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Subject: cfp: Special issue on Organizational Strategy Formulation and Flexibility Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 11:14:45 -0500 From: Jeet Gupta jgupta@BSU.EDU To: ISWORLD@LISTSERV.HEANET.IE
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CALL FOR PAPERS Special issue of Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management on Organizational Strategy Formulation and Flexibility
The formulation and implementation of organizational strategy are recognized as key aspects of the management of all modern successful organizations. However, it has become a daunting task to cope up with changes in today's hyper competitive market place. With increasingly more global competition and the infusion of the internet in the business world, flexibility in the strategy formulation and strategy's implementation process has become a requirement to survive and develop new business. Many researchers over time have stressed the importance of incorporating flexibility in the formulation of business strategy, as it may help achieve better business performance. In such an environment, traditional strategic planning methods do not suffice. To keep organizations competitive, policy makers will have to overhaul the process of formulating and implementing strategic initiatives to explicitly consider flexibility at various levels in the organization. Many challenges await companies as they formulate their organizational strategy and create flexibility in business processes. Thus, organizations are obliged to continuously explore new and innovative strategies, and to seek powerful methodologies that will confer competitive advantage.
The purpose of this special issue is to group together highquality papers that lie at the intersection of flexibility and organizational strategy issues. The term flexibility is adapted in its most generic sense and includes both the service and manufacturing environments. Examples of the subject matter of the papers suitable for this special issue include, but are not limited to, the following:
« Recent developments in strategy formulation that consider the issues related to flexibility that can help practitioners, and their integration with information technology and management sciences tools and techniques.
« Development of appropriate concepts to understand the role and significance of flexibility in organizational strategy formulation.
« Empirical research in understanding the practice of organizational strategy formulation that includes flexibility and the types and levels of flexibility possible in organizations.
« Impact of e-commerce and the internet on organizational strategy formulation and the consideration of flexibility.
« Strategy formulations to achieve effective and flexible supply chain solutions for extended multi-national enterprises.
« Strategy formulations to create and manage virtual enterprises of the future.
« Identification of critical success factors to ensure flexibility in organizations.
« Description and evaluation of information technology and software packages available to help include flexibility in organizational strategy formulation.
« Application papers of specific interest to the business community.
All manuscripts will be promptly and carefully refereed. Authors should follow the Instructions to Authors for the Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management (available from the guest editors) when preparing their manuscripts. Please submit five copies in English, in a machine readable form as an attachment to an e-mail, by no later than February 28, 2002, to one of the following guest editors:
Dr. Jatinder N.D. Gupta, Guest Editor Department of Management Ball State University Muncie, Indiana 47306, U.S.A. Tel: 1-7652855301 FAX: 1-765-285-8024 email: jgupta@bsu.edu
Dr. Sushil K. Sharma, Guest Associate Editor Department of Management Ball State University Muncie, Indiana 47306, U.S.A. Tel: 1-7652855315 FAX: 1-765-285-8024 email: ssharma@bsu.edu
Dr. .Michael G. Goldsby, Guest Associate Editor Department of Management Ball State University Muncie, Indiana 47306, U.S.A. Tel: 1-7652855320 FAX: 1-765-285-8024 email: mgoldsby@gw.bsu.edu
Best regards,
_________________________________________________________________ Jatinder (Jeet) Gupta, Professor 765-285-5301 (Off) Department of Management 765-747-9105 (Home) Ball State University 765-285-8024 (FAX) Muncie, IN 47306, USA e-mail:jgupta@bsu.edu
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