... Nair can be contacted at: nair@moore.sc.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Change management Emergent strategy Operations management Strategic alignment Competitive analysis To understand the need for a typology of alignments between operations strategy and industry...

... Operations management China Competitive analysis Corporate strategy Distribution management In recent years, an increasing number of studies have examined the conceptual and theoretical development of operations strategies (Boyer and Pagell, 2000 ; Ward and Duray, 2000 ; Spina and Zotteri, 2001...

... Manufacturing industries Brazil Automotive industry Competitive analysis Over the last couple of decades, scholars interested in Latin America and emerging economies in general have devoted increased attention to the study of firm competitiveness (Austin, 2002 ; Carrera et al., 2003...

... Competitive analysis Operational research Viewed in this perspective, the alignment between functional‐level supply chain capability and corporate‐level competitive capability is very significant. Watts et al. (1995) emphasize that the SCM function should play an important role in shaping...