This study examines the influence of strategic flexibility, innovation culture, agility, ambidexterity, and open innovation on sustainable competitive advantage, with corporate innovation and collaborative marketing tourism competitiveness as mediating variables. Data was collected directly through structured interviews guided by questionnaires. The research population was 534 registered "craft" creative industry companies including pearls, "Sasak" ikat weaving, and pottery in West Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia with the analysis unit being managers or assistant managers. The sampling method used stratified proportional random sampling with a sample size of 240 respondents. Data analysis in this study used descriptive statistics and Covariance-based SEM (Amos software). The findings prove that the eleven hypotheses which stated that there was a direct influence of the variables studied were all confirmed. Strategic flexibility and a culture of innovation play a role in increasing company innovation. Strategic flexibility plays a role in increasing the collaborative competitiveness of marketing tourism. Agility, ambidexterity, and open innovation play a role in increasing sustainable competitive advantage. Corporate innovation and collaborative competitiveness marketing tourism play a role in increasing sustainable competitive advantage. These results are very important to fill the research gap regarding the factors supporting innovation and collaborative competitiveness marketing tourism, and sustainable competitive advantage in Indonesia.

In the rapidly evolving landscape of supply chain management, the advent of the metaverse presents a novel frontier with significant potential for enhancing operational effectiveness and excellence. This study aims to examine the effect of metaverse adoption on various dimensions of the supply chain, including resilience, agility, flexibility, and performance. Utilizing a quantitative research approach, the research analyzes survey data from a significant sample size of 737 organizations that have adopted metaverse technology into their supply chain operations. The employment of partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) offers a comprehensive understanding of the metaverse's role in enhancing the dynamism and efficiency of supply chains. This study contributes to the emerging field of digital transformation in supply chain management by providing empirical evidence on the effectiveness of metaverse technology. It bridges the gap in literature regarding the practical application of advanced digital solutions in enhancing supply chain operations and sets a foundation for future research in this area.

The epidemic of the COVID-19 has spread rapidly worldwide. This phenomenon has changed people's lifestyles as well as business activities. Many businesses are unable to operate normally, which is caused /or affected by supply chain disruption. Therefore, supply chain resilience after the COVID-19 pandemic is essential to maintaining the liquidity of businesses and increasing supply chain efficiency. This research aimed to examine factors influencing supply chain resilience and construct a structural equation model for supply chain resilience after the COVID-19 pandemic in Thailand's industries. A research framework was developed according to previous literature in the context of supply chain resilience. Five constructs, namely Technology, Flexibility, Collaboration, Agility, and Supply chain resilience, with seven hypotheses were established. A questionnaire survey was developed from the research framework and previous literature. Then, the validity and reliability test of the questionnaire were performed with the Index of Item Objective Congruence (IOC) technique and Cronbach’s alpha, respectively. The data was obtained from 426 business organizations in both the industrial and service industry in Thailand. The structural equation model (SEM) technique was conducted to examine the relationship between constructs. The results revealed that agility was only a factor that directly influenced supply chain resilience, while technology had an indirect effect on it via agility. However, technology has had direct effects on flexibility, agility, and collaboration.

This study investigates the impact of cloud-based supply chain management on organizational agility, using a Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) approach. The research is motivated by the growing importance of cloud computing in supply chain management and the need for empirical studies that assess its benefits and challenges. Drawing on a survey of 200 supply chain managers from various industries, we develop and test a theoretical model that explores the relationships between cloud adoption and organizational agility. Hypotheses for the study are tested using the structural equation model. According to the study, Cloud-based SCM has a statistically significant effect on agility and flexibility. The findings have important practical and theoretical implications and provide insights that can help managers and practitioners make informed decisions regarding the implementation of cloud-based SCM solutions and the development of strategies that enhance supply chain agility and competitiveness.

