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The relationship between leadership - members exchange and organisational commitment has caught attention from human resource management and organisational behaviour scholars in recent years. According to recent management and psychological science literature, leadership is a term with several characteristics and a wide range of applications. This analysis aims to examine the impact of leadership - member exchange types on employee organisational commitment in Saudi Arabia's healthcare sector. This research focuses on the importance of self-enhancement as a mediating factor in the partnership between leadership - participant sharing and organisational engagement. This study employs a theoretically built model To observe and describe the interaction between variables. As a result, the leadership - members exchange theory and the Social Identity Theory is used in this analysis to address the relationship as mentioned earlier. Theoretical and observational experiments have been analysed and summarised in this paper to further investigate the connection. The thesis comes to a close with a drawback and a suggestion for potential studies.

The firm’s change strategy is important to adapt to new changing business environment. As the organizational change is a common phenomenon in a highly competitive business environment with respect to its effect on supply chain management, this study aims to develop an integrative approach on the relationship among organizational change, supply chain disruption, sustainable supply chain management and supply chain resilience. Using data from 324 SME manufacturers, the hierarchical regression analysis shows that there is significant relationship among these variables. Several plausible causal effects are also discussed. In addition, this study offers insight about the impact of organizational change on supply chain management.

Social commerce (s-commerce) is a rapidly developing form of e-commerce powered by social media influencers (SMIs). It can create valuable opportunities for retailers. In light of this growing trend, this study explores the influence of consumers’ engagement experiences (social support and presence) on community identification and consumers’ attachment to SMIs, along with their impact on consumers’ stickiness in the s-commerce context. We explore this through social presence and social support theory. The survey data from 411 s-commerce users via an online questionnaire were analyzed empirically with the PLS-SEM approach. The results indicated that presence and social support have significantly positive impacts on consumers’ attachment to SMIs and community identification, respectively. This increases users’ stickiness in s-commerce. This study enriches our understanding of user stickiness in s-commerce and can assist online vendors in developing marketing strategies and cultivating sustained relationships with their users.

Saudi Arabia's higher education system suffers from academicians’ retention issues, besides low satisfaction. The employment situation in Saudi universities has shown considerable instability for many years, as shown by the high turnover rates among academic staff. The turnover rate is reported to be high and needs to be addressed with the help of retention strategies. Thus, the objective of this study is to identify and consolidate various relevant factors that have an impact on employee satisfaction and retention in the education sector in KSA, specifically in universities. This study also examines the mediating role of employee satisfaction between three factors: compensation package, perceived organizational support, and supportive work environment with regard to employee retention and the moderating role of gender between employee satisfaction and employee retention. To achieve the objectives, a survey strategy was applied to this study because it is associated with a deductive approach. This study employs the quantitative method, relying on primary data at the cross-sectional horizon. The population of this study comprises the academicians who work within Saudi Arabian universities. The online survey instrument was used to collect the data from the target sample size, which was determined to be 384 academicians. The study used structural equation modeling (SEM) to test the hypotheses developed in the study. The study has found a supportive work environment has a positive, significant relationship with employee satisfaction, as well as with employee retention. However, there were no relationships between (compensation package, perceived organizational support) and both employee satisfaction and employee retention. The study found employee satisfaction significantly mediated the relationship between a supportive work environment on employee retention. This study showed the importance of employee satisfaction in order to assist organizations in achieving employee

The reason for this analysis is to introduce the correlation between organizational change and supply chain management (SCM) practices and supply chain responsiveness (SCR), and explores its relationship with upper hand. The data assortment instrument utilized was a survey which was administrated to an absolute sample of 200 managers from SMEs part in Malaysia's. The reaction rate was 70% while 60% was usable questionnaires. Sample determination depended on convenience sampling. The researches included statistical descriptive strategies, for instance theliability and validity tests and various regressions. The outcomes demonstrated that SCM practices are identified with SCR. The outcome likewise recommended that SCR is identified with upper hand take part.

