Competitive factors influencing sales of tractors Malaysia in heavy construction industries / Mohamad Zaki Adnan

Adnan, Mohamad Zaki (2006) Competitive factors influencing sales of tractors Malaysia in heavy construction industries / Mohamad Zaki Adnan. [Student Project] (Unpublished)

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Organizations today believe that gaining competitive advantage is a strategy for the company to boost their sales performance. Sales are vital for many industries as it like a backbone of the company. As companies are reaching to a higher level in obtaining and producing more sales there will be more competitors exist to challenge the company sales performance. There will be more competitors entered in the same industries. Based on that reasons, this research has been conducted with purpose to examine the relationship between competitive factors and the sales. Competitive factors is the main topic of this study because it is the crucial factors needed to be considered as it will lead to competitive advantage to a company. The selected company for this study is Tractors Malaysia because it was well established heavy construction equipment manufacturer and can be a good example for this research. This study focuses on heavy construction equipment industries.
For the purpose of conducting this study, descriptive research was used. All the data collected is taken from secondary data which was from Tractors Malaysia itself. The data were for five years, from year 2001 to 2005. The data has been interpreted and analyze by using Statistical Package for Social Science. From the findings and analysis the result has shown that three of the competitive factors; parts availability, outsourcing and customer financing have strong or positive relationship with sales. In contrast, pricing has a negative relationship with sales. Hopefully, from the findings of this research can give some benefits to the company and the government as with this research; they can make some improvement to increase their sales.

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Item Type: Student Project
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Adnan, Mohamad Zaki
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Divisions: Universiti Teknologi MARA, Melaka > Alor Gajah Campus > Faculty of Business and Management
Keywords: Tractors Malaysia; Heavy construction industries
Date: 2006
URI: https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/17966
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