The contribution of the manufacturing sector to GRDP South Sumatra Province is 19.72 percent in 2020. A large percentage does not necessarily indicate potential processing industry become a leading sector, so it necessary identify sector. So that this study aims competitiveness sub-sector. method used are Static Location Quetionts (SLQ), Dynamic (DLQ), Dispersion Power Index (IDP), Sensitivity ...

Economic theory suggests that firms can gain competitive advantage, thereby impeding the normalization of risk-adjusted returns relative to industry peers. Thus, these advantages directly impact a firm’s future profitability as well as the assumptions incorporated into forecasting and valuation models. This paper utilizes realized operating performance, adjusted by estimates of operational risk...

Electronic business (e-business) today plays a major role in the world’s economy. Forester Research estimated that, by 2003, the value of e-commerce of US and Europe will reach US$ 3 trillion. As the e-marketplace becomes more lucrative, it attracts new entrants and created turmoil in the market. There have been many spectacular successes and many failures. This paper presents a study of e-busi...

Globalization had forced fashion companies to move their manufacturing to low cost bases. However, in the recent times several challenges like poor transparency, ethical issues, high transportation costs, long lead times, etc. have motivated major reshoring initiatives. Steadily the fashion companies in the west are relocating back their production and are motivated by trends of greater product...

In most professional sports, playing field structure is kept neutral so that scoring imbalances may be attributed to differences in team skill. It thus remains unknown what impact environmental heterogeneities can have on scoring dynamics or competitive advantages. Applying a novel generative model of scoring dynamics to roughly 10 million team competitions drawn from an online game, we quantif...

Society today has great expectations on small firms’ contribution to society as a whole. To be able to contribute small firms have to be competitive. Competitive advantage based on competence is not as easily copied by competitors, and, hence, more sustainable. Even though competence can be complicated to imitate, continual environmental changes mean that competence is not static and will not p...

Convergence effects between telecommunication, information technology, media and entertainment (TIME) markets lead to additional value-added opportunities within these markets, allowing new intermediaries to enter the market [1, 2]. On the other hand, due to these effects traditional entry barriers of these markets disappear and new forms of competition and substitution for existing suppliers a...