-term strategy and short-term tactics. Although managers continue to pursue efficiency and effectiveness within the firm … is coherent with firm strategy. In this second paper of the series we consider executional cost management in supply … business strategy, we provide an overview of strategic cost management in supply chains, highlight contemporary developments …

-term strategy and short-term tactics. Although managers continue to pursue efficiency and effectiveness within the firm … is coherent with firm strategy. In the second part of the series we will consider executional cost management, which … chain performance. Using selected studies in accounting, operations management and business strategy, we provide an overview …

This chapter draws on three branches of management studies – corporate strategy, technology strategy, and institutional … strategy – in order to develop a framework aimed at analyzing and predicting the nature and structure of GVCs. First, corporate … strategy informs how firms shape GVC governance by making decisions about their boundaries (what to make and what to buy) and …