STRATEGIC ENTREPRENEURSHIP, COLLABORATIVE INNOVATION, AND WEALTH CREATION DAVID J. KETCHEN, JR.,* R. DUANE IRELAND, and CHARLES C. SNOW Department of Management, College of Business, Auburn University, Auburn Alabama, U.S.A. Department of Management, Mays Business School, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, U.S.A. Department of Management and Organization, Smeal College of Business, T...

Engineering asset management (EAM) is a broad discipline with distributed functions and services. When engineering assets are capital intensive, management requires specialized expertise for diagnosis, prognosis, maintenance and repairs. The current practice of EAM relies on self maintained experiential rules with coordinated collaboration and outsourcing for maintenance and repairs. In order t...

ment of new technologies have a deep impact on the development and the positioning of companies on international marketplaces. In addition, customers are more demanding in term of quality, lead time and order fulfilment. Firms must anticipate customers’ requests and adapt to market changes. This quest for flexibility and reactivity affects the conception and the management of firms and more gen...

Recent global economic meltdown has opened many avenues of discussion and leaving various questions with its affects. One of them is fate of quality management and its necessity during and after the economic recession. It is established fact that management commitment is one of the most critical success factors to achieve best possible results of quality management implementation. So quality of...

An increasing number of global organizations have adopted knowledge management practices and implemented worldwide knowledge management systems utilizing global communication networks and collaborative technology. The existing literature on knowledge management has focused on a common, firm-wide approach to knowledge sharing. Substantial differences exist, however, among the sub-units within ma...

An increasing number of global organizations have adopted knowledge management practices and implemented worldwide knowledge management systems utilizing global communication networks and collaborative technology. The existing literature on knowledge management has focused on a common, firm-wide approach to knowledge sharing. Substantial differences exist, however, among the sub-units within ma...

BACKGROUND Quality Management is one of the most effective strategies for improving the health systems performance in developed and developing countries. The main goal of this study was identifying the most important aspects of quality management and preparing an appropriate model for health system. METHOD This research was a comparative study on quality management models in the health system...

We are in an era of knowledge economy [3,4] and knowledge-based competition [2]. In this era, an organization must be able to secure various types of knowledge assets and maximize their strategic value. To do so, many organizations have begun to reexamine and rearrange their business strategies, process, information technologies, and organizational structures from a knowledge perspective [1]. T...

To help improve customer satisfaction management (CRM), greater emphasis is given to the aspect of quality in the supply chain. And improve supply chain performance through integrated business management and strategic partnerships. On the other hand, strategic supply chain management decisions are made at a company level that determine benefits and efficiencies of the supply chain and effective...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the integration of quality assurance and strategic management in higher education. The study presents the concept of the quality map, which is a graphical representation of the quality assurance system. The quality map explicitly takes into account the environment, strategic planning and the internal processes of the organisation. The quality map help...