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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"strategic posture"”.
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Environmental munificence, strategic posture and performance: an empirical survey of independent restaurants
… munificence may have on the relationship between strategic posture and performance at the level of the business unit. Following the suggestions of Venkatraman (1989) and others (cf. Van de Ven and Drazin, 1985) due consideration was given to developing a precise theoretical position and adopting …
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The relationship between geographic proximity and strategic posture: a longitudinal study of the U.S. fiberoptics industry
… costs economics, economic geography, and strategic management. Specifically, tests are conducted to determine whether there is an association between establishments' geographic locations and the incidence of two collective strategies: strategic isomorphism and strategic complementarity. …
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Marketing, strategy, and the small firm: A systematic inquiry
… the linkage between business orientation, strategic posture, marketing strategy, and performance. The theoretical model employed explicitly incorporated a contingency approach to theory development, and as such contained contingency variables, response variables, and performance variables.
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An empirical examination of mature service environments and high performance strategies within those environments: the case of the lodging and restaurant industries
This study contributes to the hospitality and strategic management literature through the development of a mid-range approach to the study of environment and strategy. Through the use of cluster analysis and multiple discriminant analysis, four commonly recurring environmental settings were …
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An exploration of the relationship between community college entrepreneurial orientation, enrollment management orientation, and performance
… To meet these challenges, college leaders take a strategic posture rooted in an entrepreneurial behavior. However, the relationship between entrepreneurialism and overall performance in a community college setting remained a gap in the existing body of literature. The purpose of this survey …
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Creating shareholder value through total customer solutions
… value. Against the backdrop of the latest strategic thinking of Arnoldo C. Hax and Dean Wilde Il as discussed in the Deha Model, the author reviews the strategic position of each company and compares them to the shareholder value they create. This thesis concludes that adopting the Total …
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Social disclosure by Australian listed mineral mining companies: A stakeholder approach
… The presence of a social responsibility group (Strategic Posture dimension) was also significantly related to the extent of total disclosure and four categories of social disclosure (environment, product and services, human resources, and community involvement). Company age (a Control Variable) …
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Market orientation, competitive strategy type and performance in independent retail businesses : a contingency analysis in a market town context
… sector and associating differences in strategic posture with performance. The results of contingency analysis in the model framework identify interactions between the variables, which suggest that market orientation contributes to strategy selection and implementation, and consequent …
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SME strategic regeneration: building a holistic framework for decision-making in managing growth uncertainties and market volatilities for SMEs in Malaysia
… an empirical approach with vantage points of Strategic Management, Strategic Innovations and Strategic Foresight perspectives to foster holistic decision-making for SME firms’ Strategic Regeneration impetuses at the onset of external environmental turbulence and discontinuous change. The …