La place des middle managers dans la démarche stratégique a souvent été soulignée par la littérature stratégique (Bower, 1970 ; Burgelman 1983 ; Mintzberg 1994, Laroche 1999). Cependant, rares sont les études ayant tenté d’approfondir les caractéristiques et les déterminants de leur...

This paper examines the nature of virtual teams and their place in the networked economy. It presents a framework for categorising virtual teams and argues that fundamental changes have taken place in the business environment which force people and organisations to operate in 'two spaces'...

On s’intéresse à la standardisation de composants partiellement substituables destinés à satisfaire un ensemble de besoins. L’approche monocritère de la standardisation proposée au siècle dernier est enrichie par une prise en compte explicite de plusieurs critères et d’une...

After a characterization of the cost-oriented assembly line balancing problem it will be shown that by loading the stations maximally the cost-oriented optimum can be missed. Instead of loading the stations maximally the criterion two-stations-rule a has to be used. For generating optimal...

This paper is focused on the solution quality and computing time requirements of heuristic methods for cost-oriented assembly line balancing. It is based on a recent paper (Amen, International Journal of Production Economics 68 (2000), which describes in detail the solution process of existent...

This paper is concerned with cost-oriented assembly line balancing. This problem occurs especially in the final assembly of automotives, consumer durables or personal computers, where production is still very labour- intensive, and where the wage rates depend on the requirements and...

Le contrôle de gestion d’une innovation est une problématique délicate, et pour certains insoluble, en particulier lorsque le développement de nouveaux produits ou services s’appuie sur des technologies dont le modèle économique est peu connu. Toutefois, l’article présente un cadre...

The present paper develops a basic framework for evaluating and optimizing profits in a business operation. In developing a business we are often faced with an infinity of choices ranging from what products or services to sell and what customers to target to how to structure and manage the...

Most research concerning e-business offers a methodology, measures the predisposition of the firm or evaluates the consequences in terms of management.This research aims at designing a model for assessing e-business strategies based on the strategic alignment perspective.Using the Information...