Strategic alignment deals with organizational strategic fit with functional areas strategies, such as human resources … management strategy. It is based on goal setting premise which believes in collaborative effort that involves all parties … imagining and working towards a common aim in tandem. Strategic alignment in this study takes assumption of goal setting theory …

This paper presents the results of a comprehensive literature review of the organization of purchasing covering the … purchasing may be oriented, and c) suggest promising areas for future research. …

This note considers the treatment of risk and uncertainty in the recently established social cost of carbon (SCC) for … discounting, it mis-estimated climate risk, possibly hugely. Given the uncertainty about estimating the SCC, the note concludes by …

on AM in the field of industrial procurement remains scarce. This is surprising, given that AM is not only changing … traditional procurement categories and creating new ones (comprising printers, powder raw materials, data and the associated … (transport, stocks) of supply chains. In addition, AM may resurrect the old procurement question of ‘make or buy’. Current …

The current article explores interesting, significant and recently identified nuances in the relationship “culture-strategy …, direction, structure, role and hierarchy of “culture-strategy” relation are defined as a starting point of the analysis. The … way a contemporary notion of the nature of “culture-strategy” relationship for the entities from the world of business is …

necessary in elaborating a strategy and in accumulating a dossier of best practices, in order to implement successfully the … strategic planning process and the branding strategy in the local communities of Romania. …

differentiation strategy has a positive effect on firm's performance. SMEs that use the differentiation strategy achieve better … performance than those who use one of the other strategies (low-cost strategy, focus strategy, or an overtaking strategy)". The …. Based on the results, we can confirm that changes in a firm's external environment affect the firm's strategy towards …