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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Strategy as practice"”.
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A strategizing-as-practice perspective of the 'advice process' of small business owners.
… seeking by small business owners and employs a Strategy-as-Practice perspective. The analysis of the data from 33 small business owners identified eleven factors that influenced the processes. These included: cost; proximity; technical skills and knowledge; business ties; similarity of goals; …
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Sensemaking, meaning-making and practice perspectives in strategic planning for a veteran service nonprofit organization
… and navigate tensions in the construction of strategy and the function of the strategic text in inspiring commitment and motivating change. Using a constructivist grounded theory approach, this research builds on the principles and concepts of sensemaking and meaning-making in a community of …
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The deployment of dynamic managerial capabilities in practice
… create, modify or extend the resource base" of an organisation. As such, dynamic capabilities are a means by which organisations might respond to or create market change. This thesis aims to make a contribution to understanding of how dynamic capabilities operate in practice. A …
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How does who we are affect what we do : an exploration of the organizational identity-strategy nexus in a UK based megachurch
… relationship between organisational identity and strategy within the context of a UK-based megachurch - Kingsway International Christian Centre (KICC). While religious organisations are often excluded from strategic management scholarship, this research contends that their unique institutional …
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An investigation into the treatment of uncertainty and risk in roadmapping: a framework and a practical process
… which is strategic in nature. It is seeing increasing application in practice and receiving growing attention in management literature. There has, however, been a noticeable lack of attention to uncertainty and risk in roadmapping theory and practice (and generally in strategic planning and at …
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Strategy Transition Processes and Practices in Public Sector Organisations
Strategy processes and internal actors’ practices are crucial for organisations given their dynamic environment. Strategy processes including formulation, implementation, and evaluation have been treated as mutually exclusive, making how strategy is actually transitioned between them a matter of …
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Orchestrated stakeholder dialogue: its place in dynamic capability theory and its practical value for business
… In addition, most empirical research to date has been based on quantitative research. Qualitative, granular treatment of the topic has been encouraged (see p.44). Accordingly, in this thesis, the data from the main study was collected from in-depth interviews with change consultants, and the …
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Towards a grounded theory of why and how coopetition emerges among SMEs: revisiting intentionality and unintentionality
Over the past three decades, there has been growing research interest in coopetition. Coopetition is an intricate network of interdependencies among firms, where intentional and unintentional cooperation and competition occur concurrently. This occurs towards the achievement of diverse yet mutually …
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STRATEGY MAKING IN PRACTICE: THE CASE OF CRETAN HOTEL MANAGERS
… investigates how managers contribute to the strategy of their firm, specifically focusing on an occupational group of hotel managers. Following the call of the Strategy-as-Practice (S-a-P) research community for heightened awareness of the managers' role and contribution to strategy, and …
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The value of talent management architectures to multinational companies
… of strategic actors (HR and talent leaders as system designers and business leaders as system implementers) in multinational companies (MNCs). Moreover, to contribute to the knowledge and understanding of how multinational organisations think about and define Talent Management (henceforth …