Evolution of Growth Model and Cultivation of Competitive Advantages Under the Ambidextrous Innovation Strategy: In the Case of China’s High-Tech Enterprises

This study focuses on the evolution of growth model and cultivation of competitive advantages under the ambidextrous innovation strategy.After a brief introduction of the connotation of ambidextrous innovation strategy,the evolution of growth model of high-tech enterprises under the conventional strategy and the ambidextrous innovation strategy is analyzed.Furthermore,a discussion is made on how to cultivate enterprises’competitive advantages under the ambidextrous innovation strategy,thereby enabling enterprises to stand out from competitors under this new strategic model and truly achieve the goal of sustainable development.

Combined soft measurement on key indicator parameters of new competitive advantages for China’s export

The estimation of the difference between the new competitive advantages of China’s export and the world’s trading powers have been the key measurement problems in China-related studies.In this work,a comprehensive evaluation index system for new export competitive advantages is developed,a soft-sensing model for China’s new export competitive advantages based on the fuzzy entropy weight analytic hierarchy process is established,and the soft-sensing values of key indexes are derived.The obtained evaluation values of the main measurement index are used as the input variable of the fuzzy least squares support vector machine,and a soft-sensing model of the key index parameters of the new export competitive advantages of China based on the combined soft-sensing model of the fuzzy least squares support vector machine is established.The soft-sensing results of the new export competitive advantage index of China show that the soft measurement model developed herein is of high precision compared with other models,and the technical and brand competitiveness indicators of export products have more significant contributions to the new competitive advantages of China’s export,while the service competitiveness indicator of export products has the least contribution to new competitive advantages of China’s export.

Thinking on Promoting International Trade Competitive Advantage of Agricultural Products in Guangxi Based on CAFTA Framework

This paper analyzes the status quo and the existing problems of international trade development of agricultural products in Guangxi based on CAFTA framework as follows: the international trade of agricultural products in Guangxi shows a trend of rapid growth, but the structure of export products is simple; the distribution of export market is irrational; the export goods are mainly the resources-intensive goods and labor-intensive goods, with low added value of goods; the brand of agricultural products lacks strong overall international competitiveness. In the context of CAFTA framework, in order to foster the international trade competitive advantage of agricultural products in Guangxi, corresponding suggestions are put forward as follows: the structure of export market should change from the current simple status to diversified trend; the structure of export goods should gradually change from the current factor endowment to the orientation of international market demand; the agricultural production should change from the traditional agricultural products to advantageous complementary characteristic agricultural products; the trade structure should change from the land-intensive agricultural products to labor-intensive and technology-intensive agricultural products; the structure of merchandise trade should change from low-price vicious competition to high added-value competition; the governmental function should change from traditional one-way-direction-oriented function to modern integrated-service-and-supervision-oriented function that meets the requirements of export.

Ultra Mobile Broadband Technology Overview and Competitive Advantages

To efficiently meet the increasing demands for mobile broadband, Ultra Mobile Broadband (UMB) is designed to complement 3G deployments. It is equipped with all the necessary features for optimal support of real-time and best-effort traffic with seamless mobility. This article overviews the UMB technology, and discusses its competitive advantages, which are fast time to market, flexible deployment options, inherently designed for real-time services and flexible IP-based network architecture. Moreover, the article analyzes key UMB design features, including Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA), advanced antenna techniques, Reverse Link (RL) sector capacity optimization, adaptive interference management mechanisms, efficient RL control design, low-overhead signaling, fast seamless handoffs, multi-carrier support and beacons, enhanced terminal battery life, and flexible IP-based network architecture. UMB is well suited to be at the center of the future that melds broadband applications with faster, more capable mobile multimedia devices. UMB’s competitive advantages provide operators with continuous differentiation today and tomorrow.

Perceived Versus Actual Competitive Advantage

This paper examined the relationship between farm characteristics and perceived sources of competitive advantage,and cost-based and revenue-based efficiency indices.Gross farm income and the percentage of labor devoted to crop production were significant and positively correlated with cost and revenue efficiency,while the perception of the cowherd being the most important part of the operation was negatively correlated with efficiency.In general,perceived sources of competitive advantage were not significantly correlated with cost or revenue efficiency.

Competitive Advantage: A Study of Saudi SMEs to Adopt Data Mining for Effective Decision Making

It is very important for organizations to develop a competitive advantage for long-term survival in the market. For this purpose, the main objective of the study was to assess the role of data mining and employee training & Development to gain a competitive advantage. Moreover, the mediating role of personnel role and knowledge management is also assessed in the present study. The data in the present study were collected from the employees of SMEs in KSA using convenient sampling. The response rate of the study was 58.36%. For the analysis of the collected data, the study used PLS 3.2.9. The findings of the study reveal that data mining and training and development plays an important role for organizations to gain a competitive advantage through Knowledge management and personnel role. The findings of the study fill the gap of limited studies conducted regarding SMEs of KSA to gain a competitive advantage. The findings of the study are helpful for the policymakers of SMEs around the globe.

