Sustainable competitive advantage (sca) analysis of furniture manufacturers in malaysia: normalized scaled critical factor index (NSCFI) approach

Tasmin, Rosmaini and Takala, Josu and Abu Bakr, Aliyu Alhaji and Shylina, Daryna and Nizialek, Izabela and Che Rusuli, M.S. (2016) Sustainable competitive advantage (sca) analysis of furniture manufacturers in malaysia: normalized scaled critical factor index (NSCFI) approach. Management and Production Engineering Review, 7 (2). pp. 73-85. ISSN 20808208

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Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to investigate Malaysian furniture industry via Sustainable competitive advantages (SCA) approach. In this case study, sense and respond method and Normalized Scaled Critical Factor Index (NSCFI) are used to specify the distribution of companies’ resources for different criteria and detect the attributes which are critical based on expectation and experience of companies’ employs. Moreover, this study evaluates Malaysian furniture business strategy according to manufacturing strategy in terms of an-alyzer, prospector and defender. Finally, SCA risk levels are presented to show how much company’s resource allocations support their business strategy. This case study involved four furniture manufacturing companies, in the southern part of Peninsular Malaysia to provide the overall view of their strategies in the perspective of knowledge & technology management, processes & work flows, organizational, and informa-tion systems. Hence, the findings of this study presented the preliminary results from these furniture companies in Malaysia, which are involved in sustainable competitive advantage (SCA) studies in terms of expectation and experience, NSCFI, operational strategy triangle of prospector (P), defender (D), and analyzer (A). The result shows that almost all fur-niture companies are categorized into the Analyzer type strategy and planning to remain being Analyzer in future to come.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	sustainable competitive advantage (SCA) model; SCA risk level; critical factor indexes (CFIs) method; operation strategy index.
Subjects:	T Technology > TS Manufactures > TS155-194 Production management. Operations management
Divisions:	Faculty of Technology Management and Business > Department of Production and Operation Management
Depositing User:	Mrs. Mashairani Ismail
Date Deposited:	22 Nov 2021 06:29
Last Modified:	22 Nov 2021 06:29
URI:	http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/id/eprint/3892

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