Business-nonprofit partnerships have gained increased relevance in the context of the evolution of corporate social responsibility strategies and the existence of extremely complex societal and environmental challenges. However, these collaborations are also associated with important ethical concerns. Under such a scenario, this study attempts to shed light on the effects of high value-added pa...

It has been argued that platform technology owners co-create business value with other firms in their innovation ecosystems to encourage complementary invention and exploit indirect network effects. In this study we examine whether participation in an ecosystem partnership improves the business performance for small independent software vendors (ISVs) in the enterprise software industry and how...

The Management Academy for Public Health is a management development program with the goals of helping public health managers learn to manage people, data, and finance, to think and plan like entrepreneurs, and to strengthen public health organizations. Managers enroll as teams and develop business plans in the Academy's extensive project-based learning component. Extensive internal and externa...

This study proposes a Supplier Quality Affiliation (SQA) approach that is integrated into a mixed integer programming Strategic Supply Chain Management (SSCM) model for overall improvement of the supply chain business process. A pool of acceptable quality and high quality suppliers are affiliated using multi-dimensional quality attributes for the supplier operation parameters in the SQA model. ...

1 Based on the results of a survey of 263 BPO clients and on 57 interviews with executives leading 28 BPO relationships, we identified nine practices that contribute to best-in-class business process outsourcing (BPO) performance. The nine practices span a three-stage journey to best-in-class performance, which we call " Launch the Mission, " " Stay on Target " and " Explore New Frontiers. " Th...

It has been argued that platform technology owners cocreate business value with other firms in their platform ecosystems by encouraging complementary invention and exploiting indirect network effects. In this study, we examine whether participation in an ecosystem partnership improves the business performance of small independent software vendors (ISVs) in the enterprise software industry and h...

Information system software development projects suffer from a high failure rate. One of many obstacles faced by project managers is non-supportive users, those not actively sharing in development responsibilities. The coordination activity of early partnering has been proposed in the literature to promote collaboration and enhance user support. The extent of partnering is considered in a model...