Maybe an event can't be modeled completely through one game but there is more chance with several games. With emphasis on players' rationality, we present new properties of strategic games, which result in production of other games. Here, a new attitude to modeling will be presented in game theory as dynamic system of strategic games and its some applications such as analysis of the clash betwe...

This study examines the role of knowledge management capacity in the relationship between strategic human resource practices and innovation performance from the knowledge-based view. This study uses regression analysis to test the hypotheses in a sample of 146 firms. The results indicate that strategic human resource practices are positively related to knowledge management capacity which, in tu...

While several studies have examined the role of strategic alliances in outsourcing, as a way to manage the client-vendor relationship, no systematic attempt has been made to integrate the knowledge from the strategic management literature. The study contributes to this line of research, by developing a framework that weaves the Relational-Theory View with the outsourcing literature. This synthe...

This paper presents the results of a study exploring the relationship between strategic policy options and broad-based manufacturing competitive capabilities. The results represent the views of 213 managers on the manufacturing capabilities and strategic directions of their own business units. The findings indicate several relationships between the two conceptual domains. Among the various type...

Drawing on the emerging perspective of IT-enabled organizational capability, we suggest that operational agility and strategic flexibility in tandem with IT competency have a significant effect on firm performance in fast-cycle industries. We identify specific IT competencies and present a model that describes operational agility and strategic flexibility as mediating variables in the relations...

Nowadays, as the trend of establishing strategic allied relationship between channel members has reinforced, information sharing has became an important method of upholding relationship of channel members and improving relationship quality. This paper selects some distributors of Haier as the research object, applies structural equation model to the research of relationship among information sh...

AIM The aim of this study was to describe how clinician and non-clinician managers achieved consensus of strategy in hospitals. This was the first empirical study undertaken that investigated the impact of organizational commitment on the strategic involvement-strategic consensus relationship. BACKGROUND Clinicians and non-clinician managers hold a pivotal role in health care management from ...

Strategic Information Systems Planning (SISP) is an important activity for strategic use of IS/IT in today’s dynamic and increasingly digitalized organisations. However, SISP is not a very straight forward task as it entails simultaneous multiple planning views as well as changing environmental and organisational issues. Although SISP has been widely studied, to date theory on SISP facilitators...