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Exploring Corporate Strategy

TL;DR: In this article, the authors bring together the underlying concepts, analytical methods, processes of development and problems of corporate strategy, enabling readers to understand the role of strategy within a variety of organizations and providing guidance in the formulation and implementation of strategy.
Abstract: This book brings together the underlying concepts, analytical methods, processes of development and problems of corporate strategy, enabling readers to understand the role of corporate strategy within a variety of organizations and providing guidance in the formulation and implementation of strategy. Features include: an approach based on economic analysis and planning, and organizational decision-making within a social, political and cultural process; a strongly European/international perspective, with more than 60 company illustrations; an integrated treatment of the cultural context of strategy; coverage of the increasingly important issues of power and process of strategy, formulation and change; a case section comprising 17 studies. The text includes diagrams of key frameworks, chapter introductions, end-of-section work assignments, references and key readings. Features new to the fourth edition include: competences, core competences and links to the value chain; bases of stategy at corporate and business level; global aspects of strategic management; corporate parenting and control; strategic architecture; networks, allians and virtual organizations; the strategic importance of information; and mechanisms of strategic change.
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TL;DR: This paper developed a model of destination competitiveness that will enable comparisons between countries and between tourism sector industries, while appreciating the special issues involved in exploring destination competitiveness as emphasised by tourism researchers.
Abstract: The paper develops a model of destination competitiveness that will enable comparisons between countries and between tourism sector industries. The model seeks to capture the main elements of competitiveness highlighted in the general literature, while appreciating the special issues involved in exploring the notion of destination competitiveness as emphasised by tourism researchers. Associated with the model is a set of indicators that can be used to measure the competitiveness of any given destination. These indicators, comprising both objective and subjective measures, were identified from the major elements comprising the generic destination competitiveness model and also from discussions at workshops held in Korea and Australia. This paper has four major objectives: to develop a model of destination competitiveness that identifies key success factors in determining destination competitiveness; to develop an appropriate set of indicators of destination competitiveness; to highlight the advantages and ...

1,364 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, a range of stakeholder identification and analysis techniques are reviewed, including organizing participation, creating ideas for strategic interventions, including problem formulation and solution search, building a winning coalition around proposal development, review and adoption, and implementing, monitoring and evaluating strategic interventions.
Abstract: This article focuses specifically on how and why managers might go about using stakeholder identification and analysis techniques in order to help their organizations meet their mandates, fulfill their missions and create public value. A range of stakeholder identification and analysis techniques is reviewed. The techniques cover: organizing participation; creating ideas for strategic interventions, including problem formulation and solution search; building a winning coalition around proposal development, review and adoption; and implementing, monitoring and evaluating strategic interventions. The article argues that wise use of stakeholder analyses can help frame issues that are solvable in ways that are technically feasible and politically acceptable and that advance the common good. The article concludes with a number of recommendations for management research, education and practice.

1,243 citations


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  • ...‘Those individuals or groups who depend on the organization to fulfill their own goals and on whom, in turn, the organization depends’ (Johnson and Scholes 2002: 206)....

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TL;DR: A reciprocal model of safety culture drawn from Social Cognitive Theory (Bandura, 1986) is offered in this article to provide both a theoretical and practical framework with which to measure and analyse safety culture.

1,204 citations

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TL;DR: In contrast to content-based models of corporate social responsibility (CSR), this article propose a process model of organizational sensemaking explaining how managers think, discuss, and act with respect to their key stakeholders and the world at large.
Abstract: In contrast to content-based models of corporate social responsibility (CSR), we propose a process model of organizational sensemaking explaining how managers think, discuss, and act with respect to their key stakeholders and the world at large. We also propose a set of cognitive, linguistic, and conative dimensions to identify such an intrinsic orientation that guides CSR-related activities. Recognizing patterns of interrelationships among these dimensions might lead to a better understanding of a firm's CSR impact and generate a rich research agenda that links key organizational features to CSR character.

1,159 citations

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TL;DR: An overview of the origins of technology roadmapping is provided by means of a brief review of the technology and knowledge management foundations of the technique in the context of the fields of technology strategy and technology transitions.

1,091 citations


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  • ...The rapidly increasing literature on roadmapping itself is presented in terms of a taxonomy for classifying roadmaps, in terms of both organizational purpose and graphical format....

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