The relationships among agility empowerers from the viewpoint of gaining competitive advantage Online publication date: Fri, 04-Sep-2015
by Houshang Taghizadeh; Abdolhossein Shokri
International Journal of Trade and Global Markets (IJTGM), Vol. 8, No. 3, 2015
Abstract: The purpose of the present paper is to identify the mutual influence (influencing and being influenced) of organisational agility empowerers from the viewpoint of gaining competitive advantages. The research is of descriptive type, and the statistical population consists of 50 managers of auto-parts manufacturing companies in East Azarbaijan province, Iran. For this purpose, from among the managers and experts of the manufacturing companies under study, 50 people were chosen and polled. For data collection, researcher-made questionnaires were used, the validity and reliability of which were confirmed through content validity, calculation of Spearman correlation coefficient and test-retest methods. In order to analyse the data, the researchers used Student's t-test and DEMATEL method. The results indicate that the components' 'responsiveness and flexibility' have been identified as having the highest rate of being influenced, and the components' 'speed and competency' have been recognised as the most influential ones.
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