Repeated calls have been made for a general theory of strategic management that will enhance research, teaching, and application of subject matter in the area. This paper presents a social learning theory of strategic management (SLTSM) that encompasses earlier attempts to explain strategic management and offers a distinctive conceptual framework. SLTSM links the interdependent elements of executive cognition, stimulus and consequence environments, and strategic behaviors, through reciprocal determinism, providing a unique perspective on strategic management.

A Social Learning Approach to Strategic Management: Toward a Theoretical Foundation

Although strategic management is beginning to be considered by many profitmaking organizations today, it is seldom considered by voluntary organizations. When we think of organizations that are poorly managed over the long-term, have few or no long-range goals or goal structures (or ones that are ill-defined), and have different constraining characteristics than profit-making organizations (Newman and Wallender, 1978), we generally think of organizations such

A Radical Shift From Bureaucracy To Strategic Management in Voluntary Organizations

An examination and a prospectus of strategic management research in urban and environmental organizations

A lot of studies have been made on new product development process to make it an ideal procedure and many researchers have contributed significantly to achieve this by studying various factors associated with it. In this study, an attempt has been made to predict the optimal numbers of new products produced by electronics and metal & machinery industry by considering various factors those significantly affects the production pattern of these industries. For prediction purposes, functional linked artificial neural network (FLANN) with and without nature-inspired techniques have been used and comparison of performance for both the models have been done by using mean square error (MSE) and mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) as the measurement indices. Development of an Efficient Prediction Model Based on a Nature-Inspired Technique for New Products: A Case of Industries From the Manufacturing Sector

Development of an Efficient Prediction Model Based on a Nature-Inspired Technique for New Products: A Case of Industries From the Manufacturing Sector

Current concepts and theories of strategic management in not-for-profit organizations☆

Strategic management: A new managerial concept for an era of rapid change

The influence of surface irregularity on optical system wavefront performance is well established, but typically irregularity analysis and specifications are limited to peak-to-valley or 3rd-order Seidel terms. As optical assembly wavefront specifications become tighter, higher order irregularity may need to be considered, particularly for surfaces away from the system pupil. This work presents a case study of an optical system with tightly controlled wavefront Zernike terms across the field. Using as-built diagnostic testing and optical modeling incorporating Fringe Zernike surface irregularity, higher order rotationally symmetric irregularities are determined to be the root-cause of specific wavefront Zernike failure modes. Sensitivity and tolerancing analysis are used to determine the required surface specification and provide feedback to the fabrication process, improving system first-pass yield.

Charles H. Granger

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Strategic management: A new managerial concept for an era of rapid change

Impact of higher order surface irregularity on system-level wavefront variation across the field