.... the degree of similarity or dissimilarity between successive integration tasks. In other words, if each ETI project is unique it will therefore provide little or no opportunity for the firm to learn from past experience. Technology led strategy Product development Integration Management strategy...

... Costs Process management Technology led strategy Supplier relations Operations improvement often depends on process innovations and, in particular, on technological innovations. To date studies of innovations have tended to concentrate on the adoption of innovations by individuals or single...

... to apply the “operations‐as‐marketing” paradigm to the strategic objectives of IT investment decisions, and it addresses a notable void in extant research by exploring a possible strategic link between IT and market orientation. Communication technologies Technology led strategy Lean production...

... Technology led strategy Costs Greece A “quality system” consists of a set of fixed business procedures and rules aiming to ensure that a product, process or service meets a pre‐determined and widely acknowledged set of standards (Vloeberghs and Bellens, 1996). Quality assurance, an industrial...

... Publishing Limited 2004 Operations management Technology led strategy Strategic management Multinational companies Expatriates Employee attitudes Figures 1, 2, and 3 outline the relationships studied. The following hypotheses (H‐E for Expatriation; H‐R for Repatriation) are tested...

... management Technology led strategy Australia Case studies The importance of adoption and use of supply chain management enabling technologies has been a common theme in the literature in this field. The idea of using technology to connect trading partners through closer links between information...

... Group Publishing Limited 2004 Manufacturing industries Working practices Decision making Technology led strategy Technology affects competitive advantage and industry structure, and can worsen as well as improve a firm's competitive position (Porter, 1985). Technologies...

... and job shop) markets and organizational arrangements. The companies also had different prior experiences with manufacturing and IT. The business profiles of the four companies are detailed in Table I . © MCB UP Limited 2003 Resource management Project management Technology led strategy...