This research aims to explore and understand critical success factors (CSF) of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in food and beverage (F&B) manufacturing industry. This research focuses on food and beverage industry (F&B) because F&B manufacturing SMEs play a significant role in a country’s economies. However, these SMEs face multiple challenges to gain competitiveness in the marketplace. This research employed multiple case study method and has conducted in-depth interviews with 8 SMEs owners and top management. It has identified 16 CSFs that influence the success of the F&B manufacturing SMEs. Among all, are business strategy, networking, foreign worker management, attractive product packaging, innovation, family capital, business experience, online visibility, access to finance, entrepreneurial orientation, professional management team, effective food safety system, effective quality management system, halal certification, entrepreneurial competencies and supply chain management. The study provides useful guidelines for business owners of SMEs and lays foundation for future research work.

This study aims to develop a roadmapping system that can be used as a knowledge management tool for any organization. The study employed a structured action research to test the implementation of the proposed roadmapping system in a real industrial environment. An internal facilitator collected data through a clinical inquiry approach. The output is a roadmapping system for knowledge management for an organisation, which enhances strategic capability. It also helps to capture and handle the complexities of business strategies in a simple way or that is easy to understand. The proposed roadmapping system was only tested on one firm. Pending further research, these findings should not be generalised. The proposed roadmapping system improves the capability of an organisation to plan and implement its strategies. The proposed system can be used for strategic planning and knowledge management - it allows managers to "kill two birds with one stone." Unlike conventional technology roadmapping (TRM) research that focuses more on the hard aspects of technical and economic elements, this study explores the soft aspects of knowledge management for improving the strategic capability of an organisation. This research has extended the traditional boundary of TRM to include effective information systems.

Strategic Roadmapping is an outstanding strategic planning tool for a company’s top-level management team to co-ordinate strategy, market, product, innovation, capability and resource. It incorporates the core concepts of strategic charting, visualization, technology road-mapping and resource-based view into practice. It is very useful tool, not oly for strategic planning, but for market, product, and technology planning. This book provides explanation and details the use of strategic roadmapping. It consists of an illustration of how to develop a strategic roadmap. The background and the underlying concept of strategic roadmapping are explained. The application examples from live industrial settings are provided. In addition, related research works that explore the theoretical foundation and practicality of strategic roadmapping are also included. It is not just an academic textbook but it is essentially a working document that provides useful guidelines to assist a company management team to use strategic roadmapping to perform their strategic planning tasks.

Integration of various theories is essential to completely understand and explain strategic alliances in a supply chain. The purpose of this paper is to develop a framework by integrating the features of transaction cost theory, resource-based theory, contingency theory, social exchange theory, and Kelley's personal relationship theory and test the framework through empirical research. The present study addresses the impact of strategic alliance motives, environment, asset specificity, perception of opportunistic behavior, interdependence between supply chain partners, and relational capital on strategic alliance outcomes. Besides, the study has also tested the role of relational capital as a central mediating construct. A sample of 2156 companies representing different industries in manufacturing in Malaysia was selected for the distribution of questionnaire. We tested the structural model using structural equation modeling (SEM). Based on the results, we conclude the following significant relationships: (1) strategic alliance motives and perception of opportunistic behavior on interdependence and relational capital, (2) interdependence on relational capital, (3) environment on strategic alliance motives, (4) relational capital on strategic alliance outcomes, and (4) the mediating role of relational capital. The current study adds significantly to the body of knowledge on strategic alliances and can help managers identify factors that influence the success of strategic alliances and provide a proper direction to develop robust and effective collaborative relationships between supply chain partners.

This paper aims to develop a supply chain roadmapping technique for managers to map, visualize, and analyze strategies of multiple firms operating in a supply chain. The integration and alignment of strategy between suppliers, manufacturers, and customers to maintain competitive in business is getting more importance in today’s global market, Thus it is important for managers to focus on multiple players and complex strategic decisions in the whole supply chain. The questions of how could managers manage their supply chain that involves a wide range of competing and cooperating firms; and how could managers analyze strategies of a collective of vertically related companies at a variety of different situational settings, are of interest to many managers. So far, little is available to assist managers in analyzing strategies of a supply chain. In order to address this gap, a supply chain roadmapping technique is adopted and tested in a wide range of companies using action research. A live industrial case study is used to demonstrate the application of the technique. This paper reports the findings and is structured into five parts. Firstly, this paper reviews the literature on supply chain strategy. Then, it describes the underlying concepts and stages of the supply chain roadmapping technique. Thirdly, the action research use in this research is illustrated. Fourthly, the application of the technique in a live industrial setting is described, and the results are presented. Finally, the paper concludes by discussing the implications of this work to managers and academics.

