Supply and Operations: Parallel Paths and Integrated Strategies
Year: 2004
Type: article
Abstract: This paper provides evidence of links between the nature of strategic formulation within firms and subsequent plant performance. The research focuses on how some firms have managed to link operations and supply into an integrated set of mutually supportive strategies. In the current competitive arena firms can no longer rely wholly on internal resource‐based capabilities but must instead form strategic partnerships within what are often complex networks. The paper explores how operations and supply functions have pursued parallel paths but have often not been fully integrated within firms. It is argued that such integration, which forms part of what has been termedstrategic resonance, can reap enormous benefits in terms of plant‐level capabilities for firms.
Source: British Journal of Management
Authors: Steve Brown, Paul D. Cousins
Language: English
Subfield: Management Information Systems
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2168069333