Measuring cycle time of the global procurement process
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While the reduction of cycle time in organizational processes is directly associated with improved performance, quality, and customer satisfaction, limited research has been devoted to developing a valid measure of the construct. To enhance cycle time theory and the practical implementation of cycle time reduction in procurement processes, a unidimensional cycle time (CT) scale is developed. The scale is based on a national purification sample and an international reliability and validity sample using the strategic business unit as the level of analysis. The final CT scale exhibits sufficient reliability and validity based on common standards in the marketing literature. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)
Publication Name: Industrial Marketing Management
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0019-8501
Year: 1997
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Innovativeness and capacity to innovate in a complexity of firm-level relationships: A response to Woodside (2004)
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Professor Arch Woodside's contribution on conceptual issues related to innovation process from idea to generation to implementation and approach towards advancing theory development and testing is a significant achievement in the field of Industrial Management. His views on Hult and others paper on how innovativeness enhances the firm's performance are discussed.
Publication Name: Industrial Marketing Management
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0019-8501
Year: 2005
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Innovativeness: Its antecedents and impact on business performance
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Hypotheses is developed that propose market orientation, entrepreneurial orientation, and learning orientation as key antecedents to innovativeness, as well as a direct relationship between innovativeness and business performance. A model is devised and tested that examined these relationships in general and in the context of varying market turbulence.
Publication Name: Industrial Marketing Management
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0019-8501
Year: 2004
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