Vital decisions made at the strategic level in an organization are not only intricate but also costly to alter. It is therefore important to find a comprehensive approach to deal with such a possibility. One of the major problems of a common balanced scorecard (BSC)-based model in strategic management is lack of a ranking system for strategic objectives in order to enable prioritization of the ...

This paper aims to present the different aspects and characteristics of strategic and operational information and propose a categorization pattern allowing to consider an information as strategic or operational. This categorization is to be used in the two decision making processes to assist its mining, and usage by the two related decision support systems. This is conducted trough the results ...

Expressing differences openly leads to high-quality strategic decisions, and resolving those differences through collaboration is a key to implementation.

Project management decisions are made at the strategic, the tactical and the operational level. These decision levels are unarguably interrelated. Uncertainty in project management is primarily dealt with at an operational level by detecting operational risks and deciding on how to respond to them such that the tactical objectives can be met. We stress some major issues regarding the topics of ...

We address the simultaneous determination of pricing and capacity investment strategies in a multi-period setting under demand uncertainty. In our model a monopolistic firm makes three decisions: capacity investment (or disinvestment), production (inventory), and price, all of which can be specified dynamically as a function of the state of the system. We analyze the optimal joint strategy and ...

Although manufacturing determines mostly the current performance of companies, few companies deal with the issues related to strategic capacity management. Besides decisions on outsourcing, this involves triggering process development and improving performance by adapting organisational structures. Action Research in companies reveals the importance of capacity management at a strategic level. ...

We study the strategic interaction between the pricing decisions of a pharmaceutical firm and the reimbursement decisions of a government agency which grants reimbursement rights to patients for whom new drugs are most cost-effective. If the reimbursement decision precedes pricing, the agency only reimburses some patients if the drug's private and public health benefits diverge. This is, there ...

We assess the credit market impact of allowing mortgage “strip-down” as a foreclosureprevention measure, where strip-down reduces the principal of underwater residential mortgages to the current market value of the property for homeowners in Chapter 13 bankruptcy. Our identification is provided by a series of U.S. court decisions that introduced strip-down in parts of the U.S. and a Supreme Cou...

The reliability of confessions is subject to a variety of factors, some of which give rise to expert testimony. To the degree that prosecutors construe the determination of reliability as an objective standard, they may attempt to bar testimony. Moreover, when the testimony is theoretical rather than clinical, there are additional challenges. Depending on jurisdiction, the admissibility of expe...

The study aims to analyze the IT architecture management practices associated with their degree of maturity and the influence of institutional and strategic factors on the decisions involved through a case study in a large telecom organization. The case study allowed us to identify practices that led the company to its current stage of maturity and identify practices that can lead the company t...