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The Effect of Performance Accountability and Internal Control on Good Governance, Supply Chain Governance and its Impact on Government Performance
Get PDFThe government's performance in carrying out good governance is a prerequisite for realizing the aspirations of society and achieving the ideals of the nation and state. This study analyzes the effect of Accountability and Internal Control on Good Governance, and supply chain governance, and its impact on government performance. This study uses an ex post facto quantitative approach, with survey methods and correlational designs. The data collected is quantitative primary data in associative form supported by secondary data. Data instruments for this study were questionnaires which were evaluated for their validity and reliability prior to further analysis. Data evaluation was performed using SPSS 22 for Windows. The results showed that the variables of performance accountability and internal control had a positive and significant effect on good governance and supply chain governace and had a positive and significant impact on government performance, either directly or indirectly, either separately or simultaneously. Therefore it is recommended to the government to build good performance through the implementation of good governance, by paying attention to accountability and internal control in an integrated and sustainable manner.
The Impact of Knowledge Management Success Factors on Electronic Business in Jordanian Telecom Companies
Get PDFAbstract: The study aimed to identify the impact of knowledge management success factors represented (organizational culture, administrative leadership, organizational structure, information technology infrastructure, standards) on electronic business (electronic information, electronic communications, electronic work flow), and the study community included all employees in Jordanian telecom companies, where the three telecommunications companies (Umniah, Zain, Orange) agreed to participate in the study, and (240) questionnaires were distributed to employees in those companies, and (191) questionnaires were retrieved, of which (188) were valid questionnaires for analysis with an actual response amount of (78.3%), which is similar to the final study sample. The study used the descriptive analytical method, and assumed a positive impact of the factors of success of knowledge management on electronic business in Jordanian telecom companies. The results showed that there is an awareness of the factors of success of knowledge management among employees in Jordanian telecom companies, where the arithmetic averages for the organizational culture variables, information technology infrastructure and knowledge measures came within the level of high importance, and the variable of administrative leadership and the organizational structure variable came within the level of intermediate importance in the current study, as well all averages of e-business dimensions came within the high level of importance, as well as the overall e-business variable, in addition to that, the results indicated a positive impact of the factors of success of knowledge management on e-business in Jordanian telecom companies; as the variable of knowledge management success factors explained (65.7%) of the variance in e-business, and the results also indicated that the variable of information technology infrastructure was the most influencing electronic information, and the second ranked in the impact of organizational culture, while the variables of administrative leadership do not affect the organizational structure and measures of knowledge on electronic information, and the results also showed that the variable of the information technology infrastructure ranked first in the impact on electronic communications, followed by the effect of the variable of organizational culture, and then the organizational structure variable, while the administrative leadership and knowledge standards variables do not affect, finally it showed the results indicated that the variable of the IT infrastructure was the most influential in the electronic work flow, and came second in the organizational structure, and the organizational culture ranked third, and the fourth came the variable of administrative leadership, while the electronic work flow variable was not affected by knowledge measures. Based on the results, the study recommended the need to pay attention to the employees awareness of the importance of success factors Knowledge Management, given its impact on e-business, by maintaining the level of organizational culture, and constantly enhancing it, raising the level of awareness of managers and decision makers about the importance of knowledge management success factors and their impact on e-business, developing the capabilities of employees, and creating a special administrative unit, concerned with knowledge management and organization Its operations, in addition to adopting successful organizational structures that increase the level of knowledge, as well as the need to develop and promote electronic business in Jordanian telecom companies, by paying attention to the communication infrastructure, and providing modern electronic workflow systems, the study also recommended researchers to conduct other studies on management success factors Knowledge and e-business in other study societies and other organizational outputs
Enhancements of Special Economic Zone Authority to Globalize its Companies Supply Chain
