... achieve great financial and non-financial impacts. Sustainability Business strategy Operations strategy Retail sector Supply chain management Reverse logistics In the current economic climate, many retailers are struggling to survive. Product returns are one of the major factors...

... new problems and challenges that evolve from complexity growth driven by business strategy. Despite significant investment in PM processes, training and professional bodies of knowledge (e.g. APM, 2012 ; PMI, 2017), it is widely acknowledged that project performance levels remain...

... of an environmentally friendly innovation due to Israel’s recognized innovation capability (Senor and Singer, 2009). However, we mostly focus on the design features devised by the company to deal with adoption due to the early lifecycle stage of the innovation. Innovation Sustainability Business strategy Case...

...Sohrab Khalili Shavarini; Hossain Salimian; Jamshid Nazemi; Mahmood Alborzi Purpose The purpose of this paper here is to present an operational model that establishes the necessary relationship between business strategy and operations strategy. Accordingly, managers are enabled to define strategic...

...Stefan Hoejmose; Stephen Brammer; Andrew Millington Purpose This paper aims to explore the effect of business strategy on socially responsible supply chain management (SR‐SCM). Design/methodology/approach This study draws on data from 178 UK‐based companies, and 340 buyer‐supplier...

...Rodney McAdam; Brian Bailie The aim of this paper is to explore the longitudinal alignment between performance measures and business strategy. Moreover, the paper will probe the role of business improvement models as a key catalyst in this alignment process. Since the late 1980s performance...

... and medium enterprises” (Antonio, 2000). © MCB UP Limited 2002 Supply‐chain management Green issues Environmental audit Business strategy Recent studies have shown that a majority of world’s manufacturing will be carried out in Asia in the next couple of decades (Sector Based Public...

... are generally followed, there is a lack of alignment between the manufacturing strategy and the business strategy. The leader companies, by far, performed better than the lagger companies in adopting best manufacturing practices related to factory operations. The hypothesis to be tested here...

... employ highly aggregated concepts which mix together operational priorities, outcomes, and capabilities, making hierarchical relationships in strategy difficult to define. Develops and proposes a new framework which modifies existing models of business strategy and manufacturing strategy in order...