This research aims to explore the practice of technology roadmapping (TRM) in Malaysia. Managers from a total of 11 firms were interviewed and follow by an in-depth study in a firm. The interviews have revealed that the use of TRM in Malaysia is limited. These findings signal a strong ignorance of the dramatic impact technologies have on organizations among businesses operating in Malaysia. The findings from an in-depth interview showed that TRM has been effectively implemented by a firm. It also has enabled many technology roadmaps to be developed for identifying new technological research areas in future.

This paper aims to propose a new research perspective in management to bridge the gap between theory and practice. This perspective is grounded on a combined research methodology that has incorporated a consultation approach, multiple case study methods, action research, process approach and grounded theory approach to effectively capture, analyze, categorize, and make sense of data to produce application knowledge in research. The application knowledge generated from this perspective is directly applicable to the industry. Practitioners can use this knowledge without modifying it further. This paper presents the types of knowledge generated from this perspective. It focuses on the philosophical position of research rather than the detail techniques or methods used in research. Thus, the arguments in this paper are mainly at the epistemological stance, rather than focus on the method itself. This paper is structured into four parts. Firstly, the knowledge generated from this new perspective is presented. Then, the definition of the philosophy science is reviewed. Thirdly, the new science perspective is compared with the two older paradigm systems: positivism and interpretivism. The discussions are centered around whether the knowledge generated from this new perspective follow scientific method or not. Finally, the paper concludes with discussing the validity and reliability of the theory generated in this new philosophical system.

This paper describes a road mapping system for knowledge generation, storage, and sharing. It illustrates the theory and practice of road mapping. How the system is being used is also presented in a step-by-step format. The paper ends with discussing the process of generation, storage, and sharing of knowledge.

This paper reports a research on developing a SWOT roadmapping technique for managing strategy, operations, and technology of a firm. The technique has incorporated the concepts of technology roadmapping, strategic charting, and SWOT to help managers in developing strategic plans and capabilities that support business requirement. In order to operationalise the technique, it was tested in two laboratory experiments and four companies. The results show mixed opinions of positive and negative feedbacks from the respondents. The findings of this research are of interest of many academics and managers. The implications of the findings to both theory and practice are discussed.

This research aims to study the use of roadmaps in e-Technology management. e-Technology is becoming increasingly important in the new technological age. The effective management of e-Technology is the concern of many managers today. Many managers require appropriate methods or systems such as a roadmap, which can support the development and implementation of integrated strategic business, product and technology plans. Roadmaps have been widely used in industry. However, roadmaps consist of various types of format and use in different ways by many firms. The diverse ways of roadmap construction may be due to a lack of clear and accepted standards or formats for managers. This paper illustrates how roadmaps are use for e-Technology management in a firm. The firm has adopted roadmaps for analysing their R&D, technology, product and marketing plans. The paper has discovered many useful insights into managing e-Technology with roadmaps. The paper concludes with discussing implications to managers and academics.

Purpose: The aims of this paper are: to argue the role of Kelley's personal relationship theory (PRT) in explaining the maintenance and success of alliance outcomes; to argue the inclusion of communication between supply chain partners as a major component of relationship capital in addition to trust and commitment; to test the impact of interdependence between supply chain partners on strategic alliance outcomes; and to test the role of relationship capital as a mediating construct between interdependence. Design/methodology/approach: A questionnaire was constructed and sent to 2,156 supply chain managers in Malaysia. The questionnaire captured three constructs: interdependence – task, goal and reward; relationship capital – trust, commitment, and communication; and strategic alliance outcomes – goal, value‐creation, and re‐evaluation. The companies were selected randomly from the Federation of Malaysian Manaufacturers (FMM) directory. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to test the hypotheses. Findings: The major findings are: communication must be included as a major component of relationship capital in addition to trust and commitment; Kelley's PRT plays a prominent role in explaining the maintenance and success of strategic alliance outcomes; interdependence has a significant relationship with relationship capital; relationship capital has a significant relationship with strategic alliance outcomes; and relationship capital acts as a pure mediator between interdependence and strategic alliance outcomes. Originality/value: This research contributes significantly to the theoretical and empirical developments that enrich the strategic alliance literature.