This study essentially aims at investigating the link between strategy choice and operational performance of Turkish companies. To this end, a number of key competitive priorities were identified in order to examine the tendency of Turkish companies towards creating differentiation-based competitive advantage. Deriving from 519 Turkish companies’ survey results, the effect of this strategy choi...

This exploratory study aims to develop a taxonomy of purchasing strategies at the purchase category level. We define based on competitive priorities, an approach that is common in operations management literature, but very novel purchasing. Analysing data collected from 318 manufacturing firms ten countries through use cluster analysis, we identify five strategies: “Emphasise All, Cost Manageme...

This paper represents a complete survey on Generation Companies’ (GenCos’) optimal bidding strategy problem in restructured power markets. In this regard after an introduction to competitive electricity markets, concept of optimal bidding strategy is presented. Considering large amount of works accomplished in this area a novel classification is implemented in order to categorize the existing d...

In a study involving 52 large organizations in the computer components industry, the relationship between information technology structure and organizational Gompetitive strategy was examined. The results indicate that the information technology structure, as measured by the locus of responsibilities for information systems, is strongly related to competitive strategy. For example, an organizat...

  Supplier selection is one of the critical activities for firms to gain competitive advantage and achieve the objectives of the whole supply chain. In this paper based on a DEA-TOPSIS method for MADM problems a flexible strategy for supplier selection is introduced