Pub Date : 2022-09-30DOI: 10.35745/ijbsi2022v02.03.0001
Guo Menghan, Z. Xiaokang
From the results of China's "13th Five-Year Plan". Scientific and technological innovation has achieved remarkable results, and the textile industry has achieved the development of the entire industrial chain. Therefore, this article analyzed the international competitiveness of China's textile industry by comparing China's textile industry with the countries related to the world's three major textile centers. Firstly, based on the niche theory and the Michael Porter Diamon model, an evaluation index system for the textile industry niche was constructed. For countries, related to the three major centers of the textile industry, analyzed the relative niche and comprehensive niche scores of each dimension from 2016 to 2019. The world textile industry was measured according to the niche theory. The Vulnerability Index was calculated from normalized data. The aim was to explore the competitiveness of the textile industry in various countries as well as the future development potential and trends. According to the research results, the textile industry competitiveness of the 10 countries was divided into three levels. The first level was China, the second level was the United States, and India and the remaining seven countries were at the third level. The results showed that as of 2019, the comprehensive competitiveness of my country's textile industry was far ahead of other countries, and development potential and trends were better than in other countries in the future. However, at the same time, to further improve the international competitiveness and comprehensive strength of the textile industry, there was also necessary to pay attention to the coordinated development of social and government support.
{"title":"Comparison of Competitiveness of the Textile Industry between China and the World’s Three Major Textile Centers","authors":"Guo Menghan, Z. Xiaokang","doi":"10.35745/ijbsi2022v02.03.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35745/ijbsi2022v02.03.0001","url":null,"abstract":"From the results of China's \"13th Five-Year Plan\". Scientific and technological innovation has achieved remarkable results, and the textile industry has achieved the development of the entire industrial chain. Therefore, this article analyzed the international competitiveness of China's textile industry by comparing China's textile industry with the countries related to the world's three major textile centers. Firstly, based on the niche theory and the Michael Porter Diamon model, an evaluation index system for the textile industry niche was constructed. For countries, related to the three major centers of the textile industry, analyzed the relative niche and comprehensive niche scores of each dimension from 2016 to 2019. The world textile industry was measured according to the niche theory. The Vulnerability Index was calculated from normalized data. The aim was to explore the competitiveness of the textile industry in various countries as well as the future development potential and trends. According to the research results, the textile industry competitiveness of the 10 countries was divided into three levels. The first level was China, the second level was the United States, and India and the remaining seven countries were at the third level. The results showed that as of 2019, the comprehensive competitiveness of my country's textile industry was far ahead of other countries, and development potential and trends were better than in other countries in the future. However, at the same time, to further improve the international competitiveness and comprehensive strength of the textile industry, there was also necessary to pay attention to the coordinated development of social and government support.","PeriodicalId":264983,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Business Studies and Innovation","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125978297","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-30DOI: 10.35745/ijbsi2022v02.03.0003
P. Tsou, M. Hwang, Dennis Bumsoo Kim, Hsin-Yao Hsu
Logistics plays a significant role in the economy with its main contribution to the gross domestic product (GDP) of many countries. In highly developed countries, logistics costs compared to their GDP range between 8 and 10%. As globalization of trade develops, the importance of improving logistics’ active efficiency is essential for any business enterprise to gain a competitive advantage. Many scholars have so far made great efforts to study logistics functionality, and a large number of relative literature on basic logistics activities of transportation, warehousing, and inventory have been published. Unfortunately, past studies on logistics operational activities are mostly categorized as single research themes of basic logistics activities. Few studies comprehensively considered basic and value-adding activities with entire logistics operational activities. Therefore, for typical multi-criterion decision-making (MCDM), the F-DEMATEL technique is adopted for evaluating the crucial performance indicators of time, cost, quality, service, and innovation to improve the reliability of expert evaluations under uncertain environments in this study. Also, the F-TOPSIS technology is used to calculate all alternatives to help decision-makers develop appropriate operational activities of logistics management. The study result identifies 13 important operational activities of logistics functionality. Besides, the data from a case study of the elite interview is used for validation. The F-DEMATEL is used to obtain the weights of the core criteria. The importance of critical weighted indicators from the F-DEMATEL calculation show “Service” > “Cost” > “Quality” > “Time” > “Innovation”. In addition, the F-TOPSIS is used to prioritize critical activities in logistics