No full textCompanies around the world are getting more and more aware of the importance of implementing supply chain strategies, which happens to put companies into the map of the world. In order to respond effectively and efficiently to customer needs, companies have to select their supply chain strategies wisely. One of the key supply chain strategies is the decision concerned with selecting sites and locations of facilities in which their operations are held. In many countries, Special Economic Zones (SEZs) were founded to host the operations of those facilities. SEZs have to attract companies by improving themselves to meet companies’ criteria. This study explores strategies that the Special Economic Zone Authority (ASEZA) implemented for the current companies to successfully sustain their position in the global market. Internal and external integration for these companies are the main focused criterion. A model to evaluate the opportunity for the internal and the external integrations in a specific SEZ is the main contribution of this paper, this model can be used by companies as one criterion of its criteria to select where it can locate its branches. As well, this model will promote ASEZA to attract new investors and companies to land their operations within its premises. Generally, the role of the SEZs to support the supply chain integration system. The model is tested on the Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority (ASEZA), the opportunities to improve ASEZA capabilities to enhance the supply chain integration are identified as a result of implementing this model
A Conceptual Framework for Reverse Logistics Performance and Innovation
Get PDFGreen Supply Chain Management has been receiving a lot of attention in recent times. Attention on Reverse Logistics (RL) area has also been steadily growing. Reverse Logistics involves reduce-reuse-recycle as well as redesign, remanufacture, etc. It is a closed loop of the Supply Chain for value creation. Carter and Ellram (1998) discuss that Reverse Logistics can result in savings for an organization. Daugherty, Richey, Genchev, and Chen (2005) analyze where the resources in Reverse Logistics could be committed to achieve good Reverse Logistics Performance. The Automotive after-market in India is also in its nascent stages and has a huge scope for growth. Thus, a study in this area is definitely warranted. This paper gives a Conceptual framework for the RL Performance and Innovation in Automotive after-market with an emerging economy backdrop. The authors of this paper find fewer papers in these areas and this paper aims to fill this gap
Impact of Green Logistics Activities on Circular Economy: Panel Data Evidence from ASEAN
Get PDFGreen logistic considers those actions which can minimize the ecological impact of logistics activities. The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of green logistics activities on the circular economy indicators of ASEAN. This study has considered four ASEAN members including Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, and Singapore, from 2000 to 2015 with yearly observations. For analyzing the relationship between selected factors of green logistics activities and circular economy, three panel models under the title of ordinary least square OLS, fixed effect and random effect was applied. The main findings of the study show that there is significant influence of Transportation and communication (TC) on recycling rate of selected economies under all three panel models. However, the factor of mining, manufacturing, and construction has shown their significant and positive impact on the recycling rate in ASEAN. Similarly, the effect of TC on specific waste streams is found to be significant and negative under all panel estimators. Further, the factor of MMC is significantly and positively influencing on contribution of recycled materials to raw material demands in selected regions. However, trade of recyclable raw materials has shown an adverse influence from TC under full sample of the study. The findings of the study would be of significant support to the policymakers and various stakeholders in ASEAN economies while exploring the relationship between green logistics activities and selected indicators of circular economy. To the best of author’s knowledge, there has been a dearth of research studies specifically with empirical findings, examining the association between green logistics and circular economy. Therefore, this research could be assumed as tentative addition to the literature of economics. However, present study has some limitations which could be addressed in future studies. First, study has considered limited number of logistic indicators for analyzing their impact on the circular economy. Second, application of some advanced panel models like GMM is missing which may provide some different findings in future research. Third, only four ASEAN members are selected from the entire population. It is suggested that future studies can also conduct a cross-sectional or time series analysis on a similar topic too
Supply Chain Strategy for World Price of Crude Palm Oil and Its Production on Palm Oil Marketing Margins in Indonesia: An Application of Pairwise Granger Causality
Get PDFAbstract- This study aims to examine the supply chain strategy in causal relationship between world CPO price causality, production and marketing margin price using the Granger causality approach in the period January 2006-December 2017. This research proves that: (i) The results of the bivariate causality test explain that Indonesian CPO production has a single causality direction with world CPO prices. (ii) The results of the impulse response function and variance decomposition explain that the shock of the marketing margin variable gives a fluctuating response to fluctuations in world CPO prices, but the response is always positively given by the shock marketing margin in response to changes experienced by the variable world CPO prices. The results of this study are efforts to increase the price of CPO in the country by encouraging the development of palm oil derivative industries in increasing derivatives of high economic value products
