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becoming a standard practice in many global organizations. Using a dataset of 1455 observations from the suppliers of a North … globally integrated procurement organization to achieve global and local sourcing responsiveness and superior supplier working … relations. The study found that if a global procurement organization aspires to achieve exceptional supplier working relations …
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This paper studies the interplay between top and middle managers as a determinant of strategy-making effectiveness. Participation is a pivotal concern among different types of strategy-making process to grasp the conditions that account for effective strategy-making. We deal with how the...
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This paper examines the interplay between top and middle level managers as strategy-making settles and in subsequent managerial action. It reports on an exploratory case study at a car service company that has an aggressive expansion strategy. The study examines the context and characteristics...
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This study tries to understand the sustainable competitive advantage in interorganizational perspective. It is based on … competitive advantage. However, in an inter-organizational perspective, the "marginal resources" and "market access competencies …
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This paper reviews the theoretical and empirical aspects of the determinants of student non-return and brain drain. As a whole, the empirical literature on the determinants of student non-return and brain drain do not appear to be testing what the theoretical works are hypothesising. The most...
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During the past decades, several joint maintenance and inventory optimization systems have been studied in literature. Compared to the sequential optimization of both models, Kabir and Al-Olayan (1996) reported a remarkable influence on total cost due to their joint optimization method. This...
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Purpose - The literature on the topic has evolved exponentially since eight years ago. Relaying on a review of studies published in recent years, this article proposes and discusses a framework which incorporates a set of virtual teams involved in a new product development initiative....
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angle; networking as practice. The study examines (i) the precepts and principles that direct the start-ups’ networking …
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required if management is exercised as a domain-related practice. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013 …
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Bourdieu’s theory of cultural and social reproduction—with its core concepts cultural capital, habitus, practice and … capital, few attempt to operationalize Bourdieu’s accompanying concepts of habitus and practice, and to consider gender … differences along these dimensions. The present study addresses these gaps by examining a “structure-disposition-practice” model …
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