... companies are undertaking outsourcing projects and identifies factors that may facilitate or impede outsourcing projects. In addition, this article examines the relationships between outsourcing strategies and organizational performance. The results show that organizations generally considered themselves...

...,capabilities are not bought and sold, but built by skilled managers, who foster their growth by developing interconnected resource stocks. A process model is presented and implications for both managers and researchers are discussed. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Competitive advantage Organizational...

...Kenneth L. Kraft; Lawrence R. Jauch A procedure to assess organizational effectiveness is proposed in this paper. An OE “menu” of optionsis set out by which organizational performance can be measured. By using such a menu, managers’ decision making, planning, and communicating with internal...