Firms pursue diversification for sake enhancing financial performance. Some theories state positive relationship between diversification and financial performance. However, there are some theories for negative relationship about the issue. The study has filled the gap that most studies done in developed countries and there are fewer studies in developing country like Malaysia. In this study, re...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute to a better understanding of competitive strategy and performance measurement in the Malaysian context by applying a modified version of Conant et al’s generic strategy scale and categorizing Malaysian firms along the Miles and Snow business strategy typology. Design/methodology/approach – Competitive strategy and performance measurement were...

Servitization, i.e. the transition from manufacturing products to providing combinations of products and services, is expected to have many financial and strategic benefits for manufacturing firms. However, making this shift from product towards services can be very difficult; and manufacturing companies? investment in service business may not always result in corresponding higher performance. ...

â â â  â â â â â â  â  abstract â  based on the recent literature of heterogeneous firms, productive firms self select themselves into foreign markets. in this framework, there is a productivity rise prior to exporting. on the other words, different export performance across firms is linked to their heterogeneity. â  the main purpose of the present paper is to examine the so-called hypothesis o...

Drawing upon the resource-based view and situated learning theory, this study examined effect of green human resource management (HRM) practices on firm environmental innovativeness. The moderating role organizational innovative culture relationship between HRM innovativeness was also assessed. A survey 212 furniture manufacturing companies in Malaysia analyzed using structural equation modelin...

Sustainability is integral for organizations to manage environmental issues. Environmental awareness among stakeholders builds pressure on manufacturers adopt green human resource management practices (GHRMPs), system (EMS), and foster organizational citizenship behavior the environment (OCBE) improve sustainable performance (SP). This study investigates mediating effects of OCBE EMS relationsh...

Indian manufacturing firms operating in rapidly changing and highly competitive market, over the last few decades, have embraced organization-wide transformation to achieve cultural and operational excellence. In recent years, numerous approaches have been proposed to improve business and manufacturing performance. Lean practices in particular, Total Productive Management (TPM) and Total Qualit...

This paper presents the existing state of cooperation issues among European manufacturing firms. We have conducted a survey within several European countries and asked their manufacturing firms with at least 20 employees if they are keen to cooperate with other firms and other institutions in the field of R&D with universities and other research institutions, R&D with other firms (customers and...