(VF)Les recherches en stratégie questionnent de plus en plus l’importance du facteur spatial pour le développement des groupes. Ce texte s’inscrit dans cette approche en analysant deux facteurs de contingence complémentaires. D’une part, il s’agit d’analyser la répartition spatiale...

(VF)La démarche stratégique connaît à l’heure actuelle une évolution importante induite en particulier par le processus de globalisation qui concerne entre autres la vie socio-économique marquée par une complexité rapidement croissante, ainsi que par les exigences d’un développement...

The article analyzes the performance measurement processes within the small medium-sized enterprises that run businesses in Romania's tourism sector. Related to contemporary approaches to improving business performance in the management literature, performance measurement approaches are analyzed...

The paper analyses the relationship between sustainable development, regionalism and strategic orientation in one of the least developed Romanian regions, South-West Oltenia. Based on a questionnaire filled in by a sample of managers from the region, the perception on business strengths and...

During the last decades companies compete in a highly volatile globalized environment due to international competition and the development of new business approaches. Globalization has transformed the historic patterns of investment, production and distribution of firms and organizations....

Purpose – The development of strategic supply chain mapping techniques has been slowed by four critical issues. The purpose of this paper is to answer a call to address supply chain mapping techniques and issues. It offers recommendations for more readable and useful strategic supply chain...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to research the nature of supply chain strategy (SCS). It represents one stage of an on‐going research initiative aimed at providing a framework for systematic understanding of the linkages between corporate strategy (CS) making and supply chain...

Suggests that the concepts of partnerships and strategic alliances are increasingly emphasized in literature and “real life”, which might lead managers to believe that partnership‐style relationships, as opposed to arm′s length relationships, are necessary for a firm to compete...

Progressively acknowledged as a systemic function and an organizational integration factor, logistics is slowly becoming a major strategic issue for organizations. Small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs), defined as enterprises with fewer than 500 employees and management centralized...

Despite calls for more theoretical and strategically oriented work in logistics, the resource‐based theory of the firm (RBT), and the related capabilities approach ‐ which represent a dominant stream of research in strategic management over the last decade ‐ have not been prominent in the...