Antecedents to strategic flexibility

Middle Management Strategic Roles: Strategic Role Conflict and its Antecedents

DEDICATION To my children Blake, Natalie, and Matthew Remember: you can always choose a different path! v ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to express my deep appreciation and gratitude to my advisor, Dr. Bill Wooldridge, for the patient guidance and mentorship he provided to me, all the way from when I was first arrived to the PhD program, through the completion of this degree. Dr. Wooldridge's in...

Strategic Flexibility in Mating Intelligence

Accessing Antecedents of Supply Chain Flexibility and Supply Chain Integration

This paper empirically examines the impact of environmental uncertainty, IT enablers and interorganizational relationships on supply chain flexibility and supply chain integration. Based on the data collected from 196 organizations, multiple regression analyses are used to test the factors impacting supply chain flexibility and supply chain integration respectively. It was found that commitment...

System Development Team Flexibility: its Antecedents and Project Performance

Surveys on system development (SD) project performance suggest that while much improvement has been made in SD technology, the project success rate remains low. SD research based on the socio-technical perspective suggests that three sources of socio-technical change have a bearing on the performance of SD projects: business requirements, development technology, and development procedures. To e...

I. Strategic, Economic and Flexibility Aspects

This is a report of a study on the evolution of manufacturing technology policy during the deployment of domestic advanced manufacturing systems in thirty-four plants and two panels of data collection separated by one year. Changing firm environment was significantly correlated with pioneering product introduction business strategy (p < 0.05). More importantly, it was found that manufacturing t...