commitment theory in supply chain triple...
The relationships among information sharing, process integration and supply chain responsiveness
Thesis - 5 pages - Management
How to survive and develop in this hyper competitive environment has become a major concern for many companies. To deal with the increasing uncertainty, manufacturers need to respond the customer demands quickly. But manufacturers can not improve supply chain responsiveness by themselves, they...
RFID adoption timing: The application of option pricing model
Thesis - 6 pages - Finance
This paper aims to investigate the characteristics of RFID adoption and find a feasible way to decide the optimal adoption timing for RFID adoption. Due to the significant investment of this technology, RFID implementation could be considered in two stages -- internal and external adoption....
The impact of alignment between supply chain strategy and is strategy on SCM performance
Thesis - 13 pages - Management
Supply chain (SC) strategy and information system (IS) strategy to implement Supply Chain Management (SCM) processes have been individually regarded as the vital and imperative ways to improve SCM performance. Yet what kinds of IS strategies to be implemented under what condition of manufacturing...
Knowledge bases for users' attitudes toward ERP systems
Thesis - 7 pages - Management
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems have gained much attention from both practitioners and researchers because they are generally regarded as tools to improve business efficiency and employee productivity. Previous surveys featured ERP software markets as high potential margin and intense...
Firm characteristics and stock return
Essay - 5 pages - Finance
“What determines stock returns?” Although the answer to this question has been much sought by researchers and investors, most studies to date are empirical in nature and provide a very limited view of the problem. The general findings are that certain firm characteristics do have an...
Impact of leadership style on performance: A study of six sigma professionals in Thailand
Thesis - 8 pages - Management
Superior performance requires a fundamental paradigm shift in managerial approach and leadership style to address the impact of rapidly evolving technology accompanied by increasing competition and market globalization. Six Sigma is one of the quality and productivity improvement initiatives...
