Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management最新文献

{"title":"Developing a Flexible Form of Collaborative and Inter-Organizational Governance: The Small Farmer-Focused Governance Model in Lam San Commune (Vietnam).","authors":"Nguyen Trung Dung, Doris Schmied, Le Van Chinh","doi":"10.1007/s40171-022-00332-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40171-022-00332-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Over the past 40 years, agriculture has played a particularly important role in Vietnam's economic development and socio-economic stability. The sector has guaranteed food security, income and jobs for more than 50 percent of the rural population and contributed to overall poverty reduction. Moreover, it is the only sector with an export surplus in the whole economy. These achievements have not been easy because Vietnam's agriculture is small scale, still fairly backward, inefficient and hampered by the fact that \"Farmers think seasonally, enterprises think business, governments think legislature\" (Minister Le Minh Hoan, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, 2018). Since 2002, the Government has developed many important policies in agriculture to promote collaboration between the main stakeholders (government-enterprises-farmers-scientists) to overcome the situation of the fragmented linkages. In this context, CG (Collaborative Governance) and IOG (Inter-Organizational Governance) are considered keys to success. This paper points out the necessity of CG and IOG in agricultural production in Vietnam and presents the Small Farmer-Focused Governance (SFFG) model applied in Lam San commune, in the province of Dong Nai. This model-so-called \"farmers and enterprise under one roof\"-can work like a \"governance bubble\" (i.e., shrink and expand) and thus take advantage of the flexibility of IOG to improve the production and export of pepper or another cash crop.</p>","PeriodicalId":34933,"journal":{"name":"Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management","volume":"23 1","pages":"51-64"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9812346/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45249012","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Lean Entrepreneurship and SME Practice in a Post COVID-19 Pandemic Era: A Conceptual Discourse from Nigeria.","authors":"Daniel E Ufua, Olusola J Olujobi, Hammad Tahir, Mamdouh Abdulaziz Saleh Al-Faryan, Oluwatoyin A Matthew, Evans Osabuohien","doi":"10.1007/s40171-022-00304-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40171-022-00304-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study investigates lean principles among Nigerian entrepreneurs and SME managers in the operational process in the aftermath of COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria. It offers the panacea to the challenge of social-economic shocks and their adverse effects on SMEs' business activities in Nigeria. The study adopts a conceptual approach to investigate lean entrepreneurship practice by SMEs in Nigeria. It relies on data from extant literature, using a conceptual approach to examine the social-economic effects of COVID-19 pandemic and critical environmental factors on the lean entrepreneurship practice in Nigeria. Furthermore, the study explores the influence of lean practice among SMEs and entrepreneurs in Nigeria and suggests a broad model for lean entrepreneurial practice in post-COVID-19 pandemic Nigeria. Findings highlight the broad social-economic effects of COVID-19 pandemic and other challenges such as theft, host community pressure, weak legal system, and inadequate government policy support affect lean entrepreneurship practice. These factors constitute complex operational issues that would require the adoption of a more comprehensive approach to address. It also highlights crucial factors for post-COVID-19 pandemic SMEs' operational success in Nigeria due to deficits in infrastructure and regulatory efficiency for SMEs' operations to address the various challenges of business failures in Nigeria. The study suggests a lean SME and Entrepreneurial Practice model in the post-COVID-19 pandemic era. It emphasises the need to refocus the active interest of the lean entrepreneur on critical business sustainability. The study recommends a critical review of the internal operational process among practicing entrepreneurial businesses and a re-modification of public policies system that governs the operational functions of entrepreneurial practices for reasonable and resilient post-COVID-19 pandemic entrepreneurship practices that can support the SMEs and economic growth in Nigeria.</p>","PeriodicalId":34933,"journal":{"name":"Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management","volume":"23 3","pages":"331-344"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9084273/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9910264","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Mediating Impact of IT Capabilities on the Association between Dynamic Capabilities and Organizational Agility: The Case of the Jordanian IT Sector.","authors":"Abdulkareem Salameh Awwad,&nbsp;Omar Mohammed Ali Ababneh,&nbsp;Mahmoud Karasneh","doi":"10.1007/s40171-022-00303-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40171-022-00303-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study suggests a novel progression to the current research endeavor by investigating the influence of information technology capabilities on organizational agility. More specifically, this study aims to fill the gaps found in previous studies and contribute to the current state of knowledge of this domain by focusing on the mediating role that IT capabilities play between dynamic capabilities and organizational agility. Toward that end, 270 Jordanian professionals working in supply chain management and operational departments were approached. Data were collected via distrusting a structured questionnaire that includes items assessing dynamic capabilities, IT capabilities, and organizational agility. The results demonstrated that IT capabilities significantly and positively mediated the relationship between resource-based dynamic capability and organizational agility. The study has also discussed several theoretical along with managerial implications of the research.</p>","PeriodicalId":34933,"journal":{"name":"Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management","volume":"23 3","pages":"315-330"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9011373/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9922021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Characterizing Organizational Lifecycle through Strategic and Structural Flexibility: Insights from MSMEs in Mexico.","authors":"Adrianela Angeles, Adriana Perez-Encinas, Cristian E Villanueva","doi":"10.1007/s40171-022-00301-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40171-022-00301-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Today's lifespan of companies tends to be low in the so-called micro-, small-, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs). Organizational life cycle (OLC) theory indicates that organizational aging is related, but not determined, by the firm chronological age or its size. Therefore, a firm's aging should be analyzed by other factors such as flexibility. The literature considers flexibility as an essential capability, a source of competitive advantage, and an enabler of long-term growth for MSMEs. However, little attention in emerging economies has been paid to examine the nuances of this concept in relation to the OLC in this type of companies. Additionally, studies tend to analyze flexibility as a general term, ignoring that it is a polymorphic concept. That is why there is a need to research the different categories of flexibility. Drawing on a quantitative approach conducting a factor analysis, a two-step cluster, and decision tree analysis to interrogate data from 257 MSMEs in Mexico, this study provides evidence of different dimensions of strategic and structural flexibility that help to characterize and predict the growth, maturity, and declining stages of MSMEs. Our results show that mature firms present more strategic and structural flexible characteristics than those involved in growth or decline stages. The flexible factors that help classify and predict an MSME in the maturity stage include open communication, decentralized decision making, and formalization. We provide a model with these results to illuminate unaddressed issues regarding the broad term of flexibility and its relationship to OLC.