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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"competitiveness and sustainability"”.
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IT-enabled cultural retooling: Identifying value and routine discrepancies during enterprise systems pre-implementation
… these derive from cultural misconstructions and resistance when IT is introduced. Cultural retooling has been conceptualized as an effective method for overcoming cultural failings in organizations. To achieve competitiveness and sustainability in a challenging environment, cultural retooling …
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Implementing Lean Six Sigma to enhance operational efficiency and reduce waste in essential food storage SMES: a case study
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the essential food storage sector play a crucial role globally, especially in Latin America and Peru. These businesses are vital for ensuring the availability and distribution of necessities. However, they face challenges, including low operational …
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Industrial Energy Efficiency: Exploring Synergies with Industry 4.0 Technologies at Operational Level
… is crucial for reducing energy consumption and enhancing competitiveness and sustainability in industrial organizations. However, research gaps exist, concerning energy management and its impact at the shop floor level, integrating production resources and operational performance. Similarly, …
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Food webs: Realizing biological inspiration for sustainable industrial resource networks
… network to reduce cost, increase efficiency, and reduce environmental burdens. A recent approach is further developed that uses analogies with biological food webs to guide industry design. Studying ecological food webs shows that among the metrics in use, critical quantities of interest for …
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Feasibility study of fuel cell residential energy stations
… provisioning has historically satisfied demand by centralized generation and pervasive distribution through an extensive transmission and distribution network. Once demand increases beyond a fixed threshold, however, the capacity of the generation, transmission and distribution can become …
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Entrepreneurial Networking Framework for Malaysian Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
Malaysian Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) often fail to fully leverage the strategic value of a business networking, hindered by the lack of a comprehensive framework tailored to their needs. This study addresses this gap by proposing enrichment to entrepreneurial networking practices, building …
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Case for sustainability in strategy and operations : overcoming the challenges of product design in creating competitive advantages in circular supply chains
… a linear 'take-make-dispose' model of production and consumption - products are manufactured using non-renewable sources and raw materials, manufacturing wastes are discarded as unusable, product is sold through the supply chain often creating more disposal of wastes, the final product is used by …
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Digitalisierung der Unternehmensberatung – Analyse von Beratungsschulen und Digitalisierungspotenzialen
… consultants are the drivers of progress and the therefor necessary digitalisation of consultancy services, in order to ensure and develop the efficacy, profitability, competitiveness, and sustainability of companies and organisations. This dissertation analyses forms of management …
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Adsorption and membrane filtration for the separation and valorization of hemicellulose from organosolv beechwood hydrolyzates
The sustainable use and conversion of biomass for the production of energy, fuels, and chemicals can help to counteract the declining availability of fossil resources and increasing climate change. In biorefineries, woody raw materials are fractionated into their three main constituent’s cellulose, …
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A comprehensive analysis of digitalisation in the agri-food supply chain - with a special focus on food safety issues
… is the relationship between food safety issues and the opportunities offered by digitalisation. The relevance of the topic is of key importance, since food safety has been endangered recently (e.g., Kinder scandal), however digital solutions to empower it seem to be emerging. The thesis examines …
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Knowledge management practices in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia public sector organisations
… challenges, knowledge is increasingly accessed and shared across different functional departments and professionals. This knowledge interdependence creates new management challenges resulting from the risks and difficulties of knowledge transactions across boundaries. Providing access to key …
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Desarrollo de un modelo de gestión del conocimiento en la cadena de suministro de la industria agroalimentaria
… que es utilizado para el análisis de sistemas blandos y problemas poco estructurados, por parte del Instituto Tecnológico de Massachusetts (MIT). La investigación ha permitido caracterizar a la IAA. En el eslabón de la producción primaria y el eslabón del comercio se observó el predominio de …