Management consulting firms play a crucial role in companies' strategic and organizational activities. In business practice, however, they are often criticized for providing inferior solutions due to the deficiencies in the client-consultant interactions. In this paper, we study the effects of...

This paper introduces a newsvendor approach for capacity planning of information and communication technologies (ICT), in particular the hardware. Contrary to the reference models in computer sciences, which are primarily concerned with technical aspects and a high system utilization, this...

This paper explores long-term partnership benefits of local strategic alliances in knowledge-intensive industries. A structural model of the value continuum is formulated and tested on small and mid-size enterprises in the software industry. Partial least squares path analysis is used to...

This paper explores the long-term partnership benefits of local strategic alliances in the software industry. A structural model of the value continuum is formulated and tested on data from small and midsize enterprises in Germany. Partial Least Squares Analysis is used to investigate the...