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Determinants of Profitability in Aviation Industry of Europe and America Alexandros Garefalakis; George Mantalis; Christos Lemonakis; Konstantinos Vassakis; konstantinos Spinthiropoulos
International Journal of Supply Chain Management Vol 5, No 2 (2016): International Journal of Supply Chain Management (IJSCM)
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The civil aviation, is an industry evolving at exponential speed despite the significant problems that faces in the last decade (increase of oil price, terrorist attacks etc.) An important feature of aviation firms and generally all companies, is that their size reflects their efficiency and in general their economic growth. In this era of financial crisis, liquidity is a significant factor for the stabilization and growth of economic organizations. Therefore, the examination of cash flows as indicator of liquidity limitations is necessary for the measurement of firms profitability. In this study, we tried to see whether the efficiency of size of European and American airlines listed firms, depends on their growth and cash flows from investment activity
Principle Characteristics in Firms’ Competitiveness Endeavour: Use of Managerial and Strategic Reasoning Technics for Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Christos Lemonakis; Alexandros Garefalakis; Georgios Xanthos; Nikolaos Sialveras
International Journal of Supply Chain Management Vol 8, No 4 (2019): International Journal of Supply Chain Management (IJSCM)
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The purpose of this paper is to study the characteristics of competitiveness in firms’ sectors of the Greek manufacturing industry, based on firm-level accounting and qualitative data attempting to identify key issues regarding Greek SMEs. An unbalanced data set of 407 Greek manufacturing SMEs is implemented, covering the period of 2003-2011 with the use of a multivariate regression model (EGLS) with explanatory variables characterizing firms’ operational activity. Although considerable empirical work has been done on this subject, research on the topic is limited and non-existent for Greece. An Index is developed in order to measure competitiveness characteristics in the Greek SMEs. The method to determine these characteristics in Greek manufacturing SMEs is novel using factors related to knowledge management, information technology, innovation in comparison with accounting data presenting main competitiveness characteristics especially in the during the crisis period .
Manufacturing SMEs Competitiveness against the Crisis: Management Characteristics and New Perspectives Nikolaos Sariannidis; Christos Lemonakis; Alexandros Garefalakis; Tzallas Paraskevas
International Journal of Supply Chain Management Vol 8, No 4 (2019): International Journal of Supply Chain Management (IJSCM)
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The purpose of this paper is to study the drivers of competitiveness in sectors of the Greek manufacturing industry, both in the pro and post economic crisis era, based on firm level financial and qualitative data cover this gap, providing evidence about factors impact competitive dynamic of Greek manufacturing SMEs taking into account aspects of IT, knowledge management, training, innovation and financial ratios. The study is structured as follows: the next section presents a literature review on this subject, while section 3 highlight the methodology as well as the model approach of the study. In section 4, the empirical results of the study are presented and section 5 the main findings are discussed. Section 6 summarizes the empirical findings and draws the policy implications of the study.