Executive

using structural equation modeling, the current study aims to examine the relationship between organizational structure, competitive strategies and organizational performance with respect to the interaction between structure and competitive strategy in the engineering consulting firms. this orientation is determined with respect to the desired approach (contingency or resource based view). the ...

Nowadays, university students suffer from a broad range of problems, such as educational underachievement or the inability to control themselves, that lead to procrastination as a consequence. The present research aimed at analyzing the determinants of decisional procrastination among undergraduate students and at assessing a path model in which self regulated learning strategies mediated the r...

Spirited debate in the field of strategic management wages as to whether competitive advantage is sustainable or merely temporary in today's highly dynamic environments. The objectivity of the debate, however, suffers from a lack of specificity regarding the terms " sustainable " and " temporary. " That is, the amount of time or duration of a sustained or temporary competitive advantage is neve...

Yohanes Kristianto PhD student, University of Vaasa [email protected]/ This paper focuses on duopolistic competition under price and production postponement for two differentiable products that share component commonality. Both price and production postponement are benchmarked in order to investigate the component commonality effect on profit and also their appropriateness in different competitio...

An examination of brand prices in several categories reveals that the distribution of prices is multi-modal with firms offering shallow and deep discounts. Another interesting feature of these distributions is that they may have holes in the interior of the support. These pricing distributions do not occur in extant theoretical models of price promotions. We develop a dynamic model of competiti...

We attempt to address the challenge of suggesting a useful bidding strategy to an agent in the an ad auction setting. We explore the possibility of using competitive safety strategies in that context; aC-competitive strategy guarantees a payoff which is no less than a factor of C of the payoff obtained in a best Nash equilibrium. We adopt the model of ad auctions suggested by Varian and provide...

the goal of this paper is to compile strategies for a chinese international telecommunication vendor which entered into iran telecom market in the year 2000. since zte is involved with business in more than 135 countries and it is out of our power to collect huge data from all over the world, we have limited our strategies to iranian market and we will compile strategies for iran business unit...

a r t i c l e i n f o This study examines the characteristics of organizational structure that relate to hybrid competitive strategies. Such strategies seek to obtain higher performance levels by simultaneously emphasizing high differentiation and low-cost levels. In addition, this paper analyzes the mediating role of competitive strategy in the relationship between organizational structure and...

The current strategies of increasing work-life quality are being given special attention by both public and private organizations. These quality strategies have arisen because of the highly competitive environment. Also, a safe and healthy work environment that provides the opportunities for employees to enhance their loyalty, affiliation and love towards their work and organization is required...