Good performances of food companies depend more and more on the organizational ability of the whole sector to promote common strategies. At the EU level national food sectors are oriented on the same strategic direction by common legislative acts. A new ex-ante regulations’ impacts assessment methodology is proposed as part of a decision support system for the policy maker in charge of the sect...

Methods NBIC engaged the biosurveillance community within and beyond the federal government through a series of extensive discussions, workshops, and symposia to define a strategy for future development of integrated biosurveillance activities grounded in legislative and presidential direction. The NBIC Strategic Plan was extensively reviewed by the twelve federal Departments that comprise the ...

Strategic planning is an essential part of establishing the Air Force’s direction. Using a group support system for strategic planning is one avenue to make effective use of technology and improve the strategic planning process. This research implements a group support system (GSS) as a facilitation tool to improve the strategic planning process at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho with the...

This research article explores a new way of innovation found in open source communities. No longer is innovation closed where research and development is kept internal to the firm. Instead, it is becoming more open, where ideas, inventions, and intellectual property are readily traded in a global marketplace. Our research observed open source communities as something different from the received...

Luis Inácio Lula da Silva’s victory in Brazil’s 2002 presidential election brought to power Latin America’s largest leftist party, the Workers’Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores [PT]). The PT won because it moved to the center, and voters regarded this shift as credible. The party’s transformation is puzzling, because political scientists do not expect strategic flexibility in “mass bureaucratic”...

This study seeks to explain how stakeholders’ dynamics influence Information and Communication Technology (ICT) strategic projects implementation in Saudi Arabian public hospitals. Stakeholder theory, mainly the identification framework of Mitchell, Agle, and Wood, is used to identify stakeholders’ saliency throughout the project events. However, stakeholder theory is static and do not help in ...