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Strategy Issues

Exploring the relationships between tangible and intangible resources in a learning alliance dynamics

Exploring the relationships between tangible and intangible resources in a learning alliance dynamics: comment on the paper by Kapmeier Autore: Enzo Bivona Kapmeier (2008) focuses his research on common learning and firms’ opportunistic behaviour in learning alliances. A strategic alliance, as clearly stated by Gulati (1998: 293), is a voluntary arrangement between firms to exchange […]

Operational and financial effectiveness of e-collaboration tools in supply chain integration

Autori: Adolfo Crespo Marquez, Carmine Bianchi, and Jatinder N. D. Gupta This paper develops a comprehensive model of supply chain integration and uses it to analyze and assess the operational and financial effectiveness of different e-collaboration tools at various levels of supply chain integration. This model is also used to evaluate the importance of the […]

The @Corp Case: Enhancing co-operation among managers of different business units

Autori: Vaidotas Sruogis, Pål I. Davidsen, Enzo Bivona The @Corp case study concerns a high-technology manufacturing company. It is based on qualitative and quantitative data collected through interviews and written reports. In this paper, we discuss some of misperceptions shared by the strategic business unit (SBU) management. The SBU managers claimed to know various components […]