This paper seeks to examine the competitive priorities emphasized by manufacturing firms in the Caribbean. We study five manufacturing competitive priorities quality, flexibility, cost, delivery and innovation. Survey data from 60 manufacturing firms in 4 Caribbean countries show that cost and quality are most strongly emphasized while innovation is the least emphasized. The findings from our s...

This paper is concerned with the nature of the connection between services and manufacturing in manufacturing-oriented supply networks. The existing literature on manufacturing shifting into service is reviewed and, although such moves are seen as a way to increased revenue and profit, there are concerns that firms do not understand how the capabilities that underpin manufacturing may be extend...

with the rapid changes in international environments, it's very hard to sustain the corporate competitive advantage. knowing the competitive priorities leads the managers to a better understanding of corporate strategies in the future. the globalization pressure and the rapid changes in local markets have affected the firms' competitive advantages. having a clear understanding of comp...

The paper examines demographic and cognitive diversity at top-level management and its impact on the performance of Malaysian-listed companies (Plantation and Energy Sectors). Although many organisations aspire to be socially diverse, diversity’s consequences for organisational performance remain unclear. Do profitable firms tend to enhance board diversity or other attributes of the firm that c...

Under an uncertain environment, two manufacturing strategies emerged: manufacturing system automation and manufacturing system integration. Existing case studies indicate that firms should adopt manufacturing integration first and then automate the manufacturing system to improve manufacturing performance. This study empirically supports this proposition using 303 responses from manufacturing m...

Malaysia is reliant on the availability of generic medicines to contain the rising national pharmaceutical expenditure. This paper assesses the factors determining the market entry of a new generic medicine following patent expiration on the innovator product in Malaysia. Data were gathered by using mail survey approach. The prevalidated Likert-scale questionnaire was mailed to all licensed mem...

Quality management practice between the organizational performances of Small project scope management pdf and. More productive than SMEs in Malaysia SME Master Plan 2012.This paper is to examine the concept of Total Quality Management TQM and the level of awareness and implementation in the Malaysian SMES in project report website pdf the manufacturing sector.

As a result of rapid economic growth and increased influence of globalization in international trade activities, intra-industry trade (IIT) becomes prominent across Asia including Malaysia. Free trade agreements and creations of free trade areas have encourage increased cross border investments through production networking as well as fragmentation of production, especially in manufacturing sec...

the main purpose of this study is to empirically compare of intellectual capital (ic) and its efficiency between advanced and low technology manufacturing companies using a sample of 135 malaysian listed manufacturing companies during the 2006-2012 period. the manufacturing companies are classified into different sectors based on their products and services (standard industrial classification (...