...Saša Baškarada; Brian Hanlon Purpose Although corporate portfolio management (CPM) has been a popular tool for strategic management of multi-business portfolios in the private sector since the late 1960s, it has received limited attention in the public sector. Accordingly, empirical research...

... into strategic management. Originality/value The analysis allows to fill the literature gap related to the strategic integration of CSR (driving factors and means of integration). It is a middle-sized listed Italian multi-utilities company. It provides energy, water and environmental services...

...Farhad Analoui; Akram Samour Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of managers in the strategic management process, particularly its application in non‐governmental organizations (NGOs). Design/methodology/approach The study examines the relationship between managers...

... and interpretation of these 4D are: © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Small to medium‐sized enterprises Corporate social responsibility Dynamic learning process Participatory dialogue Appreciative Inquiry Strategic management ISO 26000 Norway Despite the increasing numbers of success...

... not considered at the moment key strategic markets for the company. In 2009, it became the third largest wind producer in the world and the second largest in Spain (see Table II). Sustainability Strategic management Organizational change Renewable energy Leadership In the spring of 2010...

... Strategic management Strategic change Globalization In the modern university the business school is currently valued much more for its managerial expertise, cash‐generation abilities and financial strength than its intellectual strength and scholarship (Bok, 2003 ; Starkey and Tempest, 2008...

... to develop and test a viable small business strategic process. Thus, strategic thinking is (critically) reframed and emergence explored beyond the (modernist and postmodernist) “box” of traditional strategic management. Practical implications Small business principals have access to an integrated system...

... the equilibrium assumption, if the strategy discipline is to be developed. Originality/value Very little work, especially in strategy has been done outside the Modernist paradigm. This paper explores the possibility of incorporating open system ideas into a strategic methodology. Strategic management...

... to understand the usage is to apply the terminology to a school of thought. Hussey (1994 , p. 3) suggests that “strategic management suffers from conceptual misunderstandings concealed under a semantic smokescreen”. This is because, as the subject develops over time, “new terms are coined to explain new...

.... Strategic management Critical management Self‐adjusting control systems Business process re‐engineering The ideas of several scholars who have considered addressing the issues of strategic management by developing models or “Schools” of thought have been extensively canvassed and justified...

...). Most of the work conducted in the field of strategy has been set in an epistemological paradigm that is essentially Modernist (Parker, 2002 , p. 123). But alternative epistemological paradigms exist, within which the ideas of strategic management can be developed, specifically Postmodernism...

... Competitive analysis Demographics Entrepreneurship Globalization Strategic management Article Type: Awards for excellence From: Journal of Management Development, Volume 27, Issue 10 ...

...Howard Thomas; Howard Thomas Purpose The paper seeks to identify the key environmental forces and competitive drivers influencing the strategic management of a business school, and to give guidance about strategic choices as the business school evolves in the new knowledge economy. Design...

.... Hal Lazarus can be contacted at: hallaz@bellsouth.net © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Innovation Stakeholder analysis Strategic management Corporate strategy I have known very few gurus in my long life, and of each of them I have attempted to ask meaningful questions. I...

... Strategic management Governance Volatility It is conventional wisdom that transparency, openness and full disclosure make for efficient financial markets and exemplary corporate governance. It is persuasively argued that there are few, if any, arguments against those advantages. One of the reasons...

... at: tiina.gallen@oamk.fi © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Decision making Cognition Managers Strategic management Management styles When executives create strategy, they project themselves and their organizations into the future, creating a path from where they are now to where...

...Mikko Luoma Purpose Companies are increasingly using management development (MD) initiatives as a means of enhancing their capability to realise their business goals. Therefore, the linkage between MD and strategic management should be better understood. Aims to examine this situation. Design...

...Paul Brown Purpose To validate conceptual frameworks for strategic management development. Also, to test the hypothesis that the objectives and design of a strategic management development programme need to match the organisation's level of commitment to strategic management and the degree...

... of individual employees and corporate mentoring can be used to both retain and stimulate junior managers who are keen to progress through the organisation's hierarchy. This paper makes reference to a human resource management development and strategic management framework that can be used to develop a pro...

...” to: progress along the “diversity continuum” starting with acknowledging to valuing, and ultimately to managing diversity; and systemically managing diversity using a eight‐step “managing diversity process”. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Diversity management Strategic management Change management...