3,775 research outputs found
COMPETITIVE STRATEGIES AND PERFORMANCE OF SUPERMARKETS (Win Yin Htike, 2018)
No full textSupermarkets have become very competitive today and are facing challenges due to the changing lifestyles and the demanding nature of today consumers. Amid heightened competition, supermarket managers need to understand the impact of different competitive strategies in order to choose appropriate ones that lead to survival and prosperity of the supermarkets' performance. The purpose of the study is to identify the competitive strategies adopted by the supermarkets and to analyze the linkages between the competitive strategies and the performances of supermarkets at determining the mediating effects of firms' operational characteristics, viz location, capital, managerial skill and experience, network and supply chain on the link between the competitive strategies and performance of supermarkets in Yangon. Primary data are collected from (15) senior managers and (35) branch managers of supermarkets through in-depth personal interviews and a questionnaire survey regarding their compete practices and organization performance. Moreover, performance data are also collected from (481) employees and (512) customers from selected supermarkets in Yangon. This study applies Path Analysis in order to identify the direct and indirect effects of operational characteristics between competitive strategies and firm performance.
The study found that cost leadership strategy is practiced by ten supermarkets; differentiation strategy by three supermarkets and focus strategy by two supermarkets. The cost leadership strategy has significant negative effect but the differentiation strategy and the focus strategy have significant positive effect on supermarket's performance measuring in terms of firms' growth, employees' satisfaction and customers' satisfaction. Generally, operational characteristics have the mediating effects on firm performance when supermarkets practices differentiation strategy and focus strategy but is no mediating effect where practicing cost leadership strategy. More specifically, among operating characteristics, the location has shown no mediating effect while the capital, managerial skills and experiences, and network and supply chain have partially mediating effect on the link between competitive strategies and firm's performance in terms of firm's growth, employee satisfaction, and customer satisfaction. Thus, it can be concluded that differentiation and focus
strategies are currently appropriate as competitive strategies for improving the performance of supermarkets in Myanmar.
Even though most of the supermarkets are practiced the cost leadership strategy, this study found that this strategy has no impact on firm performance since the purchasing power of the most ordinary people in Yangon is insufficient to buy at the supermarkets regularly. Moreover, the supermarkets that apply cost leadership strategy have the weaknesses in terms of product varieties, availability, and quality but not in price competitiveness. These facts highlight that the supermarkets which pursued cost leadership strategy need to provide a variety of low cost affordable quality products for target customers by investing sufficient capital for the market coverage in terms of products, place and promotion. Therefore, it can be concluded that if supermarkets can offer the products and services with appropriate marketing mix in accordance with the characteristics of target market and thereby, able to fulfill to meet the requirements of customers, the cost leadership strategy may become effective one for supermarkets in Yangon. By doing so, the changes and progress can take place for the supermarkets in Yangon in the coming years
A Comparative Study of Anti-Corruption Efforts in Cambodia and Myanmar( Thein Htike Win, 2022)
No full textThis thesis investigates the anti-corruption efforts and situations of Myanmar and
Cambodia during the period of 2005 to 2020 using the secondary data. It is found that
petty corruptions are prevalent in the both countries. Based on the corruption perception
indicators of international organization, two countries are not very much difference in the
anti-corruption results but Myanmar left behind in the Index of Public Integrity and GCB
results on bribery. Thus, Myanmar should learn Asset Declaration System of Cambodia to
end up public sector corruption and call for the cooperation with Cambodia ACU by
signing MoU. Moreover, to end up the petty corruption in the public services, Myanmar
has to make more efforts to implement PFP mechanism in every public service offices so
as to get public feedback on the services delivery and try to end loop holes in the rules
and regulations of public service offices
Win-Win business ethics engagement and corruption reform methods
No full textNo abstractThere has been comparatively less work done on how to effectively engage with and reform unethical and corrupt behaviors in business world; behaviors that can be both legal and illegal. According to the author, however, the research that has been done is very encouraging. Effective business ethics methods can be very profitable and sustainable. Effective business ethics methods can be learned and taught. Further, effective business ethics methods can help cause and stimulate better and greater socioeconomic development. In this paper, the author first considers nine types of effective business ethics engagement and corruption reform methods. Second, he examines in some detail six win-win methods with real case examples. Third, theoretical foundations for win-win methods and why win-win ethical business practices and relationships are profitable and sustainable are considered. Fourth, he discusses strengths and limitations of win-win methods. For the author, win-win methods can help facilitate ethical and mutually prosperous association
