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Full-Text Articles in Business
Competitive Intensity And Its Two-Sided Effect On The Boundaries Of Firm Performance, Joao Montez, Francisco Ruiz-Aliseda, Michael D. Ryall
Competitive Intensity And Its Two-Sided Effect On The Boundaries Of Firm Performance, Joao Montez, Francisco Ruiz-Aliseda, Michael D. Ryall
Michael D Ryall
The new perspective emerging from strategy's value-capture stream is that the effects of competition are two-fold: competition for an agent bounds its performance from below, while that for its transaction partners bounds from above. Thus, assessing the intensity of competition on either side is essential to understanding firm performance. Yet, the literature provides no formal notion of "competitive intensity" with which to make such assessments. Rather, some authors use added value as their central analytic concept, others the core. Added value is simple, but misses the crucial, for-an-agent side of competition. The core is theoretically complete, but difficult to interpret …
Strategic Risk Management In Agriculture, Steven Slezak
Strategic Risk Management In Agriculture, Steven Slezak
Steven Slezak
A presentation on the risk management issues that impact strategy in agribusiness and agriculture operations.
Strategic Management In Agriculture (Recording), Steven Slezak
Strategic Management In Agriculture (Recording), Steven Slezak
Steven Slezak
No abstract provided.
China's New Energy Vehicles: Value And Innovation, Chris Kimble, Hua Wang
China's New Energy Vehicles: Value And Innovation, Chris Kimble, Hua Wang
Chris Kimble
The overarching theme of this article is the importance of innovations that are created within the emerging economies. More specifically, the article aims to focus on the development of various alternatives to vehicles powered by the internal combustion engine, new energy vehicles (NEVs), within China. The broad strategic approach of two sectors within the NEV sector in China, the pure electric vehicle (EV) and the low-speed electric vehicle (LSEV) sectors, are compared using recent data and conclusions are drawn. The EV sector is viewed by central government as a key sector for China's future industrial growth and is heavily supported. …
Coopetition At Work: How Firms Shaped The Airline Industry, Wojciech Czakon, Leo Paul Dana
Coopetition At Work: How Firms Shaped The Airline Industry, Wojciech Czakon, Leo Paul Dana
Leo- Paul Dana
The literature on coopetition has made a substantial progress in identifying its attributes and outcomes. However, published work has much less to say about the emergence of this strategy. We develop a view on coopetition adoption at industry level, focused on exogenous factors, and seen from an evolutionary perspective. Our longitudinal study of the airline industry development reveals that coopetition is a way of operating, aimed at shaping relationships between value network members. Empirical data suggest that cooperative moves of key players are meant at a more efficient value creation. Yet, those moves involve also intra- and internetwork competition. Industry …
Strategic Planning: A Dynamic Process, Steven Slezak
Strategic Planning: A Dynamic Process, Steven Slezak
Steven Slezak
A presentation outlining the steps taken to produce a thorough strategic business plan, along with the supporting analysis.
What Is Strategy?, Steven Slezak
What Is Strategy?, Steven Slezak
Steven Slezak
A presentation outlining the nature of strategy, emphasizing its paradoxical nature, describing its structure, and describing competitive advantage and the value chain.
A Critical Examination Of The Relationship Between The Use Of Gatekeepers, Trust, And Organisation Knowledge-Sharing, Deogratias Harorimana Dr
A Critical Examination Of The Relationship Between The Use Of Gatekeepers, Trust, And Organisation Knowledge-Sharing, Deogratias Harorimana Dr
Dr Deogratias Harorimana
This thesis critically examines the relationship between gatekeepers, trust, and an organisation’s knowledge sharing. The research applied mixed methods with the case study approach. In this research the concept ‘gatekeeper’ is widely used to represent a class of those who are part of a knowledge management strategy; they collect information and knowledge and contextualise this before they can share it with the rest of the members of the organisation’s knowledge networks - within the formal and informal organisation. In this study, it was found that there was a strong relationship between the openness of a given firm, as regards its …
Delivery Innovation, Jacob Johnsen
Delivery Innovation, Jacob Johnsen
Jacob Johnsen, MSc
Jacob Johnsen reviews the postal role in communication and draws some conclusions. This was presented at the Innovation Seminar on 17 September 2012.
