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The Role Of Strategic Planning In The Performance Of Small Professional Service Firms: A Research Note, Steven French, Stephen Kelly, Jennifer Harrison
The Role Of Strategic Planning In The Performance Of Small Professional Service Firms: A Research Note, Steven French, Stephen Kelly, Jennifer Harrison
Adjunct Professor Stephen J Kelly
Using a sample of small, regional professional service firms, this paper investigates relationships between firm performance and aspects of strategic planning. Constructs measuring vision, mission, latent abilities, competitor orientation and market orientation are identified using exploratory factor analysis and respondents categorised as non-planners, informal planners, formal planners and sophisticated planners. Multiple performance measures were used to assess the relationship between these factors and categories and firm performance. While no significant relationship between the performance measures and factors is identified, a significant relationship between net profit and informal planning emerges. These mixed results bring into question the value of the classical …
Reframing Strategic Thinking: Emergence Beyond The Box, Stephen Kelly, Alexander Kouzmin
Reframing Strategic Thinking: Emergence Beyond The Box, Stephen Kelly, Alexander Kouzmin
Adjunct Professor Stephen J Kelly
No abstract provided.
Crisis Opportunism: Bailouts And E-Scads In The Gfc, Judy Johnston, Alexander Kouzmin, Kym Thorne, Stephen Kelly
Crisis Opportunism: Bailouts And E-Scads In The Gfc, Judy Johnston, Alexander Kouzmin, Kym Thorne, Stephen Kelly
Adjunct Professor Stephen J Kelly
As a response to the junk debt-inspired global economic crisis, governments, with supra-national organizational approval, have appropriated billions of taxpayers dollars for bailouts, have set up special funds and underwritten depositors savings in the desperate hope of alleviating the threat of rapid, economic decline and systemic destruction of value. Whether these governments have a democratic mandate for such unprecedented action is debatable. More importantly, though, is whether such decisions amount to good re-regulatory policy. First, it is known that some of the bailout money to large corporations has been squandered by oligarchic recipients and appropriated by them in their own …
Strategic Benefits And The Small Firm, Stephen Kelly
Strategic Benefits And The Small Firm, Stephen Kelly
Adjunct Professor Stephen J Kelly
No abstract provided.
Questioning The Epistemic Virtue Of Strategy: The Emperor Has No Clothes!, Steven French, Alexander Kouzmin, Stephen Kelly
Questioning The Epistemic Virtue Of Strategy: The Emperor Has No Clothes!, Steven French, Alexander Kouzmin, Stephen Kelly
Adjunct Professor Stephen J Kelly
No abstract provided.
Strategy Beyond The Box: An Editorial Prologue, Stephen Kelly, Alexander Kouzmin
Strategy Beyond The Box: An Editorial Prologue, Stephen Kelly, Alexander Kouzmin
Adjunct Professor Stephen J Kelly
No abstract provided.