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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
A critical analysis of contemporary strategic management theory and practice suggests that modernist, linear thinking has facilitated the development of an abstracted reality which is misleading to managers and fundamentally flawed. It is argued that formulaic strategic tools such as those propounded by Porter fail to capture the reality of the complex environments that confront firms and falsely suggest that an answer can be derived from a predetermined toolbox. As an alternative to this dominant paradigm, the complexity of markets is presented not as something to be feared and ignored, but rather as a truth to be embraced. As a …
Creating An Index Of Local Software Economy Maturity: Driving Innovation And Productivity, Malcolm Fraser, Jennifer Harrison, Stephen Kelly
Creating An Index Of Local Software Economy Maturity: Driving Innovation And Productivity, Malcolm Fraser, Jennifer Harrison, Stephen Kelly
Adjunct Professor Stephen J Kelly
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Exploring The Perceived Influence Of Safety Management Practices On Project Performance In The Construction Industry, Eddie Cheng, Neal Ryan, Stephen Kelly
Exploring The Perceived Influence Of Safety Management Practices On Project Performance In The Construction Industry, Eddie Cheng, Neal Ryan, Stephen Kelly
Adjunct Professor Stephen J Kelly
Although safety management is known to be vital to construction projects, very few studies have solicited views from construction practitioners about their perceptions of which safety management practices (SMPs) are important to construction projects and related to project performance. An empirical study was undertaken in Hong Kong in order to shed more light on this topic. In the study, the importance levels of 15 popular SMPs and five project performance criteria were rated by 232 respondents. An exploratory factor analysis was conducted, and three SMP categories – information, process, and committees – were extracted. Of these three categories, safety management …
Relationship Benefits: Conceptualization And Measurement In A Business-To-Business Environment, Stephen Kelly, Donald Scott
Relationship Benefits: Conceptualization And Measurement In A Business-To-Business Environment, Stephen Kelly, Donald Scott
Adjunct Professor Stephen J Kelly
This article offers both a conceptually valid measure of the relationship benefits derived from the relationship marketing, networks, services marketing and strategy literature and demonstrates the concept’s effect on business-to-business bonds. Four types of relationship benefit labelled cost, service, flexibility and image benefits are identified and their measures tested for reliability and validity. A structural model incorporating associations between a second-order relationship benefits construct and other salient relationship concepts is also tested, with significant direct associations between relationship benefits, trust and relationship investments evident, together with indirect associations between relationship benefits and instrumental, affective and normative commitment, absence of conflict, …