Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to understand how buyers and suppliers in supply chains learn to align their performance objectives and incentives through contracting. Design/methodology/approach: Two longitudinal case studies of the process of supply chain alignment were conducted based...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore intra-firm coordination in temporary organizations (TOs). Specifically, it identifies and explains how operational coordination evolves over time in a particular TO: the 2016 Olympic Games Organizing Committee. Design/methodology/approach: This...

Purpose: To empirically examine the usefulness and value of supply chain mapping (SC mapping), which has been neglected despite its importance in research and practice. Design/methodology/approach: Based on three combined theoretical perspectives, we conducted a case study on a car...

Full-text of this article is not available in this e-prints service. This article was originally published following peer-review in International Journal of Technology Management, published by and copyright Inderscience Publishers.

This article examines the way in which identity workspaces function to facilitate and stimulate transitions at mid-career. We explore our collective experience as a cohort of a mid-career management academics participating in a 2-year fellowship program, which acted as an identity workspace in...

A technical basis for the definition of services, using the so-called IHIP characteristics, is rejected in favour of one based on institutional arrangements. Mundane Transaction Costs and the notion of qualification are discussed in relation to making services tradable. The evolution of the...