The Phenomenon of Women Entrepreneurship and its Contribution to the Supply Chain Promotion: A case of Indonesian Supply Chain Companies
Get PDFObjective of this study is to examine the role of women entrepreneurship practices in supply chain promotion. For this purpose, Indonesian supply chain companies were selected. It was observed that Indonesian supply chain companies are suffering due to ineffective supply chain activities. Due to supply chain issues, the performance of these companies is declining. Most of the previous studies highlighted supply chain among various organizations, however; literature ignore the role of women entrepreneurship practices to promote supply chain. For this purpose, data were collected from the employees of supply chain companies with the help of questionnaire survey. Data were analyzed with the help of Partial Least Square (PLS). Results of the study highlighted that women entrepreneurship practices have significant role to enhance supply chain practices among Indonesian supply chain companies. Moreover, women previous entrepreneurial experience and entrepreneurial passion for inventing has positive on supply chain promotion. Thus, this study has significant importance for Indonesian supply chain companies
A Simulation Approach for Performance Measures of Food Manufacturing Process
Get PDFIn Malaysia, Small and Medium-sized Enterprise (SME) of food manufacturing industry is the second highest contributor in manufacturing sector and plays an important role to the economic development and growth. Hence, monitoring process of the industry should be occupied comprehensively and appropriately even though it is categorized under small- scale organization. Shrimp paste production is one of the small-scale food production that is popular in Malaysia. In this study, a performance of shrimp paste production is measured by using simulation approach. A discrete event simulation model is developed to illustrate the processes in the production line which involved four major processes. From the model, it is estimated that the average process time taken to produce 2000 pieces of shrimp paste is 235.13 minutes while the average waiting time taken in the operation system is 89.21 minutes. The findings also show that the bottleneck of the production process is found to be at packaging process and some of the resources are not fully utilized
Tourism Supply Chain Management: Evidence form Tourism and Hospitality Industry of Indonesia
Get PDFThe contribution of the Indonesian tourism industry in gross-domestic product (GDP) is below than other developing countries. According to the statistics, hospitality and tourism industry of Indonesia has low contribution in GDP. Therefore, this study investigated various factors which may lead to increase in contribution of this industry by increasing tourism supply chain activities. Therefore, the current study is one of the attempts to examine the role of internal and external knowledge to expediate service innovation and tourism supply chain management in Indonesia. Population of the study is based on the hospitality companies which facilitates tourists. Respondents of the study was the employees of these hospitality companies. Total 400 questionnaires were used through area cluster sampling. Partial Least Square (PLS) was used to attain final results. It is found that internal knowledge and external knowledge are the major determinants of service quality in tourism and hospitality industry. Increase in service innovation, increases the tourism supply chain. Both the internal knowledge and external knowledge has positive effect on service innovation which has positive contribution to tourism supply chain
Withstanding the Effect of Industry 4.0: The Role of High Performance Work System and Management Philosophy
Get PDFCoping with challenges posed by the extant IR 4.0 demands that small businesses should provide ‘added-value’ services, and products, or high quality and innovative products and services which could be possible through strategic development of employees. Drawing upon the findings of the extant literature, HPWS which is aligned with befitting management philosophy would help achieve enduring and enhanced performance culminated in provision of innovative goods and services. To offer context-based empirical insights on this issue, this study investigated the moderating role of management philosophy in the HPWS-performance nexus. The present study employed cross-sectional research approach in which data were collected from a sample of 518 of SME managers in Nigeria. Partial Least Squares Method (PLS) algorithm and bootstrapping technique were used to test the study’s hypotheses. Using product indicator approach, moderating effect of management philosophy was estimated. The findings signified a positive effect of HPWS on SME performance, and management philosophy was found to interact negatively with HPWS in enhancing performance. This result portrays presence of mismatch between managers’ philosophies and HPWS. Overall, the findings of the present study accentuate that HPWS which is aligned with befitting management philosophy would help achieve enduring and enhanced performance culminated in provision of innovative goods and services, with which the challenges posed by IR 4.0 will be withstood. Lastly, implications, limitations and suggestions for future research are discusse