Unsteadiness of the Resource-based Competitive Advantage in Absence of Competitive Strategy: Lessons from the Malaysian Wooden Furniture Industry

Ziaie, Mohsen; Mohamed, Saiful Bahri; Ratnasinga, J.; Noor, Awang; Saleh, Rosli

doi:10.3923/jas.2012.113.124

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“…With strength in commodity-type product manufacturing, Malaysian exporters are finding it difficult to compete in this marketplace and retain their profit margin (Ratnasingam and Ioras 2015). As implied in this study, the Original Equipment Manufacturing (OEM) strategy, which accounts for 75% of the manufacturing capacity, must be reduced and shifted towards Original Design Manufacturing (ODM) and Original Brand Manufacturing (OBM) strategies (Ziaie et al 2012). This will allow the Malaysian timber products to be exported to other non-traditional markets, in which the products are expected to face less competition and be more profitable.…”

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An Analysis of Labor and Capital Productivity in the Malaysian Timber Sector

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The remarkable transformation of the Malaysian timber sector from a net-importer to a multi-billion-dollar export-oriented sector has become a success model for many other resource-rich countries throughout the world. In view of the increasing socioeconomic importance of the timber sector in this country, the productivity performance of the six major timber sub-sectors was investigated in this study. Productivity is defined as the ratio of output to input and was analyzed from the year 2010 through 2014. The productivity performance was evaluated based on certain input factors, namely labor and capital. Generally, the productivity of the timber sector can be regarded as stagnating. Furthermore, the value-added was affected due to high reliance on labor for production. Among the factors that account for this lack of productivity growth are the increased competition in the international market, small domestic market, improper industrial development policies, poor adoption of technology, and the high dependency on human capital.

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confidence: 99%