Outsourcing Alignment with Business Strategy and Firm Performance

The Impact of IT-Business Strategic Alignment on Firm Performance: The Role of Environmental Uncertainty and Business Strategy

Aligning information technology (IT) strategy with business strategy has been one of the top concerns of practitioners and scholars for decades. Although numerous studies have documented the positive effects of IT-business alignment on organizational performance, few considered the contextual factors that may influence the relationship. This study attempts to fulfill this gap by investigating t...

Strategy-making Process and Firm Performance in Iranian Pharmaceutical Industry

This study investigated the relationship between main dimensions in the strategy-making process, environmental complexity, and performance in pharmaceutical companies of Iran. Results argue that pharmaceutical companies like other industries place differing emphasis on strategy-making and employ different modes of strategy-making. It offers a typology of different modes of strategy-making that ...

Strategy-making Process and Firm Performance in Iranian Pharmaceutical Industry

This study investigated the relationship between main dimensions in the strategy-making process, environmental complexity, and performance in pharmaceutical companies of Iran. Results argue that pharmaceutical companies like other industries place differing emphasis on strategy-making and employ different modes of strategy-making. It offers a typology of different modes of strategy-making that ...

Offshoring, Outsourcing, and Strategy in the Global Firm

Business Strategy, Structure and IT Alignment

The structure of production during the last decade has been changed radically. The importance of design, flexibility, quality, and dependability increased. The main motive behind that restructuring seems to be the qualitative and quantitative diversification of demand (regulatory, technology, and other issues can be mentioned as well). The diversification of demand forced production to be more ...