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in different countries via the GMRG IV questionnaire. The impact of forecasting is studied in terms of operational …While the literature on demand forecasting has examined the best practices in the field, the interpretation and … forecasting problems, etc. Some other contributions have also taken a contingent approach, which states that best practices depend …
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The purpose of the article is to investigate the importance that differences in national culture characteristics have in explaining the relationship between competitive priorities and the investments in manufacturing practices. Several studies have investigated the role that national culture has...
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investigates the impact of how forecasting is conducted on accuracy and operational performances. Attention is here paid on three … elements that characterize the forecasting process: whether structured techniques are adopted, whether detailed information is … used, and the extent to which forecasting is used in decision making processes. Analyses are conducted by means of data …
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In this paper, I present a theory of management control based on Transaction Cost Economics. This theory seeks to integrate into a single framework a set of insights as to the nature of the organization's activities, the control problems that are inherent in these activities, and the unique...
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Using a configuration theory approach, this paper conducts a comparative study between frontline employees in phone and face-to-face service encounters for a retail bank. The study compares the top performers in service quality in relation to three components of organizational commitment and...
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Using the configurational approach, I synthesize alliance governance research by interpreting alliance governance systems as organizational form. I identify and analyze a set of design and contingency parameters and their interrelationships resulting in five configurations of alliance governance...
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In this paper, I present a theory of management control based on Transaction Cost Economics. This theory seeks to integrate into a single framework a set of insights as to the nature of the organization's activities, the control problems that are inherent in these activities, and the unique...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005505019
In spite of the continued importance of an innovation's attributes to research methodologies, and the increasing tendency toward multidimensional conceptualizations, the lack of a theoretically derived and empirically developed classification of innovations, conceived in terms of these perceived...
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Scope of the paper is improving our understanding of ‘value co-creation’, one of the cornerstones of the Service-Dominant (S-D) logic, which is focused on the undertaking of specific human interactive forms; to accomplish this goals the paper analyzes several organization theories’...
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