Download or read book Diversification Industry Dynamism and Economic Performance written by Matthias Knecht and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The decision to diversify lies at the core of corporate strategy and is one of the most important decisions for top management. Matthias Knecht introduces a new perspective on corporate diversification that extends the academic discussion and reveals substantial new insights with regards to one of the most pressing questions in strategic management: what makes a diversification strategy successful? The author introduces the dynamism of industries as the dominant force in the firm’s environment that influences the organization on all levels. Due to strategic, organizational, and managerial similarities of businesses competing in similar dynamic environments, synergistic benefits and superior economic performance can be realized through the combination of dynamic-related businesses in the corporate portfolio. This study provides a quantitative, multidimensional operationalization of industry dynamism and an in-depth assessment of the dynamism of a wide range of industries. At the core of the study lies the investigation of the performance impact of dynamic-related diversification strategies. The results provide new insights into successful portfolio construction strategies in the face of today’s dynamic environments.
Download or read book Handbook of Research on Managerial Strategies for Achieving Optimal Performance in Industrial Processes written by Alor-Hernández, Giner and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 707 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Competitive advantage is a key factor to the success of any business in modern society. To achieve this goal, effective strategies for process improvement must be researched and implemented into an organization. The Handbook of Research on Managerial Strategies for Achieving Optimal Performance in Industrial Processes examines optimization techniques for improved business operations and procedures in the industrial sector. Highlighting management techniques, innovative approaches, and technological tools, this publication is an essential reference source for professionals, researchers, consultants, upper-level students, and academicians interested in the advancement of knowledge in industrial communities.
Download or read book Strategic Management Competitiveness and Globalisation written by Dallas Hanson and published by Cengage AU. This book was released on 2016-09-29 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an emphasis on global advantage, the text offers a comprehensive examination of regional and international issues to provide a complete, accurate and up-to-date explanation of the strategic management process. New coverage on environmental concerns and emerging technologies as well as examples and cases from Australia, New Zealand and Asia-Pacific serve to engage students while updated international content demonstrates how strategic management is used in the global economy. The text takes a 'resource-based' approach, which requires the examining of a firm's unique bundling of its internal resources. This text is appropriate for upper-level undergrad, usually third year; post grad in Masters courses.
Download or read book Strategic Management written by Peter FitzRoy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-19 with total page 653 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strategy is often the capstone class in a business education - dealing with the big questions of what companies decide to do - innovate, diversify, acquire or even to employ a range of these strategies. Benefitting from an international author team, the latest edition of this textbook stands out in its global perspective. With an emphasis on value creation, integration of financial considerations alongside coverage of areas that are often missed in competitor texts, such as financial implications for strategy, corporate governance and business ethics. The book also integrates a wide range of in-depth case studies, including Siemens AG, Intel, the Volkswagen Group, PerkinElmer and the Tata Group. Supplemented by a wide range of cutting edge online case studies and other internet resources, this text will provide students and their instructors with everything they need to succeed in this tough environment.
Download or read book Enhancing Business Stability Through Collaboration written by Ari Kuncoro and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Business practices in emerging markets are constantly challenged by the dynamic environments that involve stakeholders. This increases the interconnectedness and collaboration as well as spillover effect among business agents, that may increase or hold back economic stability. This phenomenon is captured in this proceedings volume, a collection of selected papers of the 10th ICBMR 2016 Conference, held October 25—27, 2016 in Lombok, Indonesia. This ICBMR’s theme was Enhancing Business Stability through Collaboration, and the contributions discuss theories, conceptual frameworks and empirical evidence of current issues in the areas of Business, Management, Finance, Accounting, Economics, Islamic Economics, and competitiveness. All topics include aspects of multidisciplinarity and complexity of safety in research and education.
Download or read book Competitive Strategies for Small and Medium Enterprises written by Klaus North and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-19 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a timely guide for Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) researchers, policy makers and strategists. SMEs are the most important sources of job creation and local development especially in knowledge-based economies. As turbulence in the globalized economies expands SMEs will have to learn to sustain competitiveness by developing their ‘dynamic capabilities’. Based on the findings of a 4-year European and Latin American research project, this book provides a theoretical framework, practical instruments and cases on how SMEs in diverse economic, social and cultural contexts can develop crisis resilience, increase agility, innovate and thus successfully compete in turbulent times.
Download or read book Real Options and Strategic Technology Venturing written by Caroline M. Sipp and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-11-19 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to answer “why, when and how are real options used in strategic technology venturing?” This work tests for the role of real options in decision making involving three types of firms in decreasing order of technology-dependence – technology-driven (TD) (where the profit is fully dependent on new technology creation and leveraging), technology-based (TB) (where the profit is enabled and supported by technology) and technology-neutral (TN) (where the profit is almost independent of technology). It also deals with strategic and non-strategic types of decisions driven by real options. This analysis shows that an environment presenting co-opetitive (simultaneous competition and collaboration) conditions triggers the use of real options (why), that serve to transform the position, posture and propensity of businesses to innovate and thus they co-evolve (when) into more effective and efficient forms of businesses (co-specialization) (how). The authors demonstrate that embracing risk and uncertainty can increase levels and probability of new venture formation. However, their simulation also shows that it should be adapted to the risk profile of the firm and that timing is also a factor to be considered. Although engaging the concepts of real options, this analysis does not focus on a specific investment valuation methodology, but highlights the relationship between knowledge and risk and rather addresses the management of mindsets, as moving towards a systematic conceptualization of real options represents a different paradigm in decision making.
Download or read book New Perspectives on the Modern Corporation written by Angelo Dringoli and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the conditions for growth that can create value for shareholders, focusing on the main strategies adopted by firms including horizontal expansion, vertical integration and product diversification. To evaluate whether or not a particular growth strategy is successful, the author examines the economic fundamentals of each strategy and presents analytical models of both internal development and external acquisition. He moves on to present four case studies of successful companies to highlight how a firm chooses and implements a defined growth strategy. This stimulating integrated analysis will appeal to researchers and students in business administration as well as managers, entrepreneurs and consultants involved in strategic management.--publisher description.
Download or read book African American Management History written by Leon C. Prieto and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most successful business leaders always have their own compelling philosophies, but all too often the thoughts and ideologies of high-profile African American leaders are forgotten or passed over. This exciting new study reflects on some of the leading black business pioneers of the late 19th and early 20th century.
Download or read book Business Groups in the West written by Asli M. Colpan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume aims to explore the evolution of large enterprises in today's developed economies in the West. It focuses on the economic institution of the business group and understanding the factors behind its rise, growth, resilience, and/or fall; its behavioural and organizational characteristics; and its contributions to economic development.
Download or read book Understanding Strategic Management written by Anthony E. Henry and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding Strategic Management is the ideal introduction to strategy for students in one-semester courses who require an informative yet practical approach. The book's four-part structure defines the concept of strategy before using the overarching strategic framework of analysis, formulation, and implementation to show how strategy can be used to develop a sustainable competitive advantage in business. Making use of chapter maps and learning objectives to guide students through the complexities of the subject, the author conveys the realities of strategic management through a diverse selection of international and contemporary examples. "Strategy in Focus" boxes use examples from popular media to show how strategic management issues appear in the headlines we read every day. A longer, integrated "Case Example" closes every chapter, tying in multiple strategic challenges that affect businesses of all kinds. Review and discussion questions then encourage students to be critical of the material and to evaluate its strengths and weaknesses. Students may extend their learning with additional material available in the online resources. Written by the author, Extension Material is broken up by chapter. Unique "Working through Strategy" materials give students opportunities to practice essential techniques such as PEST analysis and scenario planning. ONLINE RESOURCES For students: *Internet exercises *Glossary *Extension Material *Working through Strategy *Multiple-choice questions *Additional recommended resources For lecturers: *Test bank *Further case material *Answers to discussion questions *PowerPoint slides *Figures and tables from the book
Download or read book The European Corporation written by Richard Whittington and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The evolving strategies and structure of large European firms are examined in a comparative and historical context, and in the context of a range of hypotheses associated with Alfred Chandler.
Download or read book Strategy and Organization written by Loizos Heracleous and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-08-07 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining some of the new and emerging issues in strategic management, Loizos Heracleous offers a fresh approach to the established ideas of strategy. Beginning with the historical development of the strategy field, including the influence of industrial organisation and the resource-based view, he develops a new perspective labelled an 'organisational action' view of strategy. This approach is theoretically underlain by organisation theory and takes seriously such issues as the role of agency, the need for a longitudinal focus on process, the complexities of strategy implementation, and organisational facets such as strategic choice, organisational culture, organisational discourses and learning. Combining theoretical subtlety with an applied orientation, Heracleous examines topical areas such as corporate governance, inter-organisational networks, and organising for the future. With original research and extensive surveys of the strategy literature, combined with a strong practical orientation, this book is ideal for MBA students, strategy researchers and the more thoughtful practitioner.
Download or read book EBOOK Crafting and Executing Strategy The Quest for Competitive Advantage Concepts and Cases written by Arthur Thompson and published by McGraw Hill. This book was released on 2013-02-16 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crafting and Executing Strategy has been revised and updated specifically with its European readers in mind. Building upon the success of previous editions, it continues to explain the core concepts and key theories in strategy and illustrate them with practical, managerial examples students can really relate to. Brand new features have been developed to encourage readers to go beyond learning and to apply their knowledge to from a diverse range of real-life scenarios including global brands, SMEs, public sector and not-for-profit organizations.
Download or read book The Institutional Construction of Organizations written by W. Richard Scott and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1995-08-08 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Institutional theory is on the rise. During the past three decades, the field of organization studies has witnessed a succession of theoretical perspectives--including contingency theory, resource dependency, and population ecology--that focus attention on one or another aspect of organizations. Only institutional theory highlights the importance of the wider social and cultural environment as the "ground" in which organizations are rooted. The original work in The Institutional Construction of Organizations sheds new light on the study of organizations. The editors bring together work from two different research traditions--the United States and Europe. The collection also layers in several important perspectives of institutional theory, including empirical observations, longitudinal analyses, market-based organizational forms, and attention to the concepts of agency and strategy. The result is a finely textured, fully developed work for scholars and advanced students of organizational theory and behavior.
Download or read book Conglomerate Diversification and Strategic Leadership written by Pasquale Massimo Picone and published by G Giappichelli Editore. This book was released on 2017 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Understanding Strategic Management written by Anthony Henry and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2008 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This succinct textbook takes students through the key stages of strategic management: analysis, formulation, and implementation, with an emphasis on providing students with the essential tools of analysis.
