...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). Strategic management Corporate social responsibility Business strategy Integration factors Means of integration...

...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...

... responsibility Dynamic learning process Participatory dialogue Appreciative Inquiry Strategic management ISO 26000 Norway Recently the issues of social responsibility and sustainability 1 have been re‐explored in a new manner. One can no longer only look at the issue as a sideline to real business...

... in showing how business efforts of embedding sustainability into business practice can be more effective by combining cultural factors, collaboration and innovation. Sustainability Strategic management Organizational change Renewable energy Leadership In the spring of 2010 José Manuel...

... and strategy formulation are thus strongly linked to organizational context and relevant time‐frames (Fraguiero and Thomas, 2011). Howard Thomas can be contacted at: howardthomas@smu.edu.sg © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Business schools Leadership Strategic management...

... 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...

... which shuns the simplicity of the equilibrium assumption and embraces the epistemology of complex self‐adapting systems theory. Steven French can be contacted at: steven.french@scu.edu.au © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Hussey (1994 , p. 3) suggests that “strategic management suffers...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Strategic management Critical management Epistemology Self‐adjusting control systems Few writers have attempted the task of organising the ideas of business strategy into a coherent model. The background of the scholars who have attempted this task...

...). Strategic management Critical management Epistemology Self‐adjusting control systems Leibnitz (1646‐1716) argued that all truths must belong to two logical types, truths of reasoning or truths of fact. Sometimes even scientists and mathematicians forget the difference between the two types...

.... 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...

...Howard Thomas © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 --> Business schools 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...

... Strategic management Governance Volatility Theodora C. Welch is an Assistant Professor of Management at University of Massachusetts, Boston. She received her PhD in strategy and MBA in finance from the John Molson School of Business in Montreal, Canada. Her research examines the joint influence...

.... For example: 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...

... style in studying the effects of the managers and top management team on firms' strategy. Tiina Gallén can be contacted at: tiina.gallen@oamk.fi © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Decision making Cognition Managers Strategic management Management styles When executives...

...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...