Messaging Focus, Jacob Johnsen
Messaging Focus, Jacob Johnsen
Jacob Johnsen, MSc
Jacob Johnsen argues that Posts must take a stand in defining part of the core Business in order to change from a Focus on Letters, to a broader Focus on Messages
1001 Listes: Strategic Breakthroughs By A Low-Tech Company In A High-Tech World, Chris Kimble, Isabelle Bourdon
1001 Listes: Strategic Breakthroughs By A Low-Tech Company In A High-Tech World, Chris Kimble, Isabelle Bourdon
Chris Kimble
Most articles on strategic breakthroughs tend to concentrate on large, high-tech organizations. Yet the French firm 1001 Listes, which creates and manages wedding lists, has shown that it is possible for even a relatively small organization to generate strategic breakthroughs with standard off-the-shelf information technology. Its experience highlights two points that previous studies have overlooked: Breakthrough strategies are based on innovations in business models as well as innovations in technology, and breakthrough strategies may actually reduce a company's reliance on high-tech solutions as a means of maintaining its competitive advantage. Using Henderson and Venkatraman's (1993) model of strategic alignment, this …
Threats Escalate: Corporate Information Technology Governance Under Fire, Lawrence J. Trautman
Threats Escalate: Corporate Information Technology Governance Under Fire, Lawrence J. Trautman
Lawrence J. Trautman Sr.
In a previous publication The Board’s Responsibility for Information Technology Governance, (with Kara Altenbaumer-Price) we examined: The IT Governance Institute’s Executive Summary and Framework for Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology 4.1 (COBIT®); reviewed the Weill and Ross Corporate and Key Asset Governance Framework; and observed “that in a survey of audit executives and board members, 58 percent believed that their corporate employees had little to no understanding of how to assess risk.” We further described the new SEC rules on risk management; Congressional action on cyber security; legal basis for director’s duties and responsibilities relative to IT governance; …
Delivery Innovation, Jacob Johnsen
Delivery Innovation, Jacob Johnsen
Jacob Johnsen, MSc
In a more personal reflection of the future, experienced consultant Jacob Johnsen argues that the decline of letter volume should be seen as a signal for posts to move beyond the letter and embrace fully the possibility of playing a role in digital.
The Environment As A Multi-Dimensional System:, Murray Hunter
The Environment As A Multi-Dimensional System:, Murray Hunter
Murray Hunter
Traditional approaches to management have been mechanistic, grounded in the belief that one is in control within an environment that can be manipulated through a firm forming objectives, strategies, and actions through organizations. In addition strategic planning has viewed the environment in a very structured way, for example a situational audit and SWOT analysis2 and it wasn’t until Porter developed the competitive forces model that the environment became the centre of strategy. These kinetic metaphors portray an organization as one embedded with a belief that it has an internal locus of control with the ability to manipulate forces within the …
The Evolution Of Business Strategy, Murray Hunter
The Evolution Of Business Strategy, Murray Hunter
Murray Hunter
Before the 1960s, strategy was referred to as “generalship”, “the art of war” and being concerned about managing army campaigns1. Strategy was first used in the conduct of business in the early 1960s by Chandler2, who developed strategic concepts along the thoughts of the industrial economics school3, business policy, and into a prescriptive model with objectives set by the management group which utilized defined strategies to attempt achieving their goals in what was termed corporate strategy.
Social Networks, E-Mail Security And The Future Of Posts, Jacob Johnsen
Social Networks, E-Mail Security And The Future Of Posts, Jacob Johnsen
Jacob Johnsen, MSc
Social Media and its effect on postal business
Digital Letters, Jacob Johnsen
Digital Letters, Jacob Johnsen
Jacob Johnsen, MSc
Neil Richmond and Jacob Johnsen believe that now is the time for service providers to bridge the digital and physical worlds.
Business And Non-Profit Organizations Facing Increased Competition And Growing Customers' Demands (Vol. 10), Anna Ujwary-Gil
Business And Non-Profit Organizations Facing Increased Competition And Growing Customers' Demands (Vol. 10), Anna Ujwary-Gil
Anna Ujwary-Gil
The major issues analyzed in the papers referred to: • business and non-profit organizations as an object of scientific research, • business and non-profit organizations in market economy, • modern tools for business and non-profit organizations management • business and non-profit organizations – global and regional aspects, • financial aspects of managing business and non-profit organizations.
Strategic Planning For Digital Convergence In South African Businesses, Manoj Maharaj, Kiru Pillay
Strategic Planning For Digital Convergence In South African Businesses, Manoj Maharaj, Kiru Pillay
Manoj Maharaj
No abstract provided.
Hybrid Mail Is Giving Developing Countries A Push, Jacob Johnsen
Hybrid Mail Is Giving Developing Countries A Push, Jacob Johnsen
Jacob Johnsen, MSc
Jacob Johnsen provides us with an account of how in emerging posts, hybrid mail is opening up more new opportunities and is doing so in ways that are different to the experience of posts in developed countries.
