Corporate engagement in water sustainability from a supply chain perspective is limited but growing, as a clear business case is manifesting. Increasingly, water is becoming a serious risk for companies with global operations, since water stress and water access problems are growing. To date,...

This piece of work presents three cases: Caprica, Productores de Chihuahua and LosPorcicultores, all of which have united their efforts and created enterprises as a strategythrough which the participants –small producers- generate networks to associate. This allowsthem the opportunity to...

This paper highlights several management practices from the oil and gas industry to support the proposition that financial performance in the finite, non-renewable resource business relates more to upstream rather than downstream activities. Based on the analysis of nine oil and gas companies,...

This research aims to elucidate how economic value is generated in the mining business and what the sources of such economic value are. A predicament arises when asking what determines the value of a mining company. The relevancy of this question rests on the influence of mining in economics and...

Successfully implementing ICT projects is a significant challenge for ICT managers. This paper addresses this problem by adding insights regarding critical success factors of B2B portals in the automotive industry to the existing knowledge in the field of ICT. It might be argued that if acompany...

Collective investments have become a very popular investment vehicle in South Africa because it is, among other things, transparent, liquid and easily accessible. Growing investor knowledge, good market returns and its suitability for diversification, which minimizes risk, also contributes to...

The UK government has started to demand a “whole-life, whole-system” view of newcontracts within the UK rail industry; requiring the industry to transform the way itdoes business in order to deliver this new paradigm. This paper describes the work ofa collaborative academic-industry research...

Overview of Value Chain Analysis: Exchange between firms is central to the study of business ? to ? business marketing. Firms perform activities to facilitate these exchanges, principally resources, en route to developing their competitive advantages, in turn creating a basis for...

Eine langfristige und nachhaltige Steigerung des Unternehmenswerts als zentrales Unternehmensziel fordert eine konsequente, wertorientierte Ausrichtung aller Unternehmensteile und -aktivit?ten. Das Risikomanagement, welches stets im Rahmen einer integrierten Betrachtung von Ertrags- und...

This thesis presents a design investigation into how traditional technology-orientated markets can use design led innovation (DLI) strategies in order to achieve better market penetration of disruptive products. In a review of the Australian livestock industry, considering historical information...