Knowledge is recognized as one of the most important and valuable management assets because knowledge enables organizations to utilize and develop resources, enhance their competitiveness and develop sustainable competitive advantage. A number of knowledge management approaches have been developed with the purpose of managing organizational knowledge. However, these approaches only focus on man...

The increased importance of knowledge creation and use to firms’ global competitiveness has spawned considerable experimentation with organizational designs for product development and commercialization over the last three decades. This paper discusses innovation-related organizational design developments during this period, showing how firms have moved from stand-alone organizations to multifi...

An analysis of how to improve costs must include a discussion of how firms create and manage cross-organizational relationships. An important part of improved cost competitiveness may very well center on a firm’s ability to develop and manage inter-firm relationships that lead to the creation of new value within the supply chain. An earlier study by the Harvard Business School confirmed that a ...

Outsourcing is promoted as one of the most powerful trends in modern management. The rationale for outsourcing some functions and/or processes includes substantial financial economies, increased ability to focus on strategic issues, access to technology and specialized expertise, and an ability to demand measurable and improved service levels. This paper considers a range of core issues related...

In this paper, we describe a framework for measuring costs and performance in new forms of business organization that are evolving to meet the competitive challenges of the 21st century. A literature review on cost management and performance measures in advanced manufacturing and service organizations provides the basis for our framework. The framework emphasizes measurement of costs and perfor...

This research draws on banking sector data to explore the role of leadership actions in facilitating successful implementation of automatic teller machines (ATMs) and Internet Banking in Egyptian private sector banking. IT-related innovations in everyday business functions have elicited a great many reforms in the Egyptian banking sector since the 1990s. Achieving strategic competitiveness thro...

Knowledge has become the most strategic resource in the new business environment. A case-based reasoning system, which incorporates a novel clustering and retrieval method, has been developed for identifying critical situations in business processes. The proposed method is based on a Cooperative Maximum Likelihood Hebbian Learning model, which can be used to categorize the necessities for the A...

Supply chain management (SCM) is the 21st century global operations strategy for achieving organizational competitiveness. Companies are attempting to find ways to improve their flexibility and responsiveness and in turn competitiveness by changing their operations strategy, methods and technologies that include the implementation of SCM paradigm and information technology (IT). However, a thor...

The study explores the impact of ecological supply chain management practices such as Green Supply Chain, environmental and operational organizational performance in Ghana. was measured based upon three parameters constituting Sustainable Environmental Performance (SENP), Economic (SECP), Competitiveness (COMP). Exogenous factors included constructs Chain Management (SSCM) single-item construct...

Numerous studies have examined the relationship between organizational cultures; knowledge management, organizational performance and competitiveness, merely a handful of studies have examined the relationship between a specific organizational culture and knowledge management. There is little research done on the relationship between organization culture and knowledge management in the private ...