International Journal of Management and Business Studies

International Journal of Management and Business Studies ISSN 2167-0439 Vol. 14 (3), pp. 001-009, March, 2025. Available online at www.internationalscholarsjournals.org © International Scholars Journals

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Core Technological Capabilities as Drivers of Sustainable Competitive Advantage in High-Tech Firms

Fakhraddin Maroofi1 and Mohammed- ali Moradi

1Department of management university of Kurdistan
2Islamic azad university sanandaj branch

Accepted 04 October, 2024

This paper fills the prior research gap through a questionnaire survey of 54 firms together with a number of interviews drawn from the Iranians information and communication technology (ICT) industry. The results suggest that capabilities of studding or utilizing technological opportunities, core technology capability, and independence of R&D decisions are important to firm reorganization in a competitive environment, whereas over duty’s to survive technologies may limit a firm's reorganization especially in such environment. Moreover, different types of competitive environment need different types of technological capabilities to increase firm unusualness. This paper provides to the survive theory by examining the joint effect of technology capability and competitive environment on a firm's reorganization.

Keywords: Technology capability; Reorganization; Competitive environment; Active capability
 

International Journal of Management and Business Studies ISSN 2167-0439 Vol. 14 (3), pp. 001-005, March, 2025. Available online at www.internationalscholarsjournals.org © International Scholars Journals

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Supply Chain Practices and Marketing Performance in Egyptian SMEs: An Empirical Study

Sayed M. ElSayed Elkhouly, Salah El Din Ismail, Gharib Husien and Sarah El Sayed El Shazely

Ain Shams University-Egypt, Helwan University

Accepted 12 November, 2024

This research examines supply chain management practice in SME firms in Egypt. A well designed survey include several items explaining the main characteristics of supply chain management which distributed to over three hundred executives working in different industry in Egypt. The response rate was over 64% representing all different industries. Statistical analysis was used to analyze the data and test the four major hypotheses in this study. The results indicate significant difference in only one hypothesis. Recommendations of this study include the following first Egyptian manufacturing companies specifically public sector should build strong IT infrastructure in order to facilitate the information sharing internal and external the firms especially, with customers. Second Egyptian manufacturing companies should ensure and facilitate the relationship between suppliers and retailers in order to increase information flow within the supply chain. Third Egyptian manufacturing companies specifically public sector that suffer from a lot of barriers facing application of lean manufacturing system in their companies, so, they should benchmark the successful lean manufacturing systems from private sector in order to enhance their lean abilities and their trading partners abilities also as to enhance performance of supply chain in the public sector manufacturing companies.
 

International Journal of Management and Business Studies ISSN 2167-0439 Vol. 14 (3), pp. 001-009, March, 2025. Available online at www.internationalscholarsjournals.org © International Scholars Journals

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Analyzing Corporate Growth through Product-Market Diversification: Evidence from Nigeria

Ade Oyedijo

Department of Business Administration and Management Technology, Lagos State University, Ojo, Lagos, Nigeria. Email: [email protected]

Accepted 05 January, 2025

This study takes diversification research to a new level of analysis by examining the performance of a sample of Nigerian companies in relation to specialization, related, unrelated and mixed product-market diversification strategies. It was proposed that firms that pursue related diversification strategy outperform and grow faster than those that attempt to pursue unrelated diversification strategy. It was further proposed that firms that pursue related diversification strategy exclusively will perform better than firms that pursue a mixed (i.e. related and unrelated) diversification strategy. Using the Panel Regression analytical technique involving correlation, F-statistics and descriptive statistics, the result of the Fixed Effect test showed that there is a high and positive correlation between financial performance and growth of firms and related diversification strategy. Related diversifiers had a relatively higher level of financial performance and growth than unrelated and mixed diversifiers. A marginal correlation was found between unrelated and mixed modes of diversification and financial performance and growth. The panel regression analysis showed that related diversification has a significant impact on performance (p< 0.05) while unrelated diversification has a negative but non-significant impact on performance and growth. The result of the F-statistics showed that there were significant performance and growth differences between firms utilizing related diversification strategies and those utilizing unrelated diversification strategies (F = 147.4405, p <0.05). The panel model result further confirmed that there is a significant difference between the performanceand growth of firms using mixed (related and unrelated) diversification strategies and the performance and growth of firms pursuing related diversification strategy exclusively. A significant difference was also found between the performance and growth of firms that develop through unrelated diversification and the performance and growth of firms that remained specialized, with firms that remained specialized performing better on all parameters and growing faster than those that develop through unrelated diversification only. The study concludes that the financial performance and growth of firms in Nigeria are significantly affected by the mode of diversification used and recommends that Nigerian firms that are seeking a sustainable fast growth and superior performance should pursue either a related product-market diversification strategy or a specialization strategy.

