Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the competitive strategy emphasised by SMEs in order to cope with global competition. Design/methodology/approach – A self-administrative questionnaire was distributed to 300 potential respondents in the F&B and T&C manufacturing industries throughout Malaysia. A total of 212 respondents or small and medium enterprises returned the completed que...

In the past few decades, researchers have witnessed a paradigm shift in Human Resource Management-from individual performance to organizational outcomes with the role of Human resource (HR) managers becoming increasingly significant to the organization. In such a context, it is important to examine HR practices from a strategic perspective on the sustained competitive advantage (SCA) of the org...

Received: 18 November 2008 Revised: 9 June 2009 Accepted: 10 August 2009 Abstract Previous research has investigated the relationships between intellectual capital (IC) and human resource management (HRM). Others have described the link between IC and strategic initiatives in an organization including strategic human resource management (SHRM). However, little systematic work has been done to d...

Excerpt] The notion that compensation policies are strategic, thereby affecting the missions of the organization, has considerable currency. This is part of the current popularity of all things strategic. While some may write it off as another fad, a less cynical view is that a strategic perspective on compensation is part of a growing recognition that macro-organizational issues are an importa...

This paper analyses the conditions of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system implementations on the basis of research conducted among practitioners dealing with ERP projects. The study discusses how the researched projects were linked with enterprise strategy, how their efficiency was measured and in what extent they defined implementation goals. The investigated projects were divided into g...