A mechanism for rapidly developing presence in the global marketplace is through forming relationships with other organizations in different countries. These joint ventures or strategic alliances have a number of benefits that accrue to the various partners in the relationship. The difficulty is...

The purpose of this paper is to provide a theory-based explanation for the emerging managerial role set within supply chain networks. As managing within supply networks requires a portfolio of capabilities, the emerging managerial role set is explained utilizing a combined knowledge-based view...

As organizations move into the 21st century, past measures of organizational performance based largely on accounting and financial statements will be insufficient to meaningfully assess value. Short- and long-term performance will be increasingly determined by three resources: ideas,...

The learning organization has been heralded as a proactive structure to address the amount and rate of change facing businesses today. A learning culture provides managers with the information and analyses necessary to modify their organizations to satisfy both internal and external...

Market orientation has been cited as a source of competitive advantage that allows the firm to construct offerings superior to those of competitors by the effective collection and dissemination of and reaction to market intelligence. Previous work on market orientation has focused on the effort...