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Positioned for success: Designing the optimal corporate real estate organisation Part 1

Valenziano, Stephen F.; Kious, Lynn G. - In: Journal of Corporate Real Estate 7 (2005) 2, pp. 129-144

It is tempting to begin the process of reorganisation by taking a blank sheet of paper and rearranging squares and lines. That should, however, be the last step of the process. Redesigning an organisation involves not only thinking about the same things in a different way, but also thinking...

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Information science: an interdisciplinary effort?

Adam Holland, George - In: Journal of Documentation 64 (2008) 1, pp. 7-23

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the nature of collaboration within information science, to argue for distinct meanings for interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research and to answer two questions: What philosophic distinction can be made between inter‐ and...

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The intellectual foundations of the social market economy

Ebner, Alexander - In: Journal of Economic Studies 33 (2006) 3, pp. 206-223

implications that account for the possibilities of balancing conflicting social interests in the process of integration …

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JIT, system integration and customer service

White, Richard E.; Pearson, John N. - In: International Journal of Physical Distribution & … 31 (2001) 5, pp. 313-333

service policies and integration of these policies into the organizational decision making process. This paper discusses the …, process and information) provide the mechanisms for integration of the various activities across the supply chain. Porter …

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The extended enterprise: a decade later

Spekman, Robert; Davis, Edward W - In: International Journal of Physical Distribution & … 46 (2016) 1, pp. 43-61

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review the state of the art in extended enterprise (EE) thinking. Design/methodology/approach – The approach used the 2004 book, The Extended Enterprise , as the jumping-off point to review the literature and better define the EE. What was once...

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Critical evaluation of project‐based performance management

Parker, D.; Verlinden, A.; Nussey, R.; Ford, M.; … - In: International Journal of Productivity and Performance … 62 (2013) 4, pp. 407-419

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate project‐based management in the context of interventions to initiate improved organisation performance. Design/methodology/approach – The work draws on literature from project management, change management (CM) and performance management....

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An integrated view of project and quality management for project‐based organizations

Orwig, Robert A.; Brennan, Linda L. - In: International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management 17 (2000) 4/5, pp. 351-363

Quality management (QM) has been the purview of operations management for repetitive processes, where project management (PM) is applied to temporary endeavors to create unique products or services. Any convergence of thought between PM and QM has been focused on using PM to implement a total...

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Manufacturing Information Integration Using a Reference Model

Pant, Somendra; Rattner, Laurie; Hsu, Cheng - In: International Journal of Operations & Production Management 14 (1994) 11, pp. 52-72

organizations. To this end, a theory‐based reference model for information integration is needed in manufacturing enterprises … information integration. The model provides both a detailed data and task analysis of manufacturing functions and their … interactions, and guidelines for regrouping tasks into parallel processes and thereby achieving a high level of global integration …

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Project management, interdependencies, and time

Söderlund, Jonas - In: International Journal of Managing Projects in Business 5 (2012) 4, pp. 617-633

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review the content and contributions of the book by Sayles and Chandler entitled Managing Large Systems: Organizations for the Future. The paper seeks to uncover the elements of the nature and elements of project organizing presented in the book....

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Relationships among supply chain strategies, organizational performance, and technological and market turbulences

Arora, Amit; Arora, Anshu Saxena; Sivakumar, K. - In: The International Journal of Logistics Management 27 (2016) 1, pp. 206-232

of collaboration, integration, and transformation, along with market and technological turbulences for more efficient and … collaboration, integration, and transformation and their influence on organizational performance; and explore how the RSCMS …

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