in recent years, there has been a great concern about strategic supply chain management. the supply chain configuration approach is related to strategic management of material and information flows. most of suggested configurations in the part of strategic direction are based on environmental factors and structure-conduct-performance approach. exploring supply chain configuration with emphasis ...

The dynamic capabilities framework analyzes the sources and methods of wealth creation and capture by private enterprise firms operating in environments of rapid technological change. The competitive advantage of firms is seen as resting on distinctive processes (ways of coordinating and combining), shaped by the firm’s (specific) asset positions (such as the firm’s portfolio of difficult-to-tr...

This paper proposes a model that suggests how firms could create strategic capabilities through IT outsourcing. We suggest how a firm adds value and reaps strategic benefits from IT outsourcing arrangements. A primary proposition is that, in the process of penetration of the managerial and technical capabilities of external vendors, managerial and social factors act as facilitators or inhibitor...

Abstract The vision of network-centric operations is to increase operational capabilities through networked collaboration. NATO and its member nations state this in strategic documents at a very high level abstraction. While suitable for giving an overall feel, current documentation renders the steps toward implementing those visions largely unsupported. We outline method that based on agile re...

Consistent with insights on the joint deployment of capabilities to exploit digital technologies for strategic innovations, recent works re-conceptualize such “dynamic” capabilities as bundles of capabilities. By analyzing the empirical case of German daily quality newspaper organizations, which failed to fully exploit the strategic potential of emerging digital technologies and entered a sever...

with regard to the importance of technological developments, senior enterprise managers should be aware of their organization's technological capabilities, changes and developments in the world, and also have information from their rivals' efforts in achieving new technologies, to be in line of their organization's technology developments. therefore a technological needs assessment model, is de...