Showing papers in "European Management Journal in 1997"

TL;DR: By identifying and measuring the essential organizational characteristics and management practices that promote organizational learning, one could develop a benchmark of learning capability that would enable managers to design interventions to overcome specific barriers in building a learning organization.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that language needs to be considered as an important element in managing multinationals because it permeates virtually every aspect of their business activities and that multinationals need to ensure that language does not become a peripheral, or forgotten, issue; rather, it should be viewed in more strategic terms.

TL;DR: The competence movement as discussed by the authors is a movement to make strategy theory more relevant to contemporary forms of competition by rethinking both the content and process of strategic management theory and practice, and it advocates reconnecting strategy researchers and strategic managers in an interactive double-loop learning process.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the underlying imperatives driving the trend toward eco-efficiency and asset recovery at the firm level, and show how the enormous potential for adding value while reducing material inputs can be realized in almost every sector of the economy.

TL;DR: Nohria and Gulati as discussed by the authors argue that slack is neither inherently destructive to an organization, nor is it a fail-safe cure, and instead they argue that instead of focusing on whether slack has a uniformly positive or negative effect on innovation, theorists and managers should instead ask the question, "What is the optimal amount of slack?"

TL;DR: In this article, a systematic approach to the analysis and classification of business-related Internet strategies, as well as a framework to guide the strategy-building process of companies aiming at redesigning or innovating their products and services in the light of new opportunities and competitive pressures generated by the spread of the Internet is presented.

TL;DR: In this article, the value chain is reinterpreted in stakeholder terms, and a method of analysis for key stakeholder relationships is explained, and general principles for conceptualizing a value chain in relational terms are suggested.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focused on the dependent variables used for business or marketing "success", not its drivers, in seven leading marketing and strategy journals and found that researcher, not respondent, views of performance dominate the literature which raises issues of relevance.

TL;DR: The Modular Consortia approach to production being implemented by such leading-edge automotive manufacturers as Skoda and Volkswagen, is one of the latest experiments in manufacturer-supplier relationships.

TL;DR: As a merchant of foresight, the knowledge activist finally provides overall direction to the knowledge creation taking place in various microcommunities, and the authors warn of three possible misconceptions and pitfalls of knowledge activism.

TL;DR: Romme and Dillen as mentioned in this paper map the landscape of organizational learning by providing an overview of some of the key issues and arguments in the literature, including contingency theory, psychology, information theory and system dynamics.

TL;DR: The role of scenarios in strategic management is studied from a cognitive perspective and it appears that scenarios can deal effectively with several bottlenecks that potentially hinder organisational learning on a strategic level in organisations.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that the basic mechanism precipitating a shift from one basis to another is when the trajectory of improvement which product developers achieve is steeper than, and hence surpasses, the trajectories of performance improvement which customers in the market demand, or can absorb.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss why managers are turning to EVA as a performance metric, how EVA is used by companies, and the problems that typically arise in implementing it.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors define a "flagship firm" as a multinational enterprise which has taken on the strategic leadership of a business network consisting of four other partners: key suppliers, key customers, selected competitors and the non-business infrastructure.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight the fact that project marketing and system selling mainly consist in the management of a firm's relationships to a local network of business and non-business actors, named the milieu, which forms the basis of a twin-track approach aiming at maximizing the firm's chances of success on on-going projects.

TL;DR: McBride et al. as discussed by the authors suggest that organisations join the Internet without considering its role in their strategy and suggest that firms' reasons for joining, expected benefits and strategy are driven more by their perceptions of the Internet as providing a new market place and offering leading-edge technology rather than any cool-headed consideration of its value to the firm.

TL;DR: Parker and Kim as mentioned in this paper investigated the impact of advertising on market power across brands and found that heavy advertising among national brands can increase prices, revenues, and profits for both national brands and private-label brands.

TL;DR: In this paper, the Harnessed Waterfall generates superior CVA through improved customer satisfaction and business process excellence, and the profit tree analysis (PTA) assists management in building and deploying profitable growth strategies for obtaining the desired CVA-position.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the current position of the Greek economy, its business environment and firms, noting a duality of extremes between family-owned firms and the subsidiaries of multinationals, and report the results of a large survey of Greek executive officers seeking their views on the current and future state of Greek management.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide an up-to-the-minute view of European top managers' perceptions of key strategic issues; whether acquiring in Europe is still a strategic priority, the advantages and disadvantages of using cross-border acquisitions, what makes a good target and in what ways advisors can assist in the process.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a model for change management based on a collation of best practices from several organizations, focusing on five key success factors thought to be the drivers for successful change: commitment, social and cultural issues, communication, tools and methodology and interactions.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of three different segmentation approaches to the Chinese consumer market: geographic, demographic and psychographic/lifestyles segmentation is presented, and the BAT Chair is the first chair ever donated to a business school in China.

TL;DR: Markides and Singh as mentioned in this paper argue that restructuring may be brought about by honest managerial mistakes in the choice of organizational structure rather than managerial excesses allowed by poor corporate governance, and they further argue that these managerial mistakes are not identified and corrected in time because restructuring firms lack the appropriate internal controls.

TL;DR: Camillus as mentioned in this paper reviewed the early evolution of strategic management and pointed out their weaknesses in the face of massive discontinuous change, both external and internal to the company, and explained new forms of organization have arisen in the current climate of change which are better explained by a transformational paradigm which is pro-active and well-suited to bridge discontinuities.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the role of intangible assets in the core competencies of businesses and how these assets can be protected from losing value over time, and how to ensure their safety.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the transfer of culturally-grounded management techniques, in this case BPR, making specific reference to the German business and cultural context, and examine the impact of reengineering on the German economy.