With increased globalisation and offshore sourcing, global supply chain management is becoming an important issue for many businesses. Global supply chain management usually involves a number of different countries, each with its individual challenges that need to be resolved. The purpose of...

The results of this author’s experience of working with over 20 companies in developing and implementing IIS supports the work of Levy and Powell [6]. The IT strategy Template presented in Appendix 1 is based on ideas suggested by Earl [2] and Blili & Raymond [1] has been used as a practical...

En el presente trabajo se analiza el uso de las TIC (Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación) en las responsabilidades de la gestión de la tesorería, tomando como referencia para su estudio las empresas de la CAPV (Comunidad Autónoma del País Vasco). Los resultados indican que las...

The representativeness heuristic generates a decision-bias encouraging over-estimation of the probability of low likelihood events when they are associated with strongly context representative propositions. An experimental investigation into decision making by final year business undergraduates...

Draws together a number of themes from mainstream strategy literature and synthesizes them into a new model of the comprehensively competent organization. Argues that it is a key role of the strategic leader to ensure that his/her organization possesses a wide range of generic competences (to an...

Reinforces the argument that strategic and competitive success demands competence at three levels: content, change and learning. Notes that to achieve this, organizations must draw on a range of generic competences and develop an appropriate mix and measure, and that if they can achieve this...

If CFOs need a blueprint for the next millennium, this is it. A rational, comprehensive view of how to re-shape the corporation and the finance function for the challenges ahead.’ Robert Hoffman, CFO Monsanto ‘A provocative discussion of what the 21st century corporation needs — and how...

This dissertation investigates the factors that explain why managers are held accountable for uncontrollable items of performance. It examines, in particular, the influence of the various determinants of this controllability principle in China, a socialist economy, and compares them with those...

The application of a modified Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) to determine the factors affecting the use of Decision Support Systems (DSS) in strategic decisionmaking in local authorities in both the UK and Egypt was the main core of this research. Although the use of DSS has become widespread...

As the UK’s retail financial services sector discovers the value of retaining customers it is also becoming aware that product elimination has the potential to damage existing purchasing relationships. Unlike physical goods, where elimination is often undertaken with scant regard for the...