Organisational learning has been identified as a lasting source of competitive advantage in uncertain environments. Plentiful research has highlighted that knowledge and skills and the capabilities they develop are strategic resources and that effective utilisation of these resources enhances...

Petranek's Pharmacy was located at 426 North Milwaukee Avenue near the southeast corner of East Cook Street and North Milwaukee Avenue. It was a successor to the historic Lovell's Pharmacy, owned by Kenneth Lovell, which opened for business at that site in 1876. Over the years, several people...

Petranek's Pharmacy was located at 426 North Milwaukee Avenue near the southeast corner of East Cook Street and North Milwaukee Avenue. It was a successor to the historic Lovell's Pharmacy, owned by Kenneth Lovell, which opened for business at that site in 1876. Over the years, several people...

This dissertation investigates the dynamics that underlie enterprise performance and takes a significant step toward showing how it might be predicted. In a novel approach, a comprehensive Enterprise System Architecture (ESA) is developed that introduces separate layers for strategic and...

This study provides evidence pertaining to organizational characteristics associated with greater perceived disaster recovery plan (DRP) strength or effectiveness. Based on an analysis of data gathered from over 100 public companies, company size and perceived management support for DRPs are...

The article compares the traditionally balanced and just-in-time lines of production. Over the years, many companies have implemented the just-in-time (JIT) philosophy to assist them in competing on the basis of speed and agility. JIT production lines utilize capacity slack to assist in...

This article addresses the issue of training next-generation family members once they have joined the management team in their family firm. The qualitative analysis of strategic planning processes of 18 Italian family firms shows that involving next-generation family members in the planning...

To contribute to the PCAOB project on risk assessment in financial statement audits, we draw on the academic literature to offer insights and conclusions on the risk-assessment process. We use the PCAOB's (2005) recent briefing paper on risk assessment as the organizing framework for our...