The competitiveness of Canada's food processing industry, a resource-based approach
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Résumé
This dissertation has three broad objectives. The first objective is to test the applicability of the resource-based theory of the firm in the context of the Canadian food processing industry. The second objective is to provide insight into other internal factors that may be contributing to the competitiveness of Canadian food processing companies. The third objective is to validate two competitiveness hypotheses, namely that operational flexibility is a competency of Canadian food processing companies and that strategic flexibility is an attribute of these companies. In order to address these objectives, a theoretical model based on the resource-based theory of the firm is developed and validated using the case method of research. The results suggest that the resource-based theory of the firm is applicable to managers in that managers were found to develop, nurture and leverage their competencies. However, the results also challenge two assertions of the resource-based theory of the firm literature, namely that companies should invest in barriers to imitation to protect their competencies, but most particularly that they should invest in the creation of causal ambiguity. The results also suggest that although the companies developed, nurtured and leveraged their competencies, other internal factors were important to their performance and competitiveness, including managing customer relationships and product innovation. Furthermore, the results establish that it is important for companies to understand their competencies, as well as these other factors, and interrelationships between them. This research did not validate the operational flexibility hypothesis given that only two companies were found to have it as a competency. The results, however, did illustrate that several dimensions of flexibility, such as mix and new product flexibility, must be present for a company to be able to draw a competitive advantage from operational flexibility. This research did validate the strategic flexibility hypothesis given that companies were found to monitor developments in their external environment, respond quickly to changing competitive conditions, and reassess components of their strategies. However, this research also found that the accumulation of market knowledge by managers was important to their strategic flexibility.
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Prédiction machine sur la base complète
Imitation des enseignantsNi prévalence calibrée, ni vérité terrain. Validation humaine à venir. Le volet Gemma est une étiquette directe du modèle pour chaque travail de la base, lue sur la notice réduite au titre. Le volet Codex est un classifieur appris des 10 348 étiquettes directes de Codex et calibré sur les taux pondérés de l'échantillon; les champs sans appui suffisant ne portent aucun appel Codex. Le mode candidate est l'union des deux volets; le consensus est leur intersection. Ces sorties portent le statut machine_predicted_unvalidated et ne sont pas des étiquettes humaines.
Scores du classifieur distillé par catégorie (deux têtes)
| Catégorie | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Métarecherche | 0,001 | 0,003 |
| Méta-épidémiologie (sens strict) | 0,001 | 0,000 |
| Méta-épidémiologie (sens large) | 0,000 | 0,000 |
| Bibliométrie | 0,005 | 0,006 |
| Études des sciences et des technologies | 0,008 | 0,005 |
| Communication savante | 0,011 | 0,002 |
| Science ouverte | 0,001 | 0,002 |
| Intégrité de la recherche | 0,001 | 0,001 |
| Charge utile insuffisante (le modèle a refusé de juger) | 0,004 | 0,000 |
Scores machine (provisoires)
Les deux têtes enseignantes du modèle étudiant, lues sur ce travail. Un score ordonne la base pour la relecture; il n'affirme jamais une catégorie, et le statut de validation accompagne chaque rangée tel quel.
Scores de référence d'un modèle non mature (critères de maturité non atteints, 7 itérations). Un score ordonne; il n'affirme jamais une catégorie.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · tel quel depuis la passe de notation : score_only signifie que le nombre peut ordonner les travaux, et qu'aucune étiquette de catégorie n'en découleClassification
machine, non validéePrédiction automatique; un appel candidat d’une seule source (Gemma direct ou Codex distillé), pas un consensus.
Le détail, modèle par modèle et score par score, se trouve en fin de page sous « Comment cette classification a été obtenue ».