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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Strategic flexibility"”.
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Strategic flexibility
… to a change of the entity's environment. Flexibility has gathered the attention of academic researchers and industry practitioners as an efficient approach to cope with today's volatile environment. As the environments become more unpredictable and volatile, it is imperative for a flexible …
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Strategic flexibility, real options, and product-based strategy
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1991.
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Real options theory and the value of strategic flexibility for MNEs
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2026-12-01
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Adaptative development of a model for manging it value with strategic flexibility
… the IT function must be set up to support firm flexibility. It is indisputable that flexibility is an appropriate instrument for responding rapidly to market changes. Therefore, the IT function must adjust their business-relevant IT capabilities to respond to changing business demands flexibly. …
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A theory of product-based competition
… measures of a firm's manufacturing and design flexibility from the components that are used to create products. Third, it tests the assertion that firm performance is a function of the goodness of fit achieved between market uncertainty and compensating strategic flexibility.
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On Strategy and Manufacturing Flexibility
… thesis focuses on strategy and manufacturing flexibility. It includes a frame of reference and eight papers appended in full, reporting findings in four broad areas: • Manufacturing flexibility, • Manufacturing strategy, • Strategic flexibility, • Strategic manufacturing flexibility. The …
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Exonerating Manuel I Komnenos: Byzantine Foreign Policy (1143-1180)
… policy to demonstrate the emperor's efficacy and strategic flexibility. The perception, generally accepted by historians, that Manuel left his empire exhausted and vulnerable to outside aggression is also seriously challenged. Regardless of Manuel's defeat at Myriokephalon in 1176, he could claim …
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Guidelines for the design of flexibility in queueing systems : model, measures, and analysis
… overall utilization measures when compared to strategic flexibility design parameters such as the assignment of long-term job responsibilities to servers. However, we show that this influence on performance is significant enough that various flexibility design alternatives are better compared …
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HILLARY CLINTON MOBILIZES INTERNATIONAL PRESSURE AGAINST IRAN WITH THE TRADITIONAL RHETORIC OF COLLECTIVE SECURITY
… within a temporal structure which preserves strategic flexibility while naturalizing U.S. hegemony. The risks commonly associated with the spread of nuclear weapons and pressing questions about America's increasingly sketch reputation bestow importance on this particular address, suggesting …
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Mobilizing and sustaining grassroots activism in the National Organization for Women, 1966-2000 : by Maryann Barakso.
… structures, leaders, organizational structure, strategic flexibility, and collective identity played in NOW's creation and maintenance. Little support is found for the role of patrons or of the state in NOW's origination and sustenance. Mobilizing structures, in the form of social networks, …
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Design management absorption in SMEs with little or no prior design experience
… review explores several building blocks from strategic management, innovation, and organisational studies, and connects them to design and design management studies to understand this fundamentally interdisciplinary topic. The empirical foundation of this thesis is an action research project …
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The Korean hub strategy
… successful business hub in Northeast Asia. Its strategic scheme is divided into two categories - logistics hub and business center. For years, the Netherlands and Singapore have dominated as the regional hub with the unique role. The Netherlands focuses on the logistics in the Europe with solid …
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Design and analysis of competitive electricity markets
… a central dispatch and pricing mechanism, when strategic, capacity-constrained suppliers face strategic, price- responsive consumers, we show that market allocative efficiency loss and price markup at the Nash equilibrium are bounded. We demonstrate analogous efficiency bounds in the study of …
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Development of a structured framework for core competence evaluation in the manufacturing and service industries.
… sufficient for core competencies to keep their strategic values in dynamic competitive environment. A true core competence should be able to continuously create new business options for the firm Therefore, this thesis emphases that to be core competence, the candidates must be strategically …
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Inclusive Instructional Design in the Learning Experiences of Omani Preservice Teachers: Student Perspective
… to all learners through the provision of strategic flexibility in areas of learner engagement, representation of information, and learner action and expression. Omani preservice teachers are exposed to some concepts related to inclusive education and curriculum design in their programs; …
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Innovation persistence during economic crisis by Nigeria's construction contracting firms : an investigation of the critical success factors
… the experienced client, the capacity to maintain strategic flexibility, the presence of an effective innovation system and a culture of market orientation are the critical success factors that enable firm level innovation persistence during economic crisis. The present study ultimately lends …