Business Intelligence Enabling Competitiveness: A Multi-Theoretical Analysis of South African Metals Manufacturers
The competitiveness of the South African metals manufacturers is under the spotlight, since new investments in the metals and engineering industry in South Africa have been poor, and growth in the Chinese trade has had a negative competitive effect on domestic metals manufacturing output and employ...
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The competitiveness of the South African metals manufacturers is under the spotlight, since new investments in the metals and engineering industry in South Africa have been poor, and growth in the Chinese trade has had a negative competitive effect on domestic metals manufacturing output and employment. The purpose of the study was to determine how supportive the business intelligence process is in enabling successful competitiveness in practice. A theoretical model was designed and empirically tested by metals manufacturers, where four theories were selected to act as mediators between the business intelligence process and successful competitiveness. This study tested four hypotheses by applying Spearman's rank-order correlations and a structural equation model. A total of 63 responses were received and analysed. The study found that the building blocks of the business intelligence process combined in a single factor do not directly lead to successful competitiveness, but only when all the theories' principles, combined into a single factor, act as mediators.
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| spelling | doaj.art-7af5f1679e2c42b786360d357ae26b212023-06-30T06:53:34ZengUniversity of PrimorskaManaging Global Transitions1854-69352023-06-0121210.26493/1854-6935.21.171-191Business Intelligence Enabling Competitiveness: A Multi-Theoretical Analysis of South African Metals ManufacturersHerman Smit0Merwe Oberholzer1Pieter Buys2North-West UniversityNorth-West UniversityNorth-West University The competitiveness of the South African metals manufacturers is under the spotlight, since new investments in the metals and engineering industry in South Africa have been poor, and growth in the Chinese trade has had a negative competitive effect on domestic metals manufacturing output and employment. The purpose of the study was to determine how supportive the business intelligence process is in enabling successful competitiveness in practice. A theoretical model was designed and empirically tested by metals manufacturers, where four theories were selected to act as mediators between the business intelligence process and successful competitiveness. This study tested four hypotheses by applying Spearman's rank-order correlations and a structural equation model. A total of 63 responses were received and analysed. The study found that the building blocks of the business intelligence process combined in a single factor do not directly lead to successful competitiveness, but only when all the theories' principles, combined into a single factor, act as mediators. https://ojs.upr.si/index.php/fm/article/view/129business intelligenceknowledge-based viewmetals manufacturersresource-based viewsustainable developmenttheory of constraints |
| spellingShingle | Herman Smit Merwe Oberholzer Pieter Buys Business Intelligence Enabling Competitiveness: A Multi-Theoretical Analysis of South African Metals Manufacturers Managing Global Transitions business intelligence knowledge-based view metals manufacturers resource-based view sustainable development theory of constraints |
| title | Business Intelligence Enabling Competitiveness: A Multi-Theoretical Analysis of South African Metals Manufacturers |
| title_full | Business Intelligence Enabling Competitiveness: A Multi-Theoretical Analysis of South African Metals Manufacturers |
| title_fullStr | Business Intelligence Enabling Competitiveness: A Multi-Theoretical Analysis of South African Metals Manufacturers |
| title_full_unstemmed | Business Intelligence Enabling Competitiveness: A Multi-Theoretical Analysis of South African Metals Manufacturers |
| title_short | Business Intelligence Enabling Competitiveness: A Multi-Theoretical Analysis of South African Metals Manufacturers |
| title_sort | business intelligence enabling competitiveness a multi theoretical analysis of south african metals manufacturers |
| topic | business intelligence knowledge-based view metals manufacturers resource-based view sustainable development theory of constraints |
| url | https://ojs.upr.si/index.php/fm/article/view/129 |
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