This study aims to explore the role of workplace flexibility in promoting creativity and innovation within emerging entrepreneurial projects in Saudi companies. The study adopted a descriptive approach to data analysis and used a questionnaire to collect data from a sample of (120) participants working in emerging entrepreneurial projects. The study included two axes (workplace flexibility and creativity and innovation). The results showed a high level of workplace flexibility among the study sample and a high level of creativity and innovation. Analyses revealed a positive relationship between workplace flexibility and creativity and innovation, indicating that providing a flexible work environment contributes to promoting creative behaviors within emerging entrepreneurial projects. The results did not reveal statistically significant differences in participants' responses attributable to demographic variables (job title, age of the entrepreneurial project, number of years of experience), which supports the generalizability of the results. The study presented a number of practical recommendations, most notably the adoption of flexible workplace policies and the development of work environments that stimulate innovation, which supports the success of entrepreneurial projects in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Supply chain management is essential for enhancing an organisation’s position among its competitors by improving its efficiency and effectiveness. The fundamental goal of this study is to recognize the effect of the supply chain responsiveness, flexibility, and its adaptation within the Saudi Arabian business industry. The data in this study were collected from a sample of 390 participants in senior business positions, and then analysed using the multiple regression technique. The results indicated that both the measurements and model have satisfactory fit indices and showed that the three hypotheses raised in this study could be accepted. Additionally, the results demonstrated that both the responsiveness and adaptation of the supply chain exert a positive effect on how the supply chain performs. So, the faster the organisation responds and adapts to the supply chain activities, the higher performance they tend to get.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between personality dimensions of employees and work addiction in Management and Planning Organization of Hamedan. This study was descriptive-correlation and it was also an applied research in terms of its nature. The statistical population included all employees in Management and Planning Organization in Hamedan who worked in 2016 and their total number was 74 subjects. In this study, the statistical sample of employees was estimated up to 62 individuals using Morgan and Krejcie tables with simple random method. The measuring tool for personality dimensions was NEO 50-item short form questionnaire and one for work addiction was Spence and Robbins’s 20-item questionnaire. The results of Pearson correlation and regression analysis showed that all personality dimensions of employees had a significant relationship with work addiction which among them, extraversion, flexibility and accountability dimensions had a negative correlation with work addiction. Also, altruism and flexibility dimensions can predict work addiction, respectively.

In today’s business scenario, organizations are focusing on sustainable growth for performance measurement in supply chain. For this purpose, sustainable flexibility is an important issue to fulfill the environmental, economic and customer’s needs, which is helpful for sustainable growth for an industry. In this paper, different factors related to sustainable flexibility in supply chain management are identified through literature review and experts’ opinions in this domain. Further, an attempt has been made to develop the interactions among these factors using Total Interpretive Structural Modeling (T-ISM) technique. This paper also employs Cross Impact Matrix Multiplication Applied to Classifications (MICMAC) based analysis to create policy to implement for sustainable growth in industries. Findings of this research give valuable decision-making insight and implications about the relative importance and the interdependence of flexibility factors in sustainable supply chain management for academicians and practicing managers in sustainable growth of an industry.

Human resources are the primary factor for development of competitiveness and innovation and reaching competitive advantage and they try to improve corporate capabilities through various characteristics such as value creation, scarcity and difficulty of imitation. This paper investigates the effect of human resource flexibility and its dimensions on human resource development and its dimensions. The survey was conducted using descriptive-correlation method that intended to describe how human resource flexibility was effective on human resource development. Questionnaire was tool of data collection. The statistical population included one hundred employees of the Electric Company in Ilam province, thus census method was used. Reliability of the questionnaire was measured via Cronbach & apos; s alpha equal to 0.96. The findings revealed that flexibility and its dimensions were effective on human resource development and dimensions of it. As a result, human resource flexibility should be considered for development of human resources and employees with the highest flexibility should be selected.

Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP) are considered as the newest and most effective tools of enterprise resource planning and include an interconnected information, management and engineering system that meets all the needs of an organization. ERP implementation is costly and time-consuming and makes fundamental change in the process, if not implemented correctly it will cause challenges in most parts of the organization and will certainly fail. Therefore, the identification of key success factors in implementing ERP helps organizations avoid the loss of the project. This research aims to identify key success factors for ERP by examining 185 managers, professionals, experts of the Information and Communication Technology Institute associated with the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology of Iran. A questionnaire was used to collect data. Findings from exploratory factor analysis indicate that five factors: 1) user friendliness, flexible and consistency 2) establishment of project management; 3) alignment with user needs; 4) Management of organizational changes, and 5) observing the principles of successful implementation of ERP affect the institute and the corresponding suggestions are proposed consistent with these findings.