Increasingly organizations are participating in networked value constellations, which are networks where organizations, enabled by information technology, jointly create value and satisfy customer needs. However, participating in a networked value constellation increases the problem of correctly understanding the organization, which is necessary to design (cross)-organizational IT support. Ther...

Although knowledge has emerged as the strategic resource of the firm in the increasingly turbulent and dynamic environment, it is underestimated how knowledge management (KM) contributes to sustained competitive advantage of the firm over time. Drawing upon a coevolutionary view of alignment, this study examines a strategic KM coevolutionary mechanism in which KM strategy, processes, and infras...

Small firms’ use of e-business is limited and little is known about what drives small businesses (SMEs) to embrace e-business. It first discusses different growth strategies adopted by SMEs and reviews Internet adoption in SMEs. Drivers and inhibitors of e-business are identified. Three research questions are derived does strategic intent drive e-business adoption and is it a factor of market p...

In manufacturing operations it is important to recognise the capabilities of the firm and established ways to position the current and expected manufacturing capabilities. The most recognised tool is the Product-Process matrix of Hayes and Wheelwright. Similarly, in service business there is a growing need to position the capabilities of firms. Many tools analysing services have also been propo...

Our study concerns bargaining behavior in situations where one party is in a stronger position than the other. We investigate both the tradeoff the favored party makes between pursuing his strategic advantage and giving weight to other players’ concern for fairness, and the tradeoff the disadvantaged player makes between pursuing a fair outcome from a disadvantaged position and the cost of that...

The main objective of this chapter is to define a set of strategic lines, from the public policy point of view, so that Portuguese suppliers of the auto industry can deploy a strategic alignment throughout the supply chain in order to position themselves as potential suppliers of the global sourcing strategy of their Iberian Peninsula clients. The characterization of the auto industry in Portug...

Nowadays, environmental management is being increasingly seen as an important management task. Indeed, the integration of environmental concerns into business functions can allow companies to find new opportunities and to reduce their risks and liabilities. Consequently, being a possible noteworthy determinative of companies’ competitive position, with the capability to ensure or even increase ...

This article presents an overview of the Essex Wizards 2001 team participated in the RoboCup 2001 simulator league. Four major issues have been addressed, namely a generalized approach to position selection, strategic planning and encoded communication, reinforcement learning (RL) and Kanerva-based generalization, as well as the agent architecture and agent behaviours.

This paper explores the linkage between strategic grouping and performance of the Indian banking sector. Strategic grouping and performance were identified using published financial information for all public sector banks. Grouping of Indian public sector banks following comparable financial strategy – with similar asset quality, operational efficiency and profitability – was operationalized us...