Purpose – The purpose of this research is to identify the competitive priorities of the manufacturing firms in their internationalization efforts. Design/methodology/approach – A structured questionnaire survey is conducted involving 569 manufacturing firms in China. The competitive priority...

Purpose – While internationalization of firms can be a source of growth in profitability, it can also result in huge losses due to the risky internationalized environment. Success in the home countries does not guarantee success internationally. The objective of this study is to identify the...

The hook times of mobile cranes are processes that are of non-linear and discrete nature. Artificial neural network is a data processing technique that lends itself to this kind of problem. Three common artificial neural network architectures - multi-layer feed-forward (MLFF), group method of...