Corporate strategy should direct the way we invest managerial resources such as people, capital and materials in order to achieve corporate intention. Historically speaking, strategy has been used within military terminology, exemplified by the ancient Sun Tzu’s ‘The Art of War’ or in more recent history, Carl von Clausewitz’s ‘On War’. Strategy has been argued for over 2300 years, since Sun Tz...

This research studies heterarchical collaboration in logistical transport. Specifically, it utilizes a hybrid Delphi-Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) approach to explore the relevant criteria for the formation and maintenance of a strategic alignment for heterarchical transport collaboration. The importance of this work is that it applies a novel hybrid approach for identifying criteria for suc...

Global consumption of materials is rising rapidly leading to an increase in environmental impacts associated with the supply chain. Similar issues also affect a set strategic for transition towards sustainable energy production and distribution system: i.e. employed renewable (wind turbines photovoltaic panels), storage, electrolysers, electricity networks electric vehicle charging infrastructu...

There is growing evidence that client firms expect outsourcing suppliers to transform their business. Indeed, most outsourcing suppliers have delivered IT operational and business process innovation to client firms; however, achieving strategic innovation through outsourcing has been perceived to be far more challenging. Building on the growing interest in the IS outsourcing literature, this pa...

The access of Virtual Organizations to raw materials normally requires external resources. In many cases, the market for raw materials is regulated and the VO principles of trust, customer orientation etc. are not applicable. In consequence, the VO needs to provide reliable solutions for the customer while being dependent on the access to the required raw materials. The objective of the propose...

We developed a strategic-planning model to optimize BMW’s allocation of various products to global production sites over a 12-year planning horizon. It includes the supply of materials as well as the distribution of finished cars to the global markets. It determines the investments needed in the three production departments, body assembly, paint shop, and final assembly, for every site and the ...