51 research outputs found
Strategies de Co-Opetition et Performance a lâexport : Cas Des PME Marocaines Exportatrices
Les alliances stratĂ©giques sont caractĂ©risĂ©es par la simultanĂ©itĂ© de la coopĂ©ration et de la concurrence. Ce phĂ©nomĂšne a Ă©tĂ© popularisĂ© sous la notion de co-opĂ©tition. Le prĂ©sent article sâintĂ©resse Ă lâĂ©tude de lâimpact des stratĂ©gies de co-opĂ©tition sur la performance export des PME. Les donnĂ©es collectĂ©es par questionnaire auprĂšs dâun Ă©chantillon de 150 PME marocaines exportatrices ont fait lâobjet dâune analyse par les Ă©quations structurelles selon lâapproche PLS. Les rĂ©sultats montrent que la confiance intervient comme modĂ©rateur de la relation de coopĂ©ration entre concurrents. Ces derniers dĂ©veloppent leur comportement concurrentiel pour atteindre leurs objectifs Ă lâexport dâautant plus que la coopĂ©ration existe et un climat de confiance sâinstaure.
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 UniversitĂ©s ont potentiellement un rĂŽle central Ă jouer dans le dĂ©veloppement social et Ă©conomique de leurs rĂ©gions. Ils sont un «atout» essentiel de la rĂ©gion; encore plus dans les rĂ©gions moins favorisĂ©es oĂč le secteur privĂ© peut ĂȘtre faible ou relativement petit, avec de faibles niveaux d'activitĂ© de recherche et dĂ©veloppement. Une mobilisation rĂ©ussie des ressources de l'universitĂ© peut avoir un effet positif disproportionnĂ© sur leurs Ă©conomies rĂ©gionales et la rĂ©alisation de stratĂ©gies rĂ©gionales globales.Bien que cet article se concentre sur la connexion que la rĂ©gion peut «obtenir» de ses universitĂ©s, il faut reconnaĂźtre quâil sâagit dâun processus Ă double sens et que lâuniversitĂ© profite Ă©galement de sa prĂ©sence dans la rĂ©gion. Les universitĂ©s devraient apprĂ©cier et maximiser le potentiel de lâopportunitĂ© que leur rĂ©gion prĂ©sente, notamment en tant que «laboratoire vivant» pour leurs recherches au profit des entreprises du secteur privĂ©.Ainsi, cet article traite le renforcement de l'innovation rĂ©gionale grĂące aux activitĂ©s de recherche; et Processus et mĂ©canismes permettant aux universitĂ©s, Ă la rĂ©gion et au secteur privĂ© de travailler ensemble et parvenir par consĂ©quent Ă une connexion Ă caractĂšre « Gagnant âGagnant » qui a des retombĂ©es bĂ©nĂ©fiques sur lâattractivitĂ© de la RĂ©gion en terme de la rĂ©tention de talent et de dĂ©veloppement du secteur privĂ© de la mĂȘme rĂ©gion en faveur de la population de la mĂȘme rĂ©gion
LE RESEAUTAGE : UN DETERMINANT DE LâINTERNATIONALISATION DES PME ET DE LEUR PERFORMANCE A LâEXPORT
Ce papier a pour ambition dâapporter une rĂ©flexion thĂ©orique quant Ă lâimportance du rĂ©seautage dans le processus dâinternationalisation des PME et leur performance Ă lâexport. Partant dâune approche par les rĂ©seaux, nous recommandons que les politiques publiques soient inscrites dans une logique dâencouragement des PME Ă intĂ©grer des rĂ©seaux nationaux ou internationaux. Les relations Ă©tablies dans le cadre dâun rĂ©seau serviront Ă la PME exportatrice comme moyen dâaccĂšs aux ressources non disponibles en interne pour rĂ©ussir leur processus dâinternationalisation et performer sur les marchĂ©s dâexportation
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 âWhen to Orderâ 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 âwhen to orderâ date. Due to this, an improvement on the SPIMS is needed. Rather than reviewing the inventories periodically during the âwhen to orderâ 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 Personickâs 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
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