</p>","PeriodicalId":34933,"journal":{"name":"Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management","volume":"23 2","pages":"271-290"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8936384/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10250734","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Goods and Services Tax (GST) Implementation in India: A SAP-LAP-Twitter Analytic Perspective.","authors":"Arun Kumar Deshmukh, Ashutosh Mohan, Ishi Mohan","doi":"10.1007/s40171-021-00297-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40171-021-00297-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In a federal structure, India's determination to much-needed fiscal reforms has been widely applauded at its face value when she relinquished her previous complex and inefficient tax regime to embrace the long-awaited Goods and Services Tax (GST). It has been a significant economic move post-independence and requires validation of facts after its introduction. The present study aims to present a general macroeconomic analysis of the extent to which the adoption of GST has improved existing tax administration and resultant general economic well-being of a democratic political economy like India in light of innovation implementation theoretical perspective. Further, the study tried to determine how the stakeholders perceived such big-bang reform even after the three years of its adoption. The study attempted to assess to what extent the adoption of GST has indeed influenced the economy in general and citizens and/or consumers in particular while using a case-based qualitative inquiry. The present research applied the situation-actor-process; learning-action-performance analysis framework for the case analysis. The facts reveal that India has observed a tremendous increase in tax base vis-à-vis revenue collection. Yet, some efforts are desired to improve the low tax to GDP ratio, skewed GST payers base, negative stakeholders' perception of GST (revealed through Twitter sentiment analysis), and the evil of tax evasion. The other merits realized by the economy are presented as benefits to the consumers, MSMEs, improved ease of doing business ranking, and foster make-in-India and <i>AatmanirbharBharat</i> move by the government.</p>","PeriodicalId":34933,"journal":{"name":"Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management","volume":"23 2","pages":"165-183"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8790948/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9907774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Mechanisms of Collective Resilience in a Crisis Context: The Case of The 'COVID-19' Crisis.","authors":"Bechir Mokline, Mohamed Anis Ben Abdallah","doi":"10.1007/s40171-021-00293-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40171-021-00293-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this research, we claim to join the efforts of practitioners and researchers to provide managerial responses to an unprecedented health crisis such as COVID-19. To do this, we study the concept of 'collective resilience' as a mechanism for responding to crisis in the Tunisian context. The aim of this research is to explain the impact of collective resilience processes on the ability of organizations to withstand crisis. We conducted sixteen semi-structured interviews with Tunisian companies that had experienced the COVID-19 crisis. Continuous analysis of these interviews was carried out with the Nvivo12 software. Our results showed a positive effect of collective resilience on the capacity of organizations to resist the COVID-19 crisis by developing protective factors. These are manifested by new intersubjective interactions (massive exchanges, shared representation, collective consciousness, collaboration, solidarity, mutual aid, etc.), generic interactions (actions and assembly rules not used before: less formalized rules and procedures, more flexible and decentralized structure, new organizational diagrams based on trust, accountability, etc.) and finally the improvisation and tinkering of the organization which made it possible to bring about a change affecting all levels of the organization: strategic and organizational.</p>","PeriodicalId":34933,"journal":{"name":"Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management","volume":"23 1","pages":"151-163"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8724648/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9905751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Identifying Cloud Computing Risks based on Firm’s Ambidexterity Performance using Fuzzy VIKOR Technique","authors":"M. Taghavifard, Setareh Majidian","doi":"10.1007/s40171-021-00292-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40171-021-00292-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34933,"journal":{"name":"Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management","volume":"23 1","pages":"113 - 133"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"52804604","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}

{"title":"Machine Learning-Based Predictive Modeling and Control of Lean Manufacturing in Automotive Parts Manufacturing Industry","authors":"Nitin S. Solke, Pritesh Shah, R. Aravind Sekhar, T. P. Singh","doi":"10.1007/s40171-021-00291-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40171-021-00291-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34933,"journal":{"name":"Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management","volume":"23 1","pages":"89 - 112"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48946367","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}

{"title":"The Relationship Between “Job Satisfaction” and “Job Performance”: A Meta-analysis","authors":"A. Katebi, Mohammad Hossain HajiZadeh, A. Bordbar, A. Salehi","doi":"10.1007/s40171-021-00280-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40171-021-00280-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34933,"journal":{"name":"Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management","volume":"23 1","pages":"21 - 42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40171-021-00280-y","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47892890","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}

{"title":"Comparing Competitive Priorities of Slow Fashion and Fast Fashion Operations of Large Retailers in an Emerging Economy","authors":"M. Sellitto, Domingos Rafael Ferla Valladares, E. Pastore, A. Alfieri","doi":"10.1007/s40171-021-00284-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40171-021-00284-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34933,"journal":{"name":"Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management","volume":"23 1","pages":"1 - 19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40171-021-00284-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47797658","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}