Human Resource Management and Quality Assurance System to achieve Competitive Advantage

This study aims at the role of human resources management and quality assurance system to achieving the competitive advantage for the organization.Human resource management are the most important component among the organization’s components,because,even an organization owns all other resources(materials,financial,technological)without the appropriate,skilled and experienced human resources,failure will be the expected result.Addressing By the Mobilis Telecom company,the study and through exploring the recruitment resources and methods that used by the company,in hiring the best employees,and the role of these methods in achieving the competitive advantage in Telecommunications sector.The findings of the study were that the company success in the recruitment process was relying on the employment agencies,firstly and on the universities,secondly.Also the company aimed on maintaining quality assurance system through recruiting method that based on Telecommunications experience and advancement in studying.In order to achieve the competitive advantage,the Company focused on innovation and creating new products and services for its clients.The statistical analysis proved that there is a strong relationship between recruitment resources used by the Company and achieving the competitive advantage,Also a relationship between the quality assurance system of the employees and the ability to gain the competitive advantage.

The Religious Tourism as a Competitive Advantage of the Prefecture of Pieria,Greece

The scope of the present paper is the research of whether the prefecture of Pieria comprises an attractive destination for religious tourism and pilgrimage.For this reason,the use of questionnaires takes place which aims to realizing if and to what extend this form of tourism comprises a comparative and competitive advantage for the prefecture of Pieria.The research method of this paper is the qualitative research and more specifically the use of questionnaires with 13 questions in total.The scope was to research whether the prefecture of Pieria is a religious-pilgrimage destination.The sample is comprised of 102 participants,being Greek residents originating from other Greek counties,the European Union,and Third World Countries.The requirement was for the participant to have visited the prefecture of Pieria.The independency test(x2)was used for checking the interconnections between the different factors,while at the same time an allocation of frequencies was conducted based on the study and presentation of frequency as much as relevant frequency.Due to the fact that,no other similar former researches have been conducted regarding religious tourism in Pieria,this research will be able to give some useful conclusions.These conclusions will lead us to more specialized knowledge on the tourism of the under study prefecture.

Search Engine Optimization,Competitive Advantage and Market Performance of Registered Tours and Travel Agencies in Nairobi City County,Kenya

COVID-19 is a devastating pandemic with widespread negative health,social,and economic consequences.Due to drastic changes in the business environment of tour and travel agencies,firms and marketing managers can now use search engine optimization to effectively position themselves.The study’s main goal is to evaluate the effect of search engine optimization on the market performance of registered tours and travel agencies in Nairobi County,Kenya.Kenya’s tourism ministry and state government work hard to improve the business climate for tour and travel companies.Despite the overall positive image,international tourist market growth rates in Kenya have been 3.5 percent slower from 2017 to 2019 compared to previous years.This was further aggregated by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the year 2020,when the growth rate of tours and travel agencies fell by 65%.The study’s main goal is to evaluate the effect of search engine optimization on the market performance of registered tours and travel agencies in Nairobi County,Kenya.This study adopted a positivist philosophy.Both descriptive and explanatory research designs were used.A self-administered semi-structured questionnaire was used to collect data from 324 registered tours and travels agencies picked from and a sample of 179 were used.Data analysis included the development and interpretation of both descriptive and inferential statistics,such as frequencies,mean,percentages,and standard deviation,and was presented using tables and numerical values.The results of regression analysis established that search engine optimization had a positive and significant effect on market performance of the registered tours and travel agencies picked from a sample of 179.The study recommends that agency management ensure that the firm’s website is easily accessible in order to improve agency performance.Using the internet to gain a large market share can assist tours and travel agencies in improving the performance and income of their websites.

IT Infrastructure Construction:Based on Competitive Advantage

Information technology （IT） infrastructure is the foundation of information sharing, storage, and processing upon which the entire business depends and it changes not only inner organizational structures but also outer competitive conditions. An IT infrastructure that possesses elements unique to a particular organization and difficult to duplicate can produce competitive advantage. To achieve this advantage, not only the inner integration of technology, personnel and business process in a firm is needed, but also a platform for electronic commerce is required. The purpose of this study is to establish the whole concept framework for IT infrastructure, based on competitive advantage, and to propose ideas about the construction of IT infrastructure system.

Research on the Relationship between Information Technology Capabilities and Sustainable Competitive Advantages of Enterprises

Information technology capabilities and the associated theory of sustainable competitive advantages of enterprises have been studied, respectively. From the resources which form the enterprise information technology capabilities, four factors that affect sustainable competitive advantages： information technology infrastructure, human resources, intangible resources and information technology resources associated have been isolated and their mechanisms have been analyzed.

The Industrial Internet of Things:A Competitive Advantage in the Era of Smart Manufacturing

At present,the Chinese manufacturing industry’s competitive advantage is facing multiple challenges.China’s“hexagon diagram”industrial policy,which has promoted the competitive advantage of Chinese companies in the era of globalization,encompasses these six strategies:enhancing factor supply,building infrastructure,improving institutional environments,enlarging market size,promoting industrial clustering,and encouraging competition.The hexagon model of industrial policy has gained China entry into many industries and increased their competitive advantage by lowering production cost and creating full-scope value chains.Lately,this competitive advantage is facing significant challenges from globalization reversal,trade wars,and the technological revolution.Relative to anti-globalization and trade wars,however,the most profound challenge facing China’s manufacturing industry is the rise of the Industrial Internet of Things and smart manufacturing.China needs to upgrade its hexagon diagram industrial policy to keep up with new developments in the Industrial Internet of Things in today’s era of smart manufacturing.

