(Fischer and Schott, 1993) and the Management Institute for Environment and Business (now part of the World Resources Institute …). What began as a modest offshoot of management research has grown into a maturing area of study within the management …

In recent years, cooperative buyer-supplier relationships, fashioned after the Japanese management style, have become … suggest that supplier management characterized by reciprocal investments, mutual dependence, and information sharing is a …

), while paying much less attention to the ongoing management of there relationships. This study takes an in depth look at the … management and performance of multi-service relationships where respondent firms have one or more services outsourced to the same … vendor. In particular, the study looks at two key choices in the management of the relationship: level of outsourcing, and …

in corporate level strategic decision making. …

A common issue in strategic management research is competitive advantage and the search for sources of performance …-based capability for performance. Thus, this dissertation addresses major unresolved issues in both the Strategic Management and … Management Information Systems literature by advancing an argument that IT-based capabilities can serve as sources of performance …