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Strategic planning in the small business: The procedure in three corporations
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In this article, the authors considered some of the important characteristics of strategy and summarized the findings of a recent research program on strategy at the Stanford Business School, and reported on the application of these research findings to three small but growing companies in order to develop strategies for them.About:
This article is published in Business Horizons.The article was published on 1971-08-01. It has received 20 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Strategic planning & Strategic thinking.read more
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Research Thrusts in Small Firm Strategic Planning
TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed over 50 planning-related studies from small firm settings and identified four major research thrusts from this literature, and summarized key issues and findings associated with each thrust, and future research guidelines are derived.
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Strategic management: New ventures and small business
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the factors influencing the formulation and implementation of strategy in new and small firms and show that small businesses vary substantially in their resource positions, the goals of their founders and their potential.
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The Importance of “Outsiders” in Small Firm Strategic Planning
TL;DR: In this article, the value of outsider-based strategic planning for small firms is empirically examined using a sample of firms engaging in outsider based planning and two control groups, and the effectiveness of outsider based strategic planning is evaluated.
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Strategic awareness, personal commitment and the process of planning in the small business
Allan Gibb,Michael E Scott +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a detailed study of sixteen small companies based in the northern region of the U.K. was carried out to evaluate the impact of different types of software support on the development process.
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Small Business Failure and Survey of the Literature
TL;DR: The failure of small businesses has serious implications for employment in m... as discussed by the authors, who is acting head of the Department of Commerce of the James Cook University of North Queensland, Australia.
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