At some companies, procurement has become closely intertwined with strategic decision making and board policy at the highest levels of the organization.
It is the most complete and balanced description we have of two sciences whose results and recommendations will, in the years ahead, be ever more intertwined with the decisions of political leaders and the fate of the human species.
Even though the benefits of multi-sourcing and lateral transshipments have been presented in the literature individually to mitigate risks associated with uncertain demand and disrupted supply, the intertwined sourcing and inventory decisions under these settings have not been investigated from a quantitative perspective.
These two sets of decisions are closely intertwined, of course.
Above ground, the decisions about a memorial, the street grid and whatever commercial development occurs on the site are so intertwined as to be essentially one decision, whose many parts will have to be made almost simultaneously.
Both initiatives aim to produce future leaders and decision-makers well-versed in these intertwined issues.
It is argued that the more intertwined nature of banks and financial markets induces opportunistic decision making and herding behavior.
The decision is a new milestone in the intertwined disputes over school financing, taxation and the role of the courts that have roiled the state's politics since the 1970s.
To this purpose, the authors propose an integrated extension of the decision-making model described in [24], which consists of three parallel and intertwined processes, combining a (i) cognitive rational approach to organising the decision-making process, (ii) a five-level stakeholder engagement process, and (iii) quantitative analyses and methods.
Drawing on an in-depth empirical analysis of Heathrow airport's Terminal 5 project, we find that innovation hinges on technology adoption decisions that are governed systematically by two intertwined determinants – assessment of expected profitability and development of absorptive capacity, both of which are distributed across various interdependent actors.
