... to the formation of supplier innovation triads that are often governed by a portfolio of strategic alliances. The purpose of this paper is to explore how leaders’ inter-firm relationships and strategic alliances influence the development of supplier innovation triads. The sample of firms in the Toyota...

... Strategic alliances ERPII ERPIII Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems for manufacturing organisations have developed extensively over recent decades in response to changing business requirements, technological developments, and new organizational strategies (Palaniswamy and Frank, 2000...

...Evelyne Vanpoucke; Kenneth K. Boyer; Ann Vereecke Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify different information flow strategies to enhance integration in strategic alliances and studies these strategies with respect to contextual factors and the impact on performance. Design...

... or indeed internal partners, is something that is not often covered in the operations management literature. Supply chain management Strategic alliances Strategic management Operations management © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Robert Johnston can be contacted at: bob.johnston...

... and researchers. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Operation management Strategic alliances Service industries Globalization Manufacturing industries The contribution of the service sector to the gross national product has increased in both industrialized nations and developing...

...Andrew Taylor Purpose To explore alliance managers' perceptions of the most significant determinants of strategic alliance success in the software sector. Design/methodology/approach The study is based on 30 key informant interviews and a survey of 143 alliance managers. Findings While...