Why Some Countries Are Taking A Leap Ahead By Introducing Hybrid Mail, Jacob Johnsen
Why Some Countries Are Taking A Leap Ahead By Introducing Hybrid Mail, Jacob Johnsen
Jacob Johnsen, MSc
Why some countries are taking a leap ahead by introducing hybrid mail, just when like they skipped the steam engine and went from mule to combustion engines.
The Hybrid Mail Definitive Study, Jacob Johnsen
The Hybrid Mail Definitive Study, Jacob Johnsen
Jacob Johnsen, MSc
Complete review of status for hybrid mail and summary of report findings.
Book Review: The Strategy Oven, Donald Nordberg
Book Review: The Strategy Oven, Donald Nordberg
Donald Nordberg
Q. Why are there so many books about strategy? A. Because it is a subject we know so little about. There is an element of truth in this old joke. Strategy is both amorphous and important. Unlike most other subjects in business and management, it has no agreed beginning and certainly no end. It is difficult even to determine when "business policy" became "strategy", or whether strategy is the superset of organizational behaviour, human resources, marketing, operations, information systems, finance, accounting, and leadership, or a subset of each. Selecting an approach – and a textbook – involves a baffling array …
Hybrid Mail, Status, Possibilities And Scenarios, Jacob Johnsen
Hybrid Mail, Status, Possibilities And Scenarios, Jacob Johnsen
Jacob Johnsen, MSc
Overview of solutions and possibilities as well as past experiences with the use of hybrid mail.
The Two Sides Of Competition And Their Implications For Strategy, Michael D. Ryall, Joshua S. Gans, Glenn Macdonald
The Two Sides Of Competition And Their Implications For Strategy, Michael D. Ryall, Joshua S. Gans, Glenn Macdonald
Michael D Ryall
We analyze value appropriation under competition using cooperative game theory and demonstrate that competition embodies two competing rivalries: to appropriate value on the one hand and to create it on the other. The management of this tension is central to strategy. We present a new notion of competitive intensity, show where the traditional view of competition leads one astray and introduce a new quantitative method by which practitioners may assess their strategic options.
Lettre Recommandée Électronique, Jacob Johnsen
Lettre Recommandée Électronique, Jacob Johnsen
Jacob Johnsen, MSc
Les principes et les avantages quand on se sert du courrier hybride pour les lettres recommandées.
Rebalancing The Board's Agenda, Donald Nordberg
Rebalancing The Board's Agenda, Donald Nordberg
Donald Nordberg
This paper is a draft of an article published in the Journal of General Management in 2007. Since the corporate governance scandals of 2001 and 2002, the work of boards of directors has been dominated by board processes and compliance, with a corresponding reduction in the emphasis on value creation. This discussion paper proposes a model for board activities and raises questions about how they can be rebalanced to provide greater emphasis on the board's strategic advisory role. It also looks at European governance issues, including the role of dual boards.
Cultural Entrepreneurship: Stories, Legitimacy And The Acquisition Of Resources., Michael Lounsbury, Mary Ann Glynn
Cultural Entrepreneurship: Stories, Legitimacy And The Acquisition Of Resources., Michael Lounsbury, Mary Ann Glynn
michael lounsbury
We define cultural entrepreneurship as the process of storytelling that mediates between extant stocks of entrepreneurial resources and subsequent capital acquisition and wealth creation. We propose a framework that focuses on how entrepreneurial stories facilitate the crafting of a new venture identity that serves as a touchstone upon which legitimacy may be conferred by investors, competitors, and consumers, opening up access to new capital and market opportunities. Stories help create competitive advantage for entrepreneurs through focal content shaped by two key forms of entrepreneurial capital: firm-specific resource capital and industry-level institutional capital. We illustrate our ideas with anecdotal entrepreneurial stories …
Strategy And Structure: Reconceiving The Relationship, Herman L. Boschken
Strategy And Structure: Reconceiving The Relationship, Herman L. Boschken
Herman L. Boschken
Discussions have drawn attention to the relationship between strategy and structure for much of the last quarter century. Yet, no firm basis has emerged to settle the issue of causal direction or to affirm the relationship's effects on organizational performance. By adding a new dimension to the strategy-structure model, this article attempts to conceptually link long-term performance with (a) the presence of subunits having distinctive competence in strategic planning and (b) the coordination of these differentiated subunits into a discernible micro-structure embedded within the overall organization. This new dimension is explored and developed by use of a case of the …