Empirical and theoretical perspectives in sales and operations planning

Constructive Engagement in Sales and Operations planning

Long-term capacity management: Linking the perspectives from manufacturing strategy and sales and operations planning

E$cient long-term capacity management is vital to any manufacturing "rm. It has implications on competitive performance in terms of cost, delivery speed, dependability and #exibility. In a manufacturing strategy, capacity is a structural decision category, dealing with dynamic capacity expansion and reduction relative to the long-term changes in demand levels. Sales and operations planning (S&O...

IT capabilities: theoretical perspectives and empirical operationalization

With increased emphasis on the strategic role of IT in contemporary organizations, it is imperative to gain a deeper understanding of the factors that govern a firm’s IT capability. Yet, there exists very little understanding as to what constitutes a firm’s IT capability and how it could be measured. Drawing from theoretical perspectives and a systematic multi-stage research framework based on ...

Temporal reference : empirical and theoretical perspectives

This thesis investigates the expression of temporal reference – the location of eventualities (states and events) in time – in natural languages by looking at four languages: English, French, Italian and Romanian. It is suggested that temporal reference is determined at the discursive level through a large variety of linguistic and pragmatic means. Among the linguistic means there are the gramm...

Regional resilience: theoretical and empirical perspectives

Susan Christopherson, Jonathan Michie and Peter Tyler Department of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University, 106 Sibley Dome, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA, [email protected] Department for Continuing Education and Kellogg College, University of Oxford, 62 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6PN, UK, [email protected] Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, 19 Silver Street, Ca...