• Title of article

    Designing the model of customer agility and competitive activity

  • Author/Authors

    Seyed Hamid Khodadad Hosseini، نويسنده , , Soheila Khoddami، نويسنده , , Asghar Moshabaki، نويسنده , , Adel Azar، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2011
  • Pages
    14
  • From page
    12915
  • To page
    12928
  • Abstract
    Firms in todayʹs world face great environmental turbulence due to ever-evolving competition, changing technology, fluctuating demand, disruption in the supply chain caused by man made or natural disasters, etc. High levels of environmental turbulence can paralyze a firmʹs operations. Actually competitive activity of the firm in this environments is depends on the firmʹs ability to change management and its flexibility. For this reason agility is an important determinant of firm success in hypercompetitive environments. Regarding high importance of agility and its different aspects, just a few researches are conducted concerning the formation of agility in organization. Based on dynamic view in competitive environments, the tools for achieving agility in organization are dynamic capabilities, so in this study we try to present and test the model of agility aspect formation in organizationʹs agility structure based on dynamic capabilities of IT competency, entrepreneurial alertness and market agility in order to optimize competitive activities in IT industry of Iran.
  • Keywords
    entrepreneurial alertness , market acuity , Customer agility , competitive activity
  • Journal title
    African Journal of Business Management
  • Serial Year
    2011
  • Journal title
    African Journal of Business Management
  • Record number

    687510