Are We Competitive? A Firm Competitiveness Fit Scale

Q2 Business, Management and Accounting

Global Business and Organizational Excellence Pub Date : 2024-11-28 DOI:10.1002/joe.22284

Marco Arraya, João J. Ferreira

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Abstract

This study aims to develop and validate a comprehensive measure of firm competitiveness fit, a second-order composite construct consisting of seven strategic dimensions: vision, leadership, work passion, people-centric, customer-centric, infrastructural, and viability. These dimensions have been identified as critical factors that influence a firm's competitiveness; however, there is no widely accepted scale to evaluate them. Therefore, this study aims to provide a comprehensive scale that assesses a firm's competitiveness and links specific practices to improvements or decreases in competitiveness. This study used a mixed-method approach that included both qualitative and quantitative phases. The qualitative stage involved interviewing 10 C-suite executives to gain insights into the dimensions' impact on firm competitiveness and to generate items that reflect an understanding of the dimensions. The quantitative phase involved distributing a survey to 188 participants to measure the relationships between the strategic dimensions and firm competitiveness fit and to assess the scale's reliability, validity, and operability. To achieve this goal, PLS-SEM (partial least squares structural equation modeling) was used. The results reveal that firm competitiveness fit is a composite second-order construct, and the incorporation of the seven strategic dimensions into the model demonstrates its validity as a reliable predictor of firm competitiveness. This study has implications for theoretical and practical applications.

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我们有竞争力吗？企业竞争力适宜度量表

本研究旨在发展并验证企业竞争力契合度的综合测量，这是一个由七个战略维度组成的二阶复合结构：愿景、领导力、工作激情、以人为本、以客户为中心、基础设施和生存能力。这些维度已被确定为影响企业竞争力的关键因素；然而，没有一个被广泛接受的标准来评估它们。因此，本研究旨在提供一个全面的规模，以评估企业的竞争力，并将具体的做法与竞争力的提高或降低联系起来。本研究采用混合方法，包括定性和定量两个阶段。定性阶段包括采访10位c级高管，以深入了解这些维度对公司竞争力的影响，并生成反映对这些维度理解的项目。定量阶段包括对188名参与者进行调查，以衡量战略维度与企业竞争力契合度之间的关系，并评估量表的信度、效度和可操作性。为了实现这一目标，采用PLS-SEM（偏最小二乘结构方程建模）。结果表明，企业竞争力契合度是一个复合的二阶结构，将七个战略维度纳入模型证明了其作为企业竞争力的可靠预测因子的有效性。本研究具有理论和实际应用意义。

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Global Business and Organizational Excellence Business, Management and Accounting-Business and International Management

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期刊介绍： For leaders and managers in an increasingly globalized world, Global Business and Organizational Excellence (GBOE) offers first-hand case studies of best practices of people in organizations meeting varied challenges of competitiveness, as well as perspectives on strategies, techniques, and knowledge that help such people lead their organizations to excel. GBOE provides its readers with unique insights into how organizations are achieving competitive advantage through transformational leadership--at the top, and in various functions that make up the whole. The focus is always on the people -- how to coordinate, communicate among, organize, reward, teach, learn from, and inspire people who make the important things happen.