despite several authors having studied the strategic approach to environmental orientation and,considering that environmental proactivity is emerging in business strategy, it still remains unclear which realactions influence a firm’s environmental orientation. an empirical analysis of a sample of 126 spanish companies shows that firms’ actions are explained as training, information and divulgat...

Business strategy is fundamentally about firm decision-making. Antitrust policy and enforcement, in turn, evaluate the decisions made by firms and the market outcomes that result. To the extent that firms’ decisions will be scrutinized ex post, managers must understand how antitrust concerns might constrain their actions and, thus, suggest alternative optimal decisions. Owing to this importance...

Facing pressures from an increasingly competitive business environment, manufacturing SMEs are called upon to implement strategies that are enabled and supported by information technologies and e-business applications. Based on the Internet and Web technologies, these include applications such as ecommunication, e-commerce, e-business intelligence and e-collaboration. From a contingency theory ...

Ensuring that organizational IT is in alignment with and provides support for an organization s business strategy is critical to business success. We present an integrated approach to requirements engineering for organizational IT. To help validate IT-business strategy alignment, we propose a single model according to Jackson s problem diagram framework to encompass both business strategy and s...

business strategy has been characterized as the manner in which a firm decides to compete which emphasizes the pursuit, achievement and maintenance of competitive advantage in an industry. the main hypothesis of many managerial researchers is that enhanced performance achieves when business try to gain and maintain competitive advantage in compare to rivals. given business strategy position as ...

Received: 13 December 2001 Revised: 27 March 2002 : 26 July 2002 Accepted:15 October 2002 Abstract The business model concept is becoming increasingly popular within IS, management and strategy literature. It is used within many fields of research, including both traditional strategy theory and in the emergent body of literature on e-business. However, the concept is often used independently fr...

Public and industry concerns over food safety have grown considerably over the last decade. Food safety has traditionally been viewed as a “cost of business” (Littlefield, 2006) and, as a result, perceived and positioned as the voluntary responsibility of companies. However, this perception is changing as stricter legislation and industry standards are entered into force and require that compan...