functionality. The ranking of the critical basic activities demonstrates that “Transportation/ Distribution” is the most critical logistic activity, followed by “Information” and “Pick and Pack”. Also, the ranking result of the critical value-adding activities shows that “Consignment Stock” is the most critical value-adding activity, followed by “Returns and Quality Control” and “Repair and Maintenance”. Therefore, the logistics managers give priority to the formulation of improvement management based on these ranks. The proposed suggestions of evaluating methods of F-DEMATEL and F-TOPSIS, important 13 crucial activities of logistics, evaluating indicators of logistics activity, and ranks of crucial activities in logistics functionality, thus, make up for a deficiency in previous research that lacks an empirical analysis of the crucial operational activities in logistics functionality.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-30DOI: 10.35745/ijbsi2022v02.02.0005
Ching-Huei Chen, Wang-Jyi Horng
At the beginning of 2021, the Covid-19 epidemic became a pandemic around the world. In 2022, Taiwan entered the post-epidemic era. Taiwanese people went to drugstores to buy many healthcare products that can improve physical strength and immunity. In this study, we select three distinctive products from the drugstore products that consumers like to buy to compile a marketing plan. The research methods used in this study include Taiwanese cosmeceutical product market analysis, best and next best submarket analysis, and market competitor analysis. This study result provides several marketing financial budget sheets and shows that the execution time of the plan is six months. In the analysis of income surplus, the profit rate of each planned cosmeceutical product is about 27−30%, which is in line with the company's desired revenue amount.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-30DOI: 10.35745/ijbsi2022v02.02.0006
Mengchen Ma, Xiaokang Zhao, Huali Shen
With the development of social Q&A communities, many communities were facing the dilemma of user loss and insufficient knowledge sharing. Gamification was a design paradigm that promoted user knowledge sharing, and its promotion mechanism was also worth studying. Taking Zhihu as an example, based on discussing the relationship between gamification and knowledge sharing, which included knowledge-seeking and knowledge-contribution, this paper further discusses the mediating role of self-determination in the relationship between them. The research used hierarchical regression as the research method. The results of this research demonstrated that the interaction of gamification traits (immersion, fulfillment, and socially relevant traits) has a significant positive effect on self-determination. All have significant positive effects on knowledge-seeking behavior and knowledge-contribution behavior. Self-determination has a significant positive impact on knowledge-seeking behavior and knowledge-contribution behavior. Self-determination was fully mediated between immersion-related gamification, social-related gamification, achievement-related gamification, and knowledge-seeking behavior. Self-determination was partially mediated between immersion-related gamification, social-related gamification, achievement-related gamification, and knowledge-contribution behavior. The research presented that was a new research model to explore the effect of gamification on knowledge sharing. In addition, there also demonstrated that improving the game level of the knowledge-sharing platform was an effective way to improve knowledge-seeking behavior and knowledge-contribution behavior.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-30DOI: 10.35745/ijbsi2022v02.02.0003
Chi-Hung Yeh
Consumer payment methods and factors affecting consumer choice of payment methods are analyzed in this study. Convenience, security, and incentives are major factors for consumers to select payment methods or schemes. The dichotomy of consumer payment methods or schemes is used for defining primary consumer payment methods or schemes and confined consumer payment schemes. For expanding uses and profits of the operator(s), consumer payment methods tend to and need to evolve into total utility payment schemes (TUPS), which leads to a drastically new consumer payment landscape. It also affects consumer businesses as well as consumer banking and financial services. Strategies of fast TUPS and swift expansion into Mainland-Chinese frequently would increase substantially the global consumer payment share of Mainland Chinese payment. Close cooperation between Mainland China’s UnionPay and Taiwan banks’ credit/debit cards with appropriate incentives to consumers shall be a strategy in terms of market share and profitability.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-30DOI: 10.35745/ijbsi2022v02.02.0002
Jia-yi Chen, Grant G. L. Yang
Home Depot and Lowe’s are two of the world’s largest home building materials retailers. We analyze whether the two are in a competitive relationship or the same dilemma under the impact of major events by using the obvious structural breakpoints and combining them with the event research method. An empirical study of the major events is conducted corresponding to the major events at the time node where the obvious structural breakpoints are located. Based on the revenue and profit data from 1996 to 2021, the two companies are compared for the changes in revenue and profits under the impact of the same major event. The results show that the major events affect the development of the entire home building materials retail industry and the company's operation. The internal impact prompts both parties to actively adjust their internal business to be competitive, and several events affect only individual companies. However, certain significant events have little impact on the company’s revenue.
