{"title":"Strategy, Ownership, and Performance of Firms in India: A Study of Manufacturing and Service Industries in India","authors":"Rahul Gupta Choudhury","doi":"10.30564/jsbe.v7i1.5879","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30564/jsbe.v7i1.5879","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose: There is considerable interest among academicians as well as practitioners in strategic differences between foreign-owned firms and domestic businesses. Linked with this is the question of whether there is a relationship between strategy and performance. This paper primarily concentrates on the differences in strategy pursued by foreign-owned firms and domestic firms. Methodology: A questionnaire was constructed. It was administered to senior level managers of reputable firms. The comprehensive list of managers was obtained from various databases including that of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). Responses to the questionnaire were received in two phases. The questionnaire was sent again after a fortnight of sending it the first time. None of the respondents asked for any clarification during their responses to the questionnaire. Findings: Results of analysis of the responses obtained clearly showed the differences in strategy between the two sets of firms. In the overall perspective, foreign-owned firms are much more holistic in their approach, whereas the domestic firms are quite narrow in their outlook—the domestic firms primarily concentrate on resources and how to add customers in order to survive and grow. The concept of investing in R & D, which is a prime parameter of strategy for foreign-owned firms, is completely absent in the case of domestic firms. As a result, factors affecting performance are far more widespread for foreign-owned firms than it is for domestic firms. Originality: While the comparison has been made between FOB and DOB, the differences in strategy have never been investigated before.","PeriodicalId":476708,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sustainable Business and Economics","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140243020","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":"Human Capital Formation and Territorial Governance at the Heart of Building a Skill's Local Economy: The Exemplarity of Corsica","authors":"Christophe Storai","doi":"10.30564/jsbe.v7i1.6181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30564/jsbe.v7i1.6181","url":null,"abstract":"In Corsica, the island economy is characterized by the absence of large multinational groups that direct and shape the global economy. Nor is there any mention of the existence of medium-sized enterprises, which in many other regions, like the Third Italy, constitute the spearhead of a dynamic economy. The Corsican economic fabric consists mainly of very small businesses, small farmers and producers, artisans, and traders. Given the hypertrophy of the public sector, private companies seem to be the only option likely to trigger a dynamic of territorial development. The latter necessarily involves the development of strategies for the formation of human capital and a technological research process whose objective is to increase the level of skills, responding to the immanent needs of the island territory. In this perspective, the mode of territorial governance prefigures a model of economic development to be favored.","PeriodicalId":476708,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sustainable Business and Economics","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140430881","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":"How Corporate Social Responsibility Impacts Employee Identification, Psychological Benefit, and Customer Orientation in Hospitality Industry?","authors":"Rameesha Abbas, Ahsan Siddiqui, Kashif Saleem","doi":"10.30564/jsbe.v6i4.5778","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30564/jsbe.v6i4.5778","url":null,"abstract":"The literature supports the notation that corporate social responsibility (CSR) plays a vital role in engaging consumers and establishing strong relationships with the organizations. However, CSR needs to be comprehensively studied as internal marketing to motivate employees to improve customer services by fulfilling their needs. Accordingly, the current study determines the impact of CSR congruence and efficacy on employee-customer identification, psychological benefit, and customer orientation in the hospitality industry of Pakistan. The data from 276 frontline employees were collected using a purposive sampling technique through self-administered questionnaires and structural equation modeling was used to test the research hypotheses. The results found that perceived CSR congruence has a stronger impact on employee-customer identification, while CSR efficacy has a relatively stronger relationship with psychological job benefits and customer orientation. This study provides a significant contribution to the extant literature on using CSR as an internal marketing strategy to improve the frontline employees’ ability to satisfy external stakeholders, i.e., customers.","PeriodicalId":476708,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sustainable Business and Economics","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135976669","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 Impact of Leadership on the Growth of ICT Companies","authors":"Mitra Madanchian, Hamed Taherdoost","doi":"10.30564/jsbe.v6i4.5874","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30564/jsbe.v6i4.5874","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, one of the major purposes of any company is to survive in the competitive business markets. This purpose would be achievable through improving and developing growth in most cases. Prior studies suggest that leadership is a vitally important factor in achieving growth in any company. Some researchers studied leadership topics as one of the significant motivations for developing and improving the growth of a company and agreed that understanding the role of leadership and its effect on the growth of the company is influential. In all countries, Information Communication Technology (ICT) companies are recognized as significant growth drivers by leaving considerable impacts on that. According to the literature, growth is a determining factor for the productivity of any company. Based on the literature of the ICTs, weak and insufficient leadership skills are considered as the main factors that cause failure in achieving the planned growth and development of ICT. Consequently, the goal of this study is to clarify how leadership affects the development of ICT enterprises.","PeriodicalId":476708,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sustainable Business and Economics","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136374897","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}