click on star to go back to Joseph Sarkis' HomepageNumerous definitions and difficulty in quantifying and analyzing flexibility have made choosing a flexibility objective difficult for firms, as evidenced in the extant literature. To help management integrate the appropriate flexibility into their strategy formulation an analytic approach may be helpful. We will address the issue of analytically defining strategic flexibility within this paper. A brief background discussion on the need and types of organizational flexibility will set the foundation for the analytical model. The model will utilize Saaty's [1988] system with feedback approach to address the issue of integrating flexibility into organizational strategic direction.
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