Download or read book Strategic Choices in Converging Industries written by Fredrik Hacklin and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Strategic Choices written by Kenneth I. Primozic and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1995 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Anticipation of Converging Industries written by Clive-Steven Curran and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The blurring of boundaries between hitherto distinct scientific disciplines, technologies or markets is a common and powerful phenomenon. Subjects of this convergence often change consumer behaviours, favouring products and platforms with multiple functions. The Anticipation of Converging Industries provides a detailed focus on the triggers, drivers and consequences of convergence to create a more concise definition of convergence. This detailed analysis includes a specifically developed toolbox for ‘convergence foresight’, creating a forecasting method for convergence trends. With the focus on the chemical, biotechnological and pharmaceutical industries, several indicators of convergence in the areas of Nutraceuticals/Functional Foods, Cosmeceuticals and ICT are derived from samples including over 1million patents and scientific publications. By supporting this methodical approach with real world data, The Anticipation of Converging Industries is perfect for industry practitioners looking for a competitive edge in the present and for the future. Similarly, academics will find a comprehensive theoretical concept for better understanding the underlying rationale of convergence at their disposal

Download or read book Competing Across Boundaries written by Ravi Mantena and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information technology industries are often characterized by fluid boundaries, wherein firms do not compete merely with others within their own industry, but face a competitive threat from companies in other adjacent industries. This is often driven by a change over time in the scope of capabilities associated with an underlying technology, and the move towards infrastructures that are more general purpose and platform-based. Recent examples of boundaries blurring include those between the mobile computing and cellular device industries, and between the cable television and wireline voice telephony industries. As a consequence, IT industries are not described well by standard models of imperfect competition, in which the costs of entry, the scope of a product and the boundaries between industries are immutable.We study this phenomenon by developing a model of competition across IT industries with strategic choices of technological scope by firms in neighboring industries. The choice of scope affects both the extent of product differentiation for incumbent IT firms as well as the fixed costs of entry by new ones. Our analysis establishes unique symmetric equilibrium choices of scope and price, both in the absence and the presence of potential competition caused by convergence from outside one's own industry. We show that the right strategic response to a threat of convergence may be to either deter convergence in their core industry, or accommodate it while entering the neighboring industry, and that technological scope is a central strategic variable in accommodation or deterrence. We establish that the benefits of convergence to consumers can be realized before the convergence across industries actually occurs, due to preemptive responses to the threat of convergence by firms within each industry. We analyze a game of bilateral inter-industry convergence to show how gradual progress in an underlying technology can result in radical switches between isolated industries and convergent industries equilibria, leading to the periodic and sudden shifts in industry concentration and firm profitability even in the absence of technological shocks. Such shifts have been observed during the competitive crash in the computer industry, and are likely to recur in the near future on account of voice and video convergence.

Download or read book The Power of Convergence written by Faisal Hoque and published by AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn. This book was released on 2011 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enterprises fail when they neglect to converge impressive technology initiatives with actionable business strategies. Learn how to leverage technology as an important tool for addressing customer needs and advancing business goals.

Download or read book Competing in Times of Convergence written by Marina Shchipanova and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis is focused on how firms use strategic alliances when competing in converging environments. I use a case study approach, combined with the research method of abduction. The companies chosen for case studies are Nokia, Apple and Google. In the recent years they have made some strategic choices that resulted in them becoming direct competitors. The industry where they are facing each other is mobile Internet services. An important element of their related strategies has been the use of strategic alliances. My goal is to explore and understand the motives behind their alliance strategies in the context of convergence. As the theoretical base of this thesis, I utilize theories on convergence, strategic alliances, and the compound product-service offering framework. I identify main points that would help me address the research question. For the empirical base, I use information on the case companies' strategies related to the mobile Internet services. Through the lens of the above mentioned theories, I identify the main trends and offer explanations on the industry developments and the alliance strategies. The main findings of this thesis are: 1) The case companies are now in direct competition with each other within the mobile Internet services industry. 2) The industry is undergoing a turbulent stage, accompanied by a search for a dominant platform. 3) The case companies are actively forming alliances with companies that possess complementary competences in the context of the industry. 4) The case companies are also forming industry-wide consortia in order to emerge as leaders in the search for a dominant platform. 5) In the context of the mobile Internet services industry, alliances are a necessity rather than just a strategic choice. Without them, the industry as a whole would not thrive.