Strategic Corporate Negotiations: A framework for Win-Win agreements
No full textExploring the concept of win-win agreements, this book analyses how they pose an important challenge for entrepreneurs, managers and advisors involved in complex negotiations among firms. Providing an overview and discussion of existing literature, the author further develops a theoretical framework for analysing corporate negotiations, and illustrates how this can be implemented in real-life situations. This book presents an empirical case study from the automotive industry and analyses the negotiation between Fiat Chrysler in 2009, offering practical strategies for those involved in corporate negotiations. Presenting how win-win agreements can improve competitive advantage, this book will be an invaluable read for practitioners and scholars alike.</p
Strategic Corporate Negotiations: A framework for Win-Win agreements
No full textExploring the concept of win-win agreements, this book analyses how they pose an important challenge for entrepreneurs, managers and advisors involved in complex negotiations among firms. Providing an overview and discussion of existing literature, the author further develops a theoretical framework for analysing corporate negotiations, and illustrates how this can be implemented in real-life situations. This book presents an empirical case study from the automotive industry and analyses the negotiation between Fiat Chrysler in 2009, offering practical strategies for those involved in corporate negotiations. Presenting how win-win agreements can improve competitive advantage, this book will be an invaluable read for practitioners and scholars alike.</p
Wildlife and agriculture
No full textPresented at Water for agriculture and wildlife and the environment: win-win opportunities: proceedings from the USCID wetlands seminar on June 27-29, 1996 in Bismarck, North Dakota
FairPay: Adaptively Win-Win Customer Relationships
No full textBusinesses recognize the need to become more customer focused, but struggle to see how. At the same time, our logic and business models for selling digital content and services are broken. Digital relationships enable services at low cost, but we still focus on discrete transactions at prices that consumers see as exploitive. This book explains how a revolutionary approach to pricing can solve these problems. It proposes a new architecture for cooperative service relationships that is personalized and continuously adaptive. FairPay operationalizes a new logic for conducting ongoing business relationships that adaptively seek win-win value propositions in which price reflects value. At a practical level, the author explains how this can be applied to transform a range of industries -- with motivations, and guidelines for implementation in stages -- to enhance loyalty, market share, and profits. At a conceptual level, he explores how novel processes for participative co-pricing can dynamically seek agreement on win-win value propositions -- to approach optimal price discrimination over a series of transactions. FairPay applies modern behavioral economics in choice architectures that enable deep relationship marketing. An online supplement is provided
The win odds: statistical inference and regression
No full textGeneralized pairwise comparisons and win statistics (i.e., win ratio, win odds and net benefit) are advantageous in analyzing and interpreting a composite of multiple outcomes in clinical trials. An important limitation of these statistics is their inability to adjust for covariates other than by stratified analysis. Because the win ratio does not account for ties, the win odds, a modification that includes ties, has attracted attention. We review and combine information on the win odds to articulate the statistical inferences for the win odds. We also show alternative variance estimators based on the exact permutation and bootstrap as well as statistical inference via the probabilistic index. Finally, we extend multiple-covariate regression probabilistic index models to the win odds with a univariate outcome. As an illustration we apply the regression models to the data in the CHARM trial.The author(s) reported there is no funding associated with the work featured in this article
He Can Win
No full textHe Can Win date: 1917-18 illustrator/author: Dan Smith agency: American Red Cross size: 68.6 x 47 cm poster number: 0011https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/wwI_posters_redcross/1000/thumbnail.jp
Edge contraction and cop-win critical graphs
No full textThe problem is to determine the number of ‘cops’ needed to capture a ‘robber’ where the game is played with perfect information, the different sides moving alternately. The cops capture the robber when one of them occupies the same vertex as the robber at any time in the game. A copwin graph is one in which one cop can always capture the robber. A graph is cop-win edge-critical with respect to edge contraction (CECC) when the original graph is not cop-win, but the contraction of any edge results in a cop-win graph. In this paper, classes of CECC graphs are determined, and k-regular CECC are characterized for k ≤ 4
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