{"title":"Relationship between Home Depot and Lowe’s Under Impact of Major Events","authors":"Jia-yi Chen, Grant G. L. Yang","doi":"10.35745/ijbsi2022v02.02.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35745/ijbsi2022v02.02.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Home Depot and Lowe’s are two of the world’s largest home building materials retailers. We analyze whether the two are in a competitive relationship or the same dilemma under the impact of major events by using the obvious structural breakpoints and combining them with the event research method. An empirical study of the major events is conducted corresponding to the major events at the time node where the obvious structural breakpoints are located. Based on the revenue and profit data from 1996 to 2021, the two companies are compared for the changes in revenue and profits under the impact of the same major event. The results show that the major events affect the development of the entire home building materials retail industry and the company's operation. The internal impact prompts both parties to actively adjust their internal business to be competitive, and several events affect only individual companies. However, certain significant events have little impact on the company’s revenue.","PeriodicalId":264983,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Business Studies and Innovation","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133197407","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-30DOI: 10.35745/ijbsi2022v02.02.0001
Alfateh Fegada, Cynthia Daoud
The study is carried out to explain the role of entrepreneurial marketing to attain a competitive edge in commercial banks in El Obeid, Sudan 2019. The study problem was represented in the main question ‘what is the impact of entrepreneurial marketing to attain a competitive edge?’ To answer the question, we identified the effect of applying entrepreneurial marketing dimensions to attain a competitive edge in the two main dimensions: cost reduction and aimed quality. For this study, we used the descriptive analytical approach and the case study method. The two main hypotheses of the study were, 1) there is a relationship between entrepreneurial marketing and a competitive edge (cost reduction), and 2) there is a relationship between entrepreneurial marketing and a competitive edge (aimed quality). A questionnaire survey was also carried out with 7 arbitrators. The reliability and validity of the questionnaire were tested with Cronbach's alpha which reached 71%. The study result from the methods and statistical analysis with SPSS shows that there is a relationship between entrepreneurial marketing and a competitive edge (cost reduction) and between entrepreneurial marketing and a competitive edge (aimed quality). Therefore, it is recommended that the bank departments pay more attention and research to address the deficiencies of cost reduction and aimed quality when applying innovative marketing dimensions. The result also supports the continuation of creating the appropriate environment for more practice of creative marketing that reduces the cost of their services.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-30DOI: 10.35745/ijbsi2022v02.02.0004
Shih-Shen Chen
In the information age, typically buyers bear costs when they change their shopping habits. Therefore, it is indispensable that manufacturers know these costs during transitioning technology and brand for success in the current information economy. Previous research about switching costs emphasized corporate behavioral tactics and corporate competitiveness in the market. However, in these models, customers do not indeed change the account of the business, being charged the same price, and the switching cost is higher enough to prevent conversion. In reality, customers’ brand changes. This research hypothesizes that commodity’s consumption utility with externality increase with an increase of disposable income and externality but decreases with increasing of reservation utility’s shadow price when concerning consumption’s switching cost and endogenizing costumers behavior. When a product announcement makes a consumer group’s preference for externalities greater than that of another consumer group, the externality of its brand announcement inevitably increases. However, to increase the externality, it is necessary to attract more users to join the purchase of the brand, which naturally increases the manufacturer’s request for the creation of forenotice and the switching cost also increases.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-30DOI: 10.35745/ijbsi2022v02.01.0006
Mohammad Safary Ahmadsaraei, Amir Abedini Koshksaray, Marzieh Soleimani, Zeinabalsadat Kazemi
The present study aims to develop a framework for sustainable supply chain risk management evaluation in the food packaging industry based on multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methods in the fuzzy environment. An integrated MCDM approach is proposed based on Delphi, CRiteria Importance Through Intercriteria Correlation (CRITIC), and COmplex PRoportional ASsessment (COPRAS) methods. Through reviewing the research literature, related criteria were identified and selected based on experts' opinions and the fuzzy Delphi method. The fuzzy CRITIC method was used to determine the weights of the criteria. Finally, based on weighted indices and the fuzzy COPRAS method, food packaging suppliers were ranked according to their ability to manage the risks of sustainable supply chain activities. The results show that operational risks are essential in evaluating suppliers' risks in sustainable supply chain activities in the food packaging industry. Also, the three sub-criteria with the highest weights are defined as product quality risk, machines and equipment risks, and restrictions on green processes.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-30DOI: 10.35745/ijbsi2022v02.01.0004
J. You
The development of the subway is closely related to the urban economy in China, and it is also a sign of the development of urban modernization. With sustainable transportation development becoming a global issue, the construction of medium-sized urban subways is limited by the economic volume and is often in the trade-off between construction speed and financial burden. This paper takes the subway cities of Fujian Province -Fuzhou and Xiamen as the research object and analyzes the relative positions of the metros of the two metropolitan areas in 38 metro cities in China. The result of linear regression analysis shows that Fuzhou's progress is slightly conservative, while Xiamen is slightly ahead. There is still space for improvement in the carrying intensity of the subways in the two cities. Comparing the relationship between subway construction and economic growth in medium-sized cities, there is still obvious room for development in subway construction in the two cities. During the research process, actual investigations were conducted to formulate corresponding improvement strategies and suggestions for the operation problems of the two cities for reference by the urban management departments.
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