Strategic management establishes an operational link between the enterprise's overall strategy and more specific aspects of management, such as human resources management (HRM). In a way, the strategic vision is an extension of the systemic vision, which included various elements but did not integrate them from the outset into the enterprise's overall strategy nor establish an operational link ...

Fig 1. Equilateral triangle formed by practice, industry, and academia. Theequilateral triangle formedbypractice, industry, andacademia as they work together and in coordination to advance infection prevention and control (Fig 1) acts as a guiding post for the APIC. The Strategic Partner Program, the APIC’s platform for engagement with industryasawholeat the leadershipandstrategic level, demons...

This study investigates the organizational value of IT-enabled strategic capabilities in specific industry settings. We propose a theory-based model of positive relationships among IT resources, strategic-level agility, and firm performance. The model also proposes the relative values of the strategic-level agility in service and manufacturing industries. Survey data of medium to large-size ent...

The resource based view is an approach which emphasizes the organizations resources and capabilities in its strategy development. The approach has been applied mostly in the competitive private sector but it includes several important lessons which can be used also in the public sector which is struggling with resource problems. The public sector has to find those internal and also external res...

Researchers argue that information technology (IT) personnel capabilities and strategic alignment are important organizational resources. Grounded in the resource-based view, this research examines the relationship between IT personnel capabilities and strategic alignment, showing how companies leverage IT effectively on the basis of complementary and co-specialized organizational resources. Th...

Given the increasingly diverse customer preferences, customization has become a strategic opportunity for organizations to create value. There is no systematic effort, however, in understanding the implementation of customization as a competitive strategy. Based on theories of resources and capabilities and the multidimensional view of economic rents, we derive three strategies of customization...

The visionary concept of zero waste advocates a systematic process of designing out waste and recovering resources from waste. A strategic zero waste framework (ZWF) is essential for developing and executing systematic waste management activities to achieve the overarching goals. This study identifies the key principles for the development of a strategic ZWF based on a waste experts’ survey ana...