Quantifying competitive advantages of mutant strains in a population involving importation and mass vaccination rollout

The SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant,known as B.1.617.2 and first identified in India,is becoming a dominant strain in many countries due to its extreme infectiousness.Assessing and quantifying the transmissibility and competitive advantage of the Delta variant is of major significance for countries around the world so that appropriate measures to mitigate and even eliminate the epidemic can be introduced.Aiming at such problems,we proposed a method to model the invasion process of a novel strain and estimate the competitive advantage of the invading strain over the local strain.We applied this method to study the invasion and spread of the Delta variant into England.We have estimated the basic reproduction number of the Delta variant as being 49%higher than that of the Alpha variant(CI:45-52%),assuming a mean generation interval of 5 days with a standard deviation of 3 days.In the period 11 April to 17 May 2021,the effective reproduction number of the Delta variant was 65%higher than that of the Alpha variant in England(CI:61-70%).Our results show that the Delta variant has a significantly higher transmission capacity than other strains,which explains the rebound of the epidemic in many countries,even in those with relatively high vaccination coverages.

Platform Strategies of the Chinese Commercial Drone Manufacturer:A Theoretical and Empirical Study of Ecosystem Development

From the perspective of the business ecosystem,this paper analyzes the competitive advantage and platform strategy of Da-Jiang Innovations Science and Technology Co.,Ltd.(DJI),a Chinese commercial drone manufacturer that is currently leading the global commercial drone industry.DJI was established in 2006 and developed the industry’s first core components such as drone control system.DJI released its“Phantom”in the United States in 2013 and occupied the global commercial drone market accounting for 70%in a short period of time.Its market share has maintained its superiority till present.During the inflection transition from the formation of a new ecosystem to expansion,DJI has defended and strengthened its core technology through a strong containment strategic action of competing with GoPro;therefore,DJI has obtained its hub position of multiple markets with bargaining power.In addition,DJI has entered the surrounding markets of corporate market from the general consumer market,and instilled its own product standards&design standards(reference design).Furthermore,it has stimulated and revitalized coexisting companies,individual&corporate customers for expanding the ecosystem of drone industry.

Differentiation-Based Analysis of Environmental Management and Corporate Performance

By building a duopoly model based on product differentiation, both of the clean firm＇s and the dirty firm＇s performances are studied under the assumptions that consumers have different preferences for the product environmental attributes, and that the product cost increases with the environmental attribute. The analysis results show that under either the case with no environmental regulation or that with a tariff levied on the dirty product, the clean firm would always get more profit. In addition, the stricter the regulation is, the more profit the clean finn would obtain. This can verify that from the view of product differentiation, a firm could improve its corporate competitiveness with environmental management.

An Evolution, Present, and Future Changes of Cloud Computing Services

This study presents a clear evolution of computing and its key applications. Cloud computing services evolved from distributed, grid, and utility computing. Critical companies such as Salesforce,Amazon, Google, and Microsoft play important roles in cloud computing. Dramatic changes in the technology environment have created new challenges for current information technologies. This study discusses four significant challenges for cloud computing services,including the next-generation Internet, data synchronization, cloud security, and competitive advantages.And then it also discusses how managers can learn about the future of cloud computing services.

End to End(E2E)Supply Chain Visibility-A Dynamic Capability View

In order to get a better understanding of supply chain visibility for creating strategic value,this paper uses a dynamic capability lens to reveal the nature of supply chain visibility.This paper identifies the importance of supply chain visibility in driving supply chain reconfigurability and consequently improving supply chain strategic performance.Empirical evidence shows that visibility has direct impact on supply chain strategic performance.It also supports that visibility is important for enhancing supply chain reconfigurability,thus creating strategic value in supply chains.Supply chain visibility therefore enables firms to reconfigure their supply chain resources for better competitive advantage.From the perspective of practitioners,the results display several insights into how managers should create strategic value from supply chain visibility.Prominently,managers or decision makers need to take advantage of supply chain visibility in order to use and recombine resources in value creation manner.

Research on Marketing Channel of Mobile Manufacturer Based on Analytic Hierarchy Process

Research on ＂marketing channel＂ of mobile attracts much attention in these years, but there＇re only few articles referring to how to optimize the disposition of channel resources for mobile manufacturers. Based on a typically multiplex marketing channel system of mobile manufacturer, the analytic hierarchy process （~HP） structure model is established. Through the judgment matrix, simple and total hierarchy arrangement, consistent test, this paper gets the weight of each kind of marketing channel of mobile manufacturer, it provides the practical reference value for mobile manufacturers to distribute resources of marketing channels.

Analysis of Chinese A gricultural Product Trade

This paper clarifies thestatus of Chinese agricultural product trade through the calculation of Chinese agricultural product trade competitive advantage index for a total of 21 years from 1999 to 2019.