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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"Strategic orientation"”.
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Performance implications of corporate real estate strategic orientation
A central concept in strategic management is that congruence between organizational resources and environmental conditions is critical to performance. There are three basic types of organizational resources: human, monetary, and physical. How well a fIrm allocates these resources in pursuit of its …
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A Determination of the Association of Competition and Regulation With Hospital Strategic Orientation
… major forces, competition and regulation, on the strategic orientation of hospitals. This is a particularly relevant subject, as the effectiveness of competition versus the effectiveness of regulation in the health care market has been called one of the Bellwether issues in health care policy, and …
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Strategic orientation and organizational performance of small firms in Malta: a grounded theory approach.
… little is understood on how small firms behave strategically and how the more common patterns of strategic behaviour relate to different levels of organizational performance. The following thesis aims at mapping out the strategic behaviour of small firms in the small island state of Malta, and …
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The relationship between strategic orientation and firm performance : evidence from small and medium enterprises in Malaysia
… has highlighted the importance of the concept of strategic orientation or ‘strategic directions implemented by a firm to create proper behaviours for the continuous superior performance of a business (Gatingnon and Xuereb 1997, p.78). This study seeks to determine if strategic orientation can help …
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Strategic orientation, distinctive competences and multinationality profiles of businesses: an examination of the U.S. pharmaceutical industry
… empirically examined the relationship between strategic orientation of an organization and the overseas activities it pursues. It is argued that the nature and extent of an organization’s overseas involvement will be a function of its dominant strategic orientation and the distinctive …
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Patterns of change in strategic orientation: a study of the U.S. oil industry from 1967 to 1986
… literature as to how organizations change their strategic orientations in response to changes in the size of the niche in which they operate. Strategic orientation is measured in terms of the degree to which a firm is either Prospector-like or Defender-like as devined by Miles and Snow (1978). …
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Executive characteristics, strategic orientation and organizational performance: a study of relationships in the U.S. electronic computing equipment industry
… profiles would be associated with different strategic postures. The rationale for this proposition was derived from previous empirical and theoretical evidence which suggests that since different strategies emphasize different organizational competences, they can be best implemented by …
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The Effect of Strategic Orientation and Adaptability on Organizational Behaviors and Performance: The Case of Electronic Commerce in the Hosiery Industry
… adoption of Electronic Commerce. The use of the Strategic Orientation of Business Enterprises (STROBE) construct (Venkatraman, 1989a) and a rigorous development of an adaptability index are important components of this research. The STROBE construct has been used only twice before for comparative …
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Perceived environment, strategic orientation, ownership effect and performance implications in a transition economy: an empirical study in the People's Republic of China
… and firm strategy. A review of the literature on strategic management reveals that this relationship is moderated by other contextual variables, and that these contextual variables have not been systematically studied. The major focus of this study was to examine the impact of an important …
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Exploration of the relationship between market information resource and new product development: the role of strategic orientation as an integrating mechanism in micro and small firms
Research has shown a firm’s strategic orientation can impact its performance, especially in a hostile or difficult environment. The agri-food industry in Northern Ireland is facing pressures with unstable markets, increased taxation and increased competition. The adverse impact of environmental …
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What mediates the effects of market orientation on performance? : the case of high technology companies in South Africa
Conventional market orientation philosophy holds that behavioural and philosophical/cultural aspects of marketing are fundamental to an organisation. Prior research on strategic orientation in marketing research has focused on the construct of market orientation, which has been shown to have strong …
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Firm strategy and knowledge management in strategic supply chain relationships : a knowledge-based view
… to understand the relationship between firm strategic orientation and interorganizational knowledge management in strategic supply chain alliances of high technology firms. Unique to prior literature, this study relates three dimensions of strategic orientation (alliance, leadership, and …
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What mediates the effects of market orientation on performance?: the case of high technology companies in South Africa
Conventional market orientation philosophy holds that behavioural and philosophical cultural aspects of marketing are fundamental to an organisation. Prior research on strategic orientation in marketing research has focused on the construct of market orientation, which has been shown to have strong …
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An investigation of the relationship between value chain activities and generic strategies in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in UK manufacturing
… The overall aim of this study is to analyse the strategic orientation of UK Manufacturing SMEs. In the process, it will test Porter’s (1980, 1985) theoretical framework of generic strategies and thus evaluate firms’ preferred strategic synthesis. It will, therefore, test the efficacy of the value …
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Corporate turnarounds as strategic reorientations: A field study of turnaround attempts from firm-based decline
… with declining firms (a) changing their strategic orientation, (b) changing their strategic decision makers, (c) maintaining enough slack resources to enact strategic change and (d) being able to combine several or all three of these factors in one turnaround attempt.
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Strategic orientations in practice:Exploring the strategic belief structures of line-managers embedded in practice
… have started to investigate the cognitive strategic orientations of individual top managers and have pointed out these may be key in determining the direction and success of their organizations in terms of performance, but they have been unable to effectively operationalize this notion in …
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The strategic management of technology as a source of competitive advantage in small high tech firms
This thesis is concerned with the topic of the strategic management of technology as a source of competitive advantage in small high tech firms. The main objectives of this thesis were: to examine the corporate and technology strategy formulation processes within small high tech firms; to identify …
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Creating ladders out of chains : China's technological development in a world of global production
… hybrid firms that possess foreign finance and a strategic commitment to develop core technological activities in China, a strategic orientation commonly associated with domestic firms and not foreign ones. I call this developmental path the global hybrid model. Using two case studies from China's …
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The impact on organizational performance of contextual factors, strategy and management control systems
… systems (MCS) by testing the alignment of strategic and contextual variables with variables of contemporary systems of control in the organization. The study further explored the performance consequences of the implementation of these control systems, and the manner in which strategy can …
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