Keywords: Diversification, Strategy, Performance, Product-Market.
 

International Journal of Management and Business Studies ISSN 2167-0439 Vol. 14 (2), pp. 001-010, February, 2025. Available online at www.internationalscholarsjournals.org © International Scholars Journals

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Assessing the Efficacy of Nigeria's Financial Reporting Regulatory Framework in Preventing Misstatements

Dr Paul Aondona Angahar

Senior Lecturer / Deputy Dean, Department of Accounting, Faculty of Management Sciences, Benue State University, Makurdi. Nigeria. [email protected]: Tel: +234-706-801-0515

Accepted  20 January, 2025

The paper seeks to describe the operations of the regulatory framework for the prevention of financial statement misstatement/manipulation in Nigeria, which is provided by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and to assess the extent of its effectiveness in preventing misstatement/manipulation of financial statements in financial reporting in Nigeria. The Descriptive method was employed for the study; data were collected through interviews and documentary evidence. Using descriptive statistics consisting of frequencies, a measure of central tendency, visual representations made up of the bar chart, pie chart, and time series plot, the data were analyzed. The findings of the study indicated that the SEC is effective to the extent of detecting a mean of 25 cases of financial statements misstatement/manipulation annually for the study period 2003 to 2010 and thus prevented or deterred them. The regulatory agency has however been reluctant in applying the full force of the law in the enforcement of accounting rules.
    
Keywords: Regulatory framework, Accounting rules, Misstatement, Manipulation, Financial Statements, Enforcement.
 

International Journal of Management and Business Studies ISSN 2167-0439 Vol. 14 (2), pp. 001-007, February, 2025. Available online at www.internationalscholarsjournals.org © International Scholars Journals

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Strategic Synergy: Merging Quality Management with Customer-Centric Strategies

Hari Sundar.G.Ram

Associate Professor, CARE School of Business Management, Trichy,Tamil Nadu Email: [email protected]

Accepted 12 February, 2022

Emergence of newer and better technologies, mergers and acquisitions, trade policies, globalize competition has made the ground full of strategic competition among different organization. The endeavor to capture the market has seen a lot change in years and is shifting towards retaining customer. From the years down the line the market has seen a shift from Agricultural revolution to industrial revolution to information revolution which is to be followed by customer revolution. The urgent need is to understand the broad term of customer and aligning the resources towards the upgraded demands of customer. The traditional definition of organization can be viewed in a broader perspective with including those for whom organization is in existence. This includes all the stakeholders such as shareholders, customers and regulatory bodies etc. The organization will excel if it includes the customers at all the levels of the organization. The definition of internal and external customer is known to everyone; more important is to address potential customers, dormant customers and hidden customers. All the efforts of the companies should be aimed at customers. Apart from retaining the existing customers, they should strive to attract potential customers and dormant customers and at the same time alert from the threat posed by hidden customer to avoid any infiltration. The success of organization rests upon how rapidly and efficiently organization sets a rapport with the customer. The paradigm of strategic management is shifting towards customer and quality. The cutting edge competition is to develop quality products and services at the optimized cost. The concept of built in quality products can be a novel solution for creating a value for quality products. The organization should streamline all the operations for developing such built in quality products and also effectively propagating it. The organization need to understand that they got a ready source of ideas in the form of customers, so why to wait time in brainstorming for ideas. More crucial is identifying and measuring ideas through a communication channel with the customers as a continuous process. Organizational excellence of any business enterprise will depend upon its ability to envision the changing habits of above defined categories of customer and structuring the operations in accordance.

Keywords: Strategic Management, Quality Management, Dormant Customers, Hidden Customers, Built-in-quality.
 

International Journal of Management and Business Studies ISSN 2167-0439 Vol. 14 (2), pp. 001-007, February, 2025. Available online at www.internationalscholarsjournals.org © International Scholars Journals

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Internal Organizational Communication and Employee Morale: A Study of Pakistani Financial Institutions
    
Akbar Ali1 and Jahanzaib Haider2
    
Bahaudin Zakariya University, Multan1,
Sub-Campus, Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan.
Tel: 92-331-7304678, E-mail: [email protected]
Bahaudin Zakariya University, Multan2
Sub-Campus, Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan.
Tel: 92-331-3312626, E-mail: [email protected]

Accepted 12 February 2022

The study considers internal organizational communications as an important organizational factor that has an impact on employee job satisfaction. It also considers communication climate, formal communication, and informal communication as three basic dimensions of internal organizational communications. The data was collected, to measure the impact of above three dimensions of organizational communications on employee job satisfaction, from 143 employees of five banks of D. G. Khan (Pakistan). The data was analyzed through linear regression, a form of Jorion (1990) model. The results discovered that there is significant impact of all three dimensions of communications on job satisfaction.

Keywords: Organizational Communication, Job Satisfaction,    communication climate.