... for adopting the ISO 9000 standard and examines their effects on firms' performance. ISO 9000 series Corporate strategy Quality systems Senior managers Middle managers Australia Daniel I. Prajogo can be contacted at: daniel.prajogo@buseco.monash.edu.au © Emerald Group Publishing Limited...

... approaches to consider business‐to‐business relationships, where firms can support their competitive advantages through the organization of value chains, whether they are geographically close or not. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Globalization Supply chain management Corporate...

... that combine a dynamic framework of constructs for implementing strategic initiatives with leading deployment practices. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Operations management Corporate strategy Quality management Performance management Business excellence All organisations...

... 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 ; Zhao et al., 2002...

... and priorities of the organization are widely divergent. Automotive industry Corporate strategy Operations management Business failures The start of the second automotive century has been interesting for the global motor industry. The industry has seen both record profits and losses, as well...

... Limited 2005 Corporate strategy Operations and production management Competitive strategy Further Reading Oliva , R. and Kallenberg , R. (2003), “ Managing the transition from products to services ”, International Journal of Service Industry Management , Vol. 14 No. 2...

... of concepts such as “flexibility”, “integration”, and “just‐in‐time production”. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Corporate strategy Production planning Productive capacity Thus, despite the previous efforts, the reasons behind the dearth of industrial applications for aggregate...

..., it is likely that the dependent variable in the regression analysis is a robust representation that measures what it purports to measure. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Corporate strategy Leadership Business process re‐engineering Information systems The challenge...

... The findings point to new and promising avenues for enriching and elaborating contemporary theories of operations strategy. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Corporate strategy Manufacturing industries Manufacturing resource planning Much of the literature and studies addressing...

... integration strategies ”, Academy of Management Review , Vol. 9 No. 4 , pp. 638 ‐ 52 . Harrigan , K.R. (1985a), “ Vertical integration and corporate strategy ”, Academy of Management Journal , Vol. 28 No. 2 , pp. 397 ‐ 425 . Harrigan , K.R. (1985b), “ Exit barriers and vertical...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Virtual organizations Corporate strategy Manufacturing industries Intellectual capital Intangible assets Features of the contemporary global economy include increased emphasis on inter‐enterprise collaboration within networked supply systems...

... manufactured exports for the first time in almost a century, and this imbalance persisted for 10 of the next 12 years …. Several of the country's key industries were sent reeling by the onslaught of foreign competition” (Hayes and Wheelwright, 1984, p. 1). Corporate strategy Operations and production...

... that companies should go beyond looking to align capabilities with the marketplace. Manufacturing should seek to influence corporate strategies and to develop and exploit manufacturing capability proactively as a competitive weapon. The Platts and Gregory[ 7 ] approach also focuses on“identifying the current...

... of the problem is often rooted in a company′s failure to debate corporate strategy. But, past actions are not the only way in which the status quo had been reinforced. Current strategic research and publicized approaches to developing corporate strategy also put forward the provision of functional statements...

..., station wagon) together, instead of in the traditional stepped fashion. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Corporate strategy Flexibility Flexible manufacturing systems Flexifactories Honda Motor industry Production methods What do we mean by “flexifactory”? A flexifactory is a factory...

...K.C. Chan Details the Intelligent Corporate Strategy model which attempts to bring pragmatism into the many and varied strategic management models,which are often too sophisticated or too theoretical for the real world. It bridges the corporate level and business level, links the marketing strategy...

... in a newly industrialized economy (NIE). In particular, highlights the finding that while almost all operations managers in the sample perceive that manufacturing can and should contribute to overall corporate strategy,their view of the role of manufacturing is that it should primarily be reactive vis...