Gender-based violence (GBV) is a significant human rights violation and a key driver of the HIV epidemic in southern and eastern Africa. We frame GBV from a broad human rights approach that includes intimate partner violence and structural violence. We use this broader definition to review how National Strategic Plans for HIV and AIDS (NSPs) in southern and eastern Africa address GBV. NSPs for ...

Purpose – Drawing on a network perspective on enterprise agility, the purpose of this paper is to explore whether firms with superior network structure not only may be better able to generate direct effect on firm performance, but whether a superior network structure may also help firms to create better firm agility and thus enhance their performance. Design/methodology/approach – The study emp...

Strategic planning is an essential part of establishing the Air Force’s direction. Using a group support system for strategic planning is one avenue to make effective use of technology and improve the strategic planning process. This research implements a group support system (GSS) as a facilitation tool to improve the strategic planning process at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho with the...

the knowledge of public administration which is considered as an inter-disciplinary field is one of the most important fields of human sciences, which focuses on the study of organizing governments. this field and its curriculum will highly affect many of the human beings and their future. this field has resulted in a requirement for using the collaboration and cooperation of several scientific...

Improvements in software processes can improve software quality, cost, and on-time delivery. Supplementing strategic software release planning with fine grain operational planning provides project managers the tools and abilities to make timely decisions affecting the project. Strategic planning of software releases is accomplished by the assignment of requirements to releases on a strategic le...

This study reports on the testing of the hypothesis that there is a positive relationship between business strategy and innovativeness. Business strategy is defined here to include market focus strategy, technology development strategy, and operations priorities including cost, quality, delivery / dependability, and flexibility. An empirical study is conducted based on data collected using a qu...

Clinical service line strategies are popular in community health system business development planning and management. Specific clinical service lines are indentified for growth, development and strategic investments such as specialized facilities and clinical and information technologies. Physician recruiting plans are developed along specialty service lines to support these strategies; e.g., c...

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to examine and analyze the alignment between (information technology) IT, strategic orientation (SO) and organizational structure (OS) and their impact on firm performance (FP). Design/methodology/approach – A theoretical framework is proposed regarding the constructs of IT, SO and OS. A model incorporating these three constructs is examined and their impac...