(WP09/02 Clave pdf) This study addresses the issue of what are the key success factors in developing strategic supplier alliances following Monczka et al(1998) perspective of the buying company. Data from 56 different supplier alliances had been collected in Spanish companies.The results show...

(WP07/02 Clave pdf) One important reason behind total quality management implementation failure has been attributed to the poor understanding of the interdependence between quality management practices and competitive capabilities. Despite, ample literature on total quality management (TQM)...

(WP06/02 Clave pdf) The increasing complexity of a manufacturer´s environment is driving the evolution of the industrial management mindset towards a new post-industrial management paradigm. More and more it is becoming critical for a manufacturer´s competitiveness and survival to...

(WP08/02 Clave pdf) There is a growing interest in empirical research in operations management. The Q-sort method, which is a method of assessing reliability and construct validity of questionnaire items at a pre-testing stage, is described. The method is cost efficient and simple, yet provides...

This study aims to gain a better understanding of key business processes. The processes of the firm are analyzed, proposing a classification of eight generic intra-organizational processes, and eleven generic inter-organizational processes, as well as criteria for the determination of the...

Se describe un proyecto de logística financiado por el gobierno español con el objetivo de proponer medios para la mejora de la logística de la competitividad. Una parte clave del proyecto era evaluar el estado actual de la logística y las prácticas de la cadena de suministro en el país, y...

In today´s more complex multinational and technologically sophisticated environment, the group has re-emerged in importance as the project team. Work teams are important to organizations in general, but are especially critical in product development because they span many functional areas...

Previous research has found that temporary contracts delay marriage and fertility in Spain. Using newly released administrative data we have studied the motivations behind the fertility delay that is associated with job protection. We have found that during the first five years after the birth...

This article examines the value-creation capacity of intra-platform competition (IPC) and exclusivity; two main strategies platforms use to incentivize, accumulate and extract rent from complementary content resources - complementors. Building on the concept of ´resource functionality´ we...

This project is supported financially by the CICYT research grants # 01-0657 and SEJ-2004-08176-C02-01. I would like to thank Jose Carlos Molina for assisting with the management of the database. Previous versions of this paper were presented at the Annual Congress of the European Accounting...