Business Strategy Series: Volume 9 Issue 1

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Setting strategic direction: a top down or bottom up process?

Malcolm Brady, Aidan Walsh

The paper examines the process by which the strategic direction of an organization is set. The paper asks if strategic direction is defined and set at the top of the organization…

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Service strategies in product manufacturing companies

Heiko Gebauer, Carlos Bravo‐Sanchez, Elgar Fleisch

The purpose of this paper is to emphasize how different service strategies are properly aligned with the external environment, and how organizational factors lead to a specific…

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Strategic options: a new tool for managing in turbulent environments

Michael E. Raynor

The purpose of this paper is to describe a new way to manage strategic uncertainty, and more specifically to distinguish between “growth options” and “strategic options.”

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Identifying the competitive sword: learning to be cutting‐edge for organizational development

Roland K. Yeo

The purpose of this paper is to discuss several organizational learning frameworks based on Peter Senge's “fifth discipline”. It further explains the antecedent conditions of…

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Porter's business strategies in Japan

Richard S. Allen, Marilyn M. Helms, Holly Jones, Margaret B. Takeda, Charles S. White

The Japanese government is promoting a move towards a variety of generic business strategies based on the Porter Prize as a way to regain global competitiveness and end their long…

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ISSN:

1751-5637

Online date, start – end:

2007 – 2013

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Emerald Publishing Limited