Journal of Security and Sustainability Issues

The objective of the study is to examine the mediating impact of competitive advantage on the relationship of supply chain management (SCM) practices and firm performance of the pharmaceutical industry of Thailand. For this purpose, the questionnaires were distributed among the 1400 supply chain manager which yield a 40% response rate. Based on SEM analysis, it is found that customer relationship (CR), time to market (TM), postponement (POS) have a significant association with the firm performance. While, supplier partnership (SP), information quality (IQ), information sharing (IS) have an insignificant association with the firm performance. On the other hand, it is found POS, CR, IQ, IS, SP have also a significant association with the competitive advantage, whereas, POS is not having a significant association with the competitive advantage. In addition, the mediating effect shows that competitive advantage has a partial mediating among all of the SCM practices and firm performance of the pharmaceutical industry of Thailand. These findings show that competitive advantage is considered to be a significant mediator in the relationship of relationship of SCM practices and firm performance of the pharmaceutical industry of Thailand. The current added a body of literature in the form of empirical findings which could become an area of interest for the future research. The research is also beneficial for the supply chain managers to know about the importance of SCM practices to improve the firm performance through the competitive advantage. The research limitations and future directions are also discussed at the end of the study.

The objective of this research is to acquire empirical evidence regarding the influence of firm size, firm leverage, firm age, audit quality, female directors, profitability, board size, audit committee size and board meeting towards earnings management of nonfinancial companies listed in Indonesia. Methodology/technique: the population under this research is non-financial companies listed on the Indonesian Stock Exchange (IDX) from 2014 to 2017. The samples were obtained secondarily are then selected through a purposive sampling technique by defining the sampling criteria. There were 127 non-financial companies listed on the Indonesian Stock Exchange which resulted in 508 data sets being available throughout the research. This research also uses hypothesis testing as part of the data analysis. The outcome of this research suggests that firm leverage, audit quality and profitability have an effect on earnings management for stable financial results. Meanwhile, firm size, firm age, female director, board size, audit committee size and board meeting do not have an effect on earnings management in non-financial companies listed on the Indonesian Stock Exchange.

This study was conducted to determine the effect of research and development intensity (RNDI) on firm performance (FP) with green product innovation (GPI) as an intervening variable. Companies which are always innovative with market developments will get two benefits. First, achieving competitive advantage. Second, obtaining economic benefits, therefore it will increase firm performance. This study uses 170 company observations from listed companies in Indonesia Stock Exchange at 2013-2017 as sample of research. The samples were choosen by purposive sampling method and were analized by path analysis method using STATA software. The result shows that RNDI has an effect on FP, RNDI has an effect on GPI, and GPI has an effect on FP. They indicate that GPI can mediate the effect of RNDI on FP in partial.