Understanding the sources of sustained competitive advantage is the fundamental task of strategic management research. An interesting concept of fast strategy has emerged, which builds a firm's competitiveness from its ability to react to change more rapidly than its competitors. We approach...

While ISO 9000 has been shown to improve internal metrics of firm performance, external measurements may be unaffected. This thesis examines the economic value of ISO 9000 by assessing the equity returns and risk parameters of 204 firms certified between 1999 and 2002and is the first to examine...

This paper analyzes the impact of logistics and manufacturing outsourcing announcements on shareholder wealth. We assess this impact by measuring the abnormal return (which is the part of the return of a stock not related to market or industry wide movements) of 181 announcements from 1992 to...

This research will evaluate how changes in information latency during computer deployments affect performance of high risk decision makers. High risk decisions and decision-makers, in this case, are police officers deciding whether or not to arrest an individual based on information provided via...

A Supply Network (SN) is a collection of firms that maintain local autonomy but who interact together to fulfill customer requirements. SN researchers have focused on the need to understand the reasons behind the diversity in the number and types of supply networks, as well as how these diverse...

This thesis presents a pilot study conducted to determine the effects of life-cycle costing on completed system properties (performance, cost and time). Life-cycle costing is a costing technique used to determine the long term costs of a system, from the initial research and development through...