Strategies de Co-Opetition et Performance a l’export : Cas Des PME Marocaines Exportatrices

Les alliances stratégiques sont caractérisées par la simultanéité de la coopération et de la concurrence. Ce phénomène a été popularisé sous la notion de co-opétition. Le présent article s’intéresse à l’étude de l’impact des stratégies de co-opétition sur la performance export des PME. Les données collectées par questionnaire auprès d’un échantillon de 150 PME marocaines exportatrices ont fait l’objet d’une analyse par les équations structurelles selon l’approche PLS. Les résultats montrent que la confiance intervient comme modérateur de la relation de coopération entre concurrents. Ces derniers développent leur comportement concurrentiel pour atteindre leurs objectifs à l’export d’autant plus que la coopération existe et un climat de confiance s’instaure. Strategic alliances are characterized by the simultaneity of cooperation and competition. This phenomenon was popularized under the notion of coopetition. This article focuses on the study of the impact of co-opetition strategies on the export performance of SMEs. The data collected by questionnaire from a sample of 150 Moroccan exporting SMEs were analyzed by structural equations according to the PLS approach. The results show that trust acts as a moderator of the cooperative relationship between competitors. The latter develop their competitive behavior to achieve their export objectives, especially as there is cooperation and a climate of trust is established

Towards a Connection of Universities, Regions and Private Sector Enterprises to Achieve Regional Development: A Literature Review.

Les Universités ont potentiellement un rôle central à jouer dans le développement social et économique de leurs régions. Ils sont un «atout» essentiel de la région; encore plus dans les régions moins favorisées où le secteur privé peut être faible ou relativement petit, avec de faibles niveaux d'activité de recherche et développement. Une mobilisation réussie des ressources de l'université peut avoir un effet positif disproportionné sur leurs économies régionales et la réalisation de stratégies régionales globales.Bien que cet article se concentre sur  la connexion que la région peut «obtenir» de ses universités, il faut reconnaître qu’il s’agit d’un processus à double sens et que l’université profite également de sa présence dans la région. Les universités devraient apprécier et maximiser le potentiel de l’opportunité que leur région présente, notamment en tant que «laboratoire vivant» pour leurs recherches au profit des entreprises du secteur privé.Ainsi, cet article traite le renforcement de  l'innovation régionale grâce aux  activités de recherche; et  Processus et mécanismes permettant aux universités, à la région et au secteur privé de travailler ensemble et parvenir par conséquent à une connexion à caractère « Gagnant –Gagnant »  qui a  des retombées bénéfiques sur l’attractivité de la Région en terme de  la rétention de talent  et  de développement du secteur privé de la même région en faveur de la  population de la même région

LE RESEAUTAGE : UN DETERMINANT DE L’INTERNATIONALISATION DES PME ET DE LEUR PERFORMANCE A L’EXPORT

Ce papier a pour ambition d’apporter une réflexion théorique quant à l’importance du réseautage dans le processus d’internationalisation des PME et leur performance à l’export. Partant d’une approche par les réseaux, nous recommandons que les politiques publiques soient inscrites dans une logique d’encouragement des PME à intégrer des réseaux nationaux ou internationaux. Les relations établies dans le cadre d’un réseau serviront à la PME exportatrice comme moyen d’accès aux ressources non disponibles en interne pour réussir leur processus d’internationalisation et performer sur les marchés d’exportation

YOUTH EMPLOYABILITY INTO THE MOROCCAN LABOR MARKET: SOFT SKILLS A DETERMINING FACTOR

The employability of young people is becoming a complex subject with a strong social and economic impact. The lack of job opportunities has become a major problem that has worsened in recent years due to the economic and financial crisis and also due to the subsequent deterioration of the labor market in general. Thus, Morocco, like several other countries in the North African region, is facing major economic and social challenges in the short and long term due to the increase in its active population due to the increase in the number of graduates of higher education on the one hand, and the dynamism of its labor market on the other. Through this contribution, we plan to conduct a discussion of the opportunities and challenges presented by these two phenomena, while emphasizing the importance of soft skills in the professional integration of young graduates, and also, by presenting the main most important soft skills to ensure better employability

The spare part inventory management system (SPIMS) for the profound heritage Sdn Bhd: a case study on the EOQ technique

The inventory management is an important part of supply chain management, which protects the schedule of production or maintenance towards any type of disturbance. This research emphasized on the development of the Spare Part Inventory Management System (SPIMS) for the Profound Heritage Sdn Bhd (PHSB), which is currently adopting the manual Kadex method. This automatic software used the Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) in the periodic review environment to control the inventory and the software was written using the Microsoft Visual Studio 2012. Therefore, this research will not only helps the PHSB but also increased literature on the actual implementation of the EOQ technique in the periodic review environment. This newly developed SPIMS have the ability to keep the spare parts transaction records, calculate the EOQ for each part and remind the user to purchase more spare parts at its dedicated “When to Order” date. The developed SPIMS performance was then evaluated by comparing it to the current Kadex or manual method. The method, which produced the lowest average inventories, is considered as the best method. Comparison across the overall average inventory indicated that the EOQ with zero opening balance (which represented a system that start with zero opening inventories) performs better than the Kadex method. However, the Kadex method is found to perform better than the EOQ when current opening balance is considered. The deterioration in the EOQ performance, when current opening balance is considered, is due to the fact that more data and longer time for observation is required before the EOQ reached its steady state. However, it is expected that the result similar to the EOQ with zero opening balance will be observed when the EOQ (with opening balance) reached it steady state. In addition, the EOQ also produces some shortages on the stock, which is nonexistent in the Kadex method. This problem is caused by the EOQ inability in detecting any shortages as the inventory will only be checked on a specific time interval called the “when to order” date. Due to this, an improvement on the SPIMS is needed. Rather than reviewing the inventories periodically during the “when to order” date, it is suggested that the SPIMS should adopt the continuous review/monitoring environment to optimize its performance

Vortex profile analysis under different diffuser size for inlet channel of gravitational water vortex power plant

Hydropower is a renewable technology to store the amount of electricity which is the least expensive. Gravitational Water Vortex Power Plant is an ultra-low head micro hydropower system working ranging from 0.7 m to 2m without having the needs of a large reservoir and installation area. Several researches have been conducted on its basin configuration, orifice diameter, blade configuration, the geometry of the basin shape but not onto the addition of the diffuser at the inlet channel. The function of the diffuser is to direct the water into the basin allowing the water vortex to travel towards the tangential direction where this phenomenon will increase the rate of speed flow through the turbine. The simulation results showed that the addition of the diffuser has significantly increased the tangential velocity and the kinetic energy of the vortices. The increase in the velocity of the flow increased the height of the vortex which also led to the increase in the strength of the vortex and affects the vortex uniformity

A preliminary study of sound absorption using multi-layer coconut coir fibers

Acoustic treatment using absorbing materials are widely used to reduce reverberation properties of closed spaces and to increase the transmission loss properties of multi-layer sound absorption panels. Natural fibers such as coconut coir fiber have high potential to be used as acoustic materials. As the natural fibers are agriculture waste, manufacturing natural product is therefore an economic and interesting option. This paper discusses the sound absorption using multi-layer coconut fiber as absorbing material component. The effect of micro-perforated plate and air-spaces layers towards the sound absorption of the multi-layer construction was also investigated in this paper. Acoustic absorption coefficient is the main parameter to be estimated in this research. Computer simulation using WinFLAGTM program was done to calculate the acoustic absorption coefficients. Simulation indicated that multi-layer coconut coir fibers and air-spaces could increase the acoustic absorption coefficient. All simulation results obtained are based on diffused sound incidence situation

Performance of translucent optical networks under dynamic traffic and uncertain physical-layer information

This paper investigates the performance of translucent Optical Transport Networks (OTNs) under different traffic and knowledge conditions, varying from perfect knowledge to drifts and uncertainties in the physical-layer parameters. Our focus is on the regular operation of a translucent OTN, i.e., after the dimensioning and regenerator placement phase. Our contributions can be summarized as follows. Based on the computation of the Personick’s Q factor, we introduce a new methodology for the assessment of the optical signal quality along a path, and show its application on a realistic example. We analyze the performance of both deterministic and predictive RWA techniques integrating this signal quality factor Q in the lightpath computation process. Our results confirm the effectiveness of predictive techniques to deal with the typical drifts and uncertainties in the physical-layer parameters, in contrast to the superior efficacy of deterministic approaches in case of perfect knowledge. Conversely to most previous works, where all wavelengths are assumed to have the same characteristics, we examine the case when the network is not perfectly compensated, so the Maximum Transmission Distance (MTD) of the different wavelength channels may vary. We show that blocking might increase dramatically when the MTD of the different wavelength channels is overlooked.Postprint (published version

Absorption coefficient of acoustic coir fibre panel and effects of varying percentage of perforated plates

The effects of perforated plates with different percentage of perforation affecting the sound absorption coefficient of coir fibre acoustic panels were investigated. Two types of perforated plates of 6.93 and 19.24% perforation were combined with the similar coir fibre layer. Acoustic tests for measuring the sound absorption were conducted in the reverberation room according to the ISO 354:2003 standard. The based coir fibre panel showed to possess good sound absorption characteristics from intermediate to high frequency range (800-2000 Hz). Perforated plates (6.93 and 19.24%) with coir fibre panel were found to achieve maximum sound absorption coefficients of 0.77 and 0.63 at 2000 Hz, respectively. As frequency increased to 4000 Hz, the sound absorption coefficient for the higher percentage perforation produced a higher sound absorption coefficient value