Download or read book Fundamentals of Strategy written by Gerry Johnson and published by Pearson UK. This book was released on 2017-12-13 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author team of the market-leading text Exploring Strategy, comes a new edition of Fundamentals of Strategy. Designed to help student and business executives boost their academic and professional careers, Fundamentals of Strategy is the most concise and easy to follow overview of the fundamental issues and techniques of strategy. Fundamentals of Strategy, 4th edition · Delivers the essential concepts and techniques of strategy in a new 8 chapter structure. This allows additional space to unpack the fundamentals in depth, and at times more critically. · Revamped final chapter on ‘Strategy in action’, raising implementation issues such as organisational structure, management processes and strategic change · Covers up-to-date topics including business models, sustainability and entrepreneurial start-ups. · Engages the reader with real-world strategy problems and provides insights and strategy examples from a wide range of international organisations. · New and updated cases and illustrations featuring small and large organisations from profit and not-for-profit sectors and operating all over the world. · Links to online support material.

Download or read book Communication Yearbook 40 written by Elisia L. Cohen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Communication Yearbook 40 completes four decades of publishing state-of-the-discipline literature reviews and essays. In the final Communication Yearbook volume, editor Elisia L. Cohen includes chapters representing international and interdisciplinary scholarship, demonstrating the broad global interests of the International Communication Association. The contents include summaries of communication research programs that represent the most innovative work currently. Emphasizing timely disciplinary concerns and enduring theoretical questions, this volume will be valuable to scholars throughout the communication discipline and beyond.

Download or read book Strategies of Integration in Converging Industries written by Christophe F. Maire and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Exploring Strategy written by Gerry Johnson and published by Pearson UK. This book was released on 2020 with total page 1022 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over one million copies sold worldwide, Exploring Strategy has long been the essential strategy text for managers of today and tomorrow. From entrepreneurial start-ups to multinationals, charities to government agencies, this book raises the big questions about organisations- how they grow, how they innovate and how they change.

Download or read book Exploring Strategy Text and Cases 12th Edition written by Gerry Johnson and published by Pearson UK. This book was released on 2019 with total page 1490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring Strategy, 12th Edition, by Whittington, Angwin, Regner, Johnson and Scholes has long been the essential introduction to strategy for the managers of today and tomorrow and has sold over one million copies worldwide. From entrepreneurial start-ups to multinationals, charities to government agencies, this book raises the big questions ab.

Download or read book A Stakeholder Approach to Managing Food written by Adam Lindgreen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-08-05 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research anthology explores the concept of food production and supply, from farm gate to plate, bringing together contemporary thinking and research on local, national, and global issues from a stakeholder perspective. A Stakeholder Approach to Managing Food includes a number of sections to represent these challenges, opportunities, conflicts, and cohesions affecting relevant stakeholder groups within food production and supply and their reaction to, engagement with, and co-creation of the food environment. For some, local, national, and global interests may seem at odds. We are in an era of growing and pervasive multi-national corporations, and these corporations have significant influence at all levels. Rapidly growing economies such as China are a focus for the global brand, but is this a scenario of adaptation or homogenization of food? Alongside this trend toward national and global development in food, this volume presents the counter-reaction that is taking place (especially in developed countries) toward local speciality and culturally bound foods, with emphasis on the importance of the inter-connection of local communities and agri-food culture and economy. With an in-depth analysis of agricultural businesses, this book shows that the entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well in rural communities with often renewed and engaged connection with consumers and imaginative use of new media. This book will be of interest to students, researchers and policy-makers concerned with agriculture, food production and economics, cultural studies.

Download or read book The Art of Strategy written by Hwy-Chang Moon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-09 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel integration and extension of two global strategy classics: Sun Tzu's military strategy and Michael Porter's business strategy.

Download or read book Ambidextrous Strategy written by Agnieszka Zakrzewska-Bielawska and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strategies of enterprises evolve with the development of strategic management theory and new concepts, models, and outlooks that emerge with it. The concept of ambidexterity is a relatively new approach to business development strategies, which involves simultaneous exploration and exploitation activities to ensure the success of the company and a relatively sustainable competitive advantage. This begs the question as to whether the ambidextrous strategy is the right choice for all enterprises, and if not, what determines its choice. This book identifies and systematizes antecedents for choosing ambidextrous strategy, including factors related to the uncertainty of the environment, its dynamics, complexity, and unpredictability, intra-organizational factors, those related to resources, organizational structure, and behavioral context, as well as those related to strategic leadership. It examines the outcomes of implementing ambidexterity from the perspective of financial and market performance and assesses the choices of companies operating in Poland from the perspective of the impact that particular antecedents had and the outcomes achieved, providing knowledge and guidance on the circumstances in which choosing the ambidextrous strategy brings the best results. The book presents the research findings to date, the cognitive gaps that still exist, and the directions for further research. It is intended for scientific circles, doctoral and management students and a wide range of managers, who have to make difficult strategic choices aimed, on the one hand, at increasing the efficiency of the company and, on the other, at seeking new paths of growth.

Download or read book The Strategy Planning Process written by Rudolf Grünig and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-18 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developing future strategies for a company is an important and complex task, and forms the core issue in this book. A company’s strategy defines its future direction, specifying its desired market position and key competitive advantages both at the level of market offers and of resources. This book provides clear, straightforward advice for professionals: after a brief introduction to strategic planning, a heuristic process for determining future strategies is presented. It shows how to analyze a company’s current situation, develop and assess options for the future, and define implementation projects. Throughout the book, detailed recommendations are illustrated with the help of numerous concrete examples. As a result of studying applications of the book in practice, the second edition benefits from a simplified, hands-on analysis and planning process at the business level.

Download or read book Managing Alliance Portfolios and Networks written by T. K. Das and published by IAP. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managing Alliance Portfolios and Networks is a volume in the book series Research in Strategic Alliances that focuses on providing a robust and comprehensive forum for new scholarship in the field of strategic alliances. In particular, the books in the series cover new views of interdisciplinary theoretical frameworks and models, significant practical problems of alliance organization and management, and emerging areas of inquiry. The series also includes comprehensive empirical studies of selected segments of business, economic, industrial, government, and non-profit activities with wide prevalence of strategic alliances. Through the ongoing release of focused topical titles, this book series seeks to disseminate theoretical insights and practical management information that should enable interested professionals to gain a rigorous and comprehensive understanding of the field of strategic alliances. Managing Alliance Portfolios and Networks contains contributions by leading scholars in the field of strategic alliance research. The 9 chapters in this volume deal with significant issues relating to the management of alliance portfolios and alliance networks. These issues range from value creation in alliance ecosystems, management lessons from social enterprise, and a configurational perspective on alliance management capabilities, to the competition dynamics of alliance networks, internationalization of an alliance portfolio, and structural embeddedness of alliance networks during industry convergence. The chapters contain empirical as well as conceptual treatments of the selected topics, and collectively present a wide-ranging review of the noteworthy research perspectives on managing alliance portfolios and alliance networks.

Download or read book Strategy and Communication for Innovation written by Nicole Pfeffermann and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-06 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This contributed volume presents a state-of-the-art compendium for startups and corporations, focusing on corporate ventures. The book is based on the volume "Strategy and Communication for Innovation" and includes up-to-date discussions which help to better understand strategy and communication from a startup perspective. Each chapter offers a starting point for the exchange of ideas, key lessons and new insights from entrepreneurial perspectives such as e-ventures, corporate ventures and traditional ventures. Readers with an interest in innovation management will benefit from this book.