Strategic project management (SPM) has become a well-known management method for aligning projects with strategy. Despite it is increasingly widespread use in various industry sectors, fundamentally systematic research on the SPM model is still scarce. Given that past research has not...

Project management and project portfolio management (PPM) foster competitiveness by facilitating the implementation of organizational strategy. Although organizations often struggle to develop PPM capabilities, the academic community does not have an in-depth understanding of the conditions for...

Organizational integration between intra- and inter-organizational subsystems is an important factor of operational coordination, innovation, and strategic effectiveness. Scholars have mainly focused on the organizational integration of three sub-systems: production/operations, marketing/sales,...

The purpose of this study is to extend the current understanding of business divestiture by investigating its potential for triggering strategic reorientation. A divestiture involving strategic reorientation is here denoted as a strategic business exit, otherwise it is a status...

The paper shows how traditional organizational structures within the productionsector, such as quality circles, learning groups (“Lernstatt”) and projectteams reflect the constructivist and postmodern concepts of strategic managementwith their wide ignorance of purely plan deterministic...

Der vorliegende Beitrag zeigt, dass die Festlegung der Fertigungstiefein der Gegenstromplanung von Strategien kein stringentes Instrumentder Unternehmensführung ist. Die Top-Down und Bottom-Up Analyseüber die hierarchischen Ebenen der Unternehmens-, Wettbewerbs- undFunktionalstrategie liefert...

Nationale rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen beeinflussen die Möglichkeiten für wirtschaftliche Aktivitäten multinationaler Unternehmen (MNU) in einem Gastland und der Koordination zwischen den Unternehmensteilen in verschiedenen Ländern. Sie sind damit wichtige Bestimmungsfaktoren für...

International stehen Forderungen im Raum, die betriebswirtschaftliche Ausbildung so auszurichten, dass sie der gesellschaftlichen Verantwortung von Unternehmen einen systematischen Stellenwert beimisst. Der hierfür erforderliche Dialog zwischen BWL und Unternehmensethik kommt jedoch derzeit...

The paper shows how traditional organizational structures within the production sector, such as quality circles, learning groups ("Lernstatt") and project teams reflect the constructivist and postmodern concepts of strategic management with their wide ignorance of purely plan deterministic...