... commercial and non-commercial purposes), subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this licence may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode Digitalization Business model innovation Sustainability Stakeholder engagement Corporate...

... new direction in cross‐border M&A research for reinterpreting advisors’ role in facing them. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Cross‐border M&A Corporate strategy Advisors’ role Acquisitions and mergers Changes of global scenario are radically altering...

... investment, real estate and financing expertise, But, asset management takes time to accumulate assets and fees so it still contributes only a small part to the company's income. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Islam International investments International business Corporate strategy...

.... Corporate strategy Business development International marketing Corporate growth International diversification Environmental scanning Business model The finding that the growth process of firms does not correspond to a general linear process but shows strong idiosyncratic non‐linearity over...

... Corporate strategy Mission Purpose Values Vision statement There are a number of researchers and practitioners who do not subscribe to this compilation logic. They offer instead a more focussed definition of the concept of mission, even though they may use different labels. Hamel and Prahalad...

... for selecting scenarios. Customer services quality Gap analysis Monte Carlo simulation Life insurance Scenario planning Corporate strategy Merely developing a model of the strategy does not ensure that a strategy will be successful. Strategies can fail when the model is based on flawed...

... in differentiating and classifying forms of collaboration. The key determinants of structure and purpose reflect more accurately the commercial and practical realities of modern business, and offer practitioners and researchers a logical means of mapping and analyzing collaboration strategy. Corporate strategy...

... to competition Performance Market growth Corporate strategy Buyer‐seller relationships Sweden Industrial marketing Firm strategy comprises major initiatives to enhance competitiveness in the firm's market (Nag et al., 2007). Therefore, strategy's impact on performance is an ultimate issue...

... extent, firms' post‐recession performance will be dictated by their initial conditions at the onset of the recession. Business cycles Recession Performance management Corporate strategy A compelling and strong argument exists maintaining that economic recessions represent the most...

... trade Strategic groups Corporate strategy The strategic group construct has contributed much to what is currently known about the business strategy‐performance nexus (Capps et al., 2002 ; Leask and Parker, 2007 ; Mauri and Michaels, 1998 ; Panagiotou, 2007 ; Parnell, 2008 ; Phelan...

...., 2004 for a review), studies focusing on the effects of corporate political strategy on market‐oriented strategies are scarce. In this paper we contribute to this under‐researched area by examining the impact of corporate political strategy on innovation strategies. Corporate strategy...

... Diversification Corporate strategy Performance management Subsidiaries Multinational companies It is logical to expect that perceived product and market relatedness between a foreign subsidiary and the core business unit of the parent firm has a positive impact on performance of the foreign subsidiary...

... databases Time series analysis Communication technologies Corporate strategy Theorists have long postulated that efforts by management to align their organizations with pertinent environmental characteristics (e.g. dynamism, turbulence) give rise to specific organizational orientations...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Resource management Corporate strategy Competitive strategy Performance management One of the critