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The Relationship between Export Performance and Competitive Advantage: A Study on Turkiye Companies
Get PDFThe constant evolution of technology and the new form of competition today challenge businesses and demonstrate the need to prioritize sustained gains over temporary successes. The experience and knowledge gained by businesses because of this focus can be broadly defined as a competitive advantage if they differentiate themselves from their competitors and contribute to a more successful export performance. Shifts in approaching international markets offer businesses the opportunity to develop their own competitive strategies. The most important of these strategies is to achieve export performance by focusing on competitive advantage capabilities. By achieving competitive advantage through resource-based capabilities, businesses can create greater value and enhance their export performance in the long term. In this context, this study encompasses an empirical assessment that aims to determine the effects of competitive advantage on achieving export performance in businesses operating in Türkiye. The study was conducted with 404 surveys collected from upper-middle-level managers and export department managers working in export businesses, and the results were evaluated. Correlation and descriptive modeling methods were used to evaluate the findings. According to the findings, there is a statistically significant and positive relationship between competitive advantage and export performance, a positive relationship between financial advantage and export performance, and a positive relationship between strategic advantage and export performance
Export performance, organizational structure, strategic innovation orientation, sustainable competitive advantage relationship: A research on furniture exporting enterprises
Get PDFDış Ticaret Enstitüsü, Uluslararası Ticaret Bilim DalıHızlı bir şekilde gelişen rekabet ortamında ihracat, rekabet üstünlüğü sağlama ve ekonomik büyüme için önemli bir faktör olarak kabul edilmektedir. Uluslararası pazarlarda sınırların önemini yitirmesi, amansız rekabet, ürün yaşam döngülerinin kısalması ve teknolojik yeniliklerin çarpıcı hızı gibi dinamik kavramlar etrafında şekillenen işletmelerin elinde bulundurdukları kaynaklar, stratejik inovasyon yönelimleri ve geliştirdikleri örgüt yapıları ile yüksek ihracat performansı göstermeleri gerekmektedir. Bu çalışmada Türkiye'de mobilya ihracatı yapan işletmelerin örgüt yapısı, ihracat performansı, stratejik inovasyon yönelimi ve sürdürülebilir rekabet üstünlüğü arasındaki ilişkiler incelenmekte ve bu değişkenlerin ihracat performansını ne şekilde etkilediği araştırılmaktadır. Araştırma Türkiye'de mobilya ihracatı yapan işletmelerin üst-orta düzey yöneticileri üzerinde gerçekleşmiştir. Araştırma kapsamında kolayda örnekleme yöntemi kullanılmıştır. Veri toplama aracı olarak yüz yüze anket ve çevrimiçi anket formu oluşturulmuştur. Araştırmaya 534 yönetici anket doldurup katılım göstermiştir. Araştırmanın verileri %95 güven düzeyinde SPSS 25 ve LISREL 8.7 programlar yardımı ile analiz edilmiştir. Araştırma sonucuna göre mobilya ihracatı yapan işletmelerde örgüt yapısı, ihracat performansı ve sürdürülebilir rekabet üstünlüğünün ihracat performansını etkilediği görülmüş bununla birlikte örgüt yapısı ve ihracat performansı ilişkisinde sürdürülebilir rekabet üstünlüğü ve stratejik inovasyon yöneliminin kısmi aracılık etkisi olduğu sonucuna varılmıştır. Bu bağlamda mobilya ihracatı yapan işletmelerin daha iyi bir ihracat performansı elde etmeleri için sürdürülebilir rekabet üstünlüğü ve stratejik inovasyon yönelimi yeteneklerini daha fazla geliştirmeleri gerekmektedir.In a rapidly developing competitive environment are exporting considered to be an important factor for achieving competitive advantage and economic growth. Businesses shaped around dynamic concepts such as the loss of importance of borders in international markets, relentless competition, shortening of product life cycles and the striking speed of technological innovations must demonstrate high export performance with the resources they have, strategic innovation orientations and organizational structures they have developed. In this study, the relationships between the organizational structure, export performance, strategic innovation orientation and sustainable competitive advantage of furniture exporting companies in Turkey are examined and how these variables affect export performance is investigated. The research was conducted on upper-middle level managers of companies exporting furniture in Turkey. Convenience sampling method was used within the scope of the research. A face-to-face survey and an online survey form were created as data collection tools. 534 managers completed the survey and participated in the research. The data of the study was analyzed with SPSS 25 and LISREL 8.7 programs at a 95% confidence level. According to the results of the research, it has been that organizational structure, export performance and sustainable competitive advantage affect export performance in furniture exporting businesses, and it has been concluded that sustainable competitive advantage and strategic innovation orientation have a partial mediating effect in the relationship between organizational structure and export performance. In this context, furniture exporting businesses need to further develop their sustainable competitive advantage and strategic innovation orientation capabilities in order to achieve a better export performance
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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