La exterrnalización es una estrategia que está cada vez más de moda en las empresas. Por lo que se hace necesario la existencia de un marco teórico consistente que permita a los directivos discernir cuando una actividad debe estar externalizada y cuando retenerla internamente. Para ello, en...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide business executives with a practical and systematic way of preparing for board member questions on the shareholder value of proposed strategic initiatives. Design/methodology/approach – The authors observe that previous work has shown how...

This paper aims to use institutional theory to explore the role of humanresource (HR) practices as carriers in the evolution of interdependent supplyrelationships. Design/methodology/approach – This is a qualitative study of aninter-firm supply relationship where the two partners were...

This paper aims to explore the influence of human resource (HR) practices inshaping inter-organisational supply relationships, and to describe the extent towhich supply partners seek to adapt their internal HR practices to the externalrelationship. Design/methodology/approach -...