Becoming the best: by beating or ignoring the best? Toward an expanded view of the role of managerial selection in complex and turbulent environments

2010 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 447-481 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Moran ◽  
Michele Simoni ◽  
Gianluca Vagnani
Keyword(s):  
Turbulent Environments ◽  
Managerial Selection

The role of demand management in achieving supply chain agility

2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (5/6) ◽  
pp. 577-591 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. Gligor
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Flexible Manufacturing ◽  
Demand Management ◽  
Comprehensive Review ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Turbulent Environments ◽  
Supply Chain Agility ◽  
Managerial Implications

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of demand management in achieving supply chain agility (SCA) through a multi-disciplinary review of the relevant research. The systematic literature review provides the basis for formulating a conceptual framework of the relationship. Design/methodology/approach – A systematic, comprehensive review of the literature on manufacturing, marketing organizational and SCA from 1991 through 2013 was conducted. The literature on demand management is also examined to identify the various elements that contribute to SCA. Findings – Most agility frameworks take a supply-side perspective and assume that demand is known. Those that do acknowledge the role of demand fall short of offering a holistic framework that acknowledges the role of both. This paper suggests that it is simply not enough to have flexible manufacturing, distribution and procurement systems to achieve SCA. Flexibility in managing demand is also needed. Furthermore, it is the premise of this paper that demand and supply integration (DSI) inside the firm is critical to achieving SCA. Research limitations/implications – This research is a systematic, integrative review of the existing literature on the concept of agility. As such, the next phase of research needed for theory building will be the operationalization of constructs and testing of the hypothesized relationships proposed by the conceptual framework. Practical implications – The paper has several managerial implications as well. It illustrates how firms can create and sustain competitive advantages in turbulent environments. Managers can use the framework developed here to assess what structures and decision-making processes they can use to increase the firm’s SCA. Practitioners can use this model as a checklist to identify candidate areas for improving agility. The section illustrating the use of knowledge management to increase DSI should be of particular interest to managers, considering that a great deal of firms experience a disconnect between demand creation and supply fulfillment. Originality/value – Through a systematic, comprehensive review of multi-disciplinary literature, the paper explores the role of demand management in achieving SCA.

Entrepreneurial orientation in turbulent environments: The moderating role of absorptive capacity

2014 ◽  
Vol 43 (8) ◽  
pp. 1353-1369 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Engelen ◽  
Harald Kube ◽  
Susanne Schmidt ◽  
Tessa Christina Flatten
Keyword(s):  
Absorptive Capacity ◽  
Entrepreneurial Orientation ◽  
Turbulent Environments ◽  
Moderating Role

The role of supply management resilience in attaining ambidexterity: a dynamic capabilities approach

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reham A. Eltantawy
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Capabilities Approach ◽  
Supply Management ◽  
Ecological Resilience ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Turbulent Environments ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Exploitation And Exploration ◽  
Resilience Capabilities

Purpose – This study aims to explore the necessary role of supply management (SM) resilience capabilities in making effective trade-offs to attain an ambidextrous state, i.e. the state of attaining exploitation and exploration with dexterity, or achieving high levels of both. Sustainability requires effective trade-offs among economic, environmental and social outcomes while maintaining the longevity of the buying firm. Existing literature highlights the difficulty of making effective trade-offs due to likely tensions between divergent demands, i.e. tensions between exploitative and explorative performance goals. Design/methodology/approach – This conceptual study extends insights from the dynamic capabilities approach to explore the nature of SM resilience and its role in attaining ambidexterity. Findings – This study proposes SM resilience as a multifaceted dynamic capability that is determined by two contrasting aspects of stability (engineering and ecological resilience) that aid the buyer’s firm to ambidextrously adapt and transform in turbulent environments. Practical implications – The study highlights the competencies and resilience capabilities that managers need to develop and maintain in pursuing an effective balance of exploitation and exploration in SM. Originality/value – The proposed framework extends existing SM sustainability frameworks by examining the nature and dimensionality of resilience and linking it to ambidexterity. The proposed framework provides a platform for the integration of theoretical aspects from various research streams; socio-ecological literature, dynamic capabilities and organizational ambidexterity.

Individual Performance in Turbulent Environments: The Role of Organizational Learning Capability and Employee Flexibility

2015 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 363-383 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joaquín Camps ◽  
Víctor Oltra ◽  
Joaquín Aldás-Manzano ◽  
Guillermo Buenaventura-Vera ◽  
Federico Torres-Carballo
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Learning ◽  
Individual Performance ◽  
Learning Capability ◽  
Turbulent Environments

The Role of Personality Testing in Managerial Selection

1994 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 3-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Dakin ◽  
V. Nilakant ◽  
Ross Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Personality Testing ◽  
Managerial Selection

scholarly journals The Role of Vendor Legitimacy in IT Outsourcing Performance: Theory and Evidence

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Hsu ◽  
Jae-Nam Lee ◽  
Yulin Fang ◽  
Detmar W. Straub ◽  
Ning Su ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Standards ◽  
Relational Governance ◽  
Turbulent Environments ◽  
Operational Level ◽  
Moral Dimensions ◽  
Managerial Level ◽  
Executives And Managers ◽  
Worthwhile Investment

Information technology outsourcing (ITO) relationships today are facing increasingly turbulent environments. This research examines ITO performance by focusing on client firms’ perceived legitimacy of vendors, termed “vendor legitimacy,” consisting of pragmatic, cognitive, and moral dimensions. Based on our surveys with executives and managers at 200 ITO client firms, the study’s findings present the imperative to actively manage vendor legitimacy for achieving and sustaining ITO performance. Specifically, at the strategic level, clients’ perception of vendors as mutually aligned, long-term-oriented, tightly integrated partners is critical. At the operational level, clients should collaborate with vendors to design and establish interorganizational routines that undergird vendor legitimacy. At the managerial level, clients’ relational governance plays a pivotal role in attaining procedural justice, ethical standards, and fairness in the interorganizational collaboration. In sum, our study suggests that creating a dedicated corporate function or unit for continually overseeing and assessing a portfolio of vendors and swiftly identifying and responding to potential issues and crises related to vendor legitimacy would be a worthwhile investment.

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