Reengineering the Furniture Industry in Egypt to Help Improve its Export Capability: A System Dynamics View

摘要

The furniture industry around the world is undergoing a period of rapidglobalization. With the rapid globalization of the furniture industry and thecompetitive pressures of imports, a nation had to find a way to stay competitive. Thefurniture Industry in Egypt experience a lot of weaknesses and constraints that limitedthe industry growth and hence its export. Most importantly, are the quality, deliverydelays and others that are rooted fundamentally into the current structure of theindustry.The objective of the paper is to propose group of policies that might help reengineerthe Egyptian furniture industry. As outcomes of the research, the authors havesuggested two group of policies based on the scale of the furniture manufacturerusing a time framework approach. A system dynamic methodology has been used toconceptualize the dynamics of the furniture industry in Egypt, and hence proposemacro solutions to the observed problems by the researchers. So, the research followsa qualitative paradigm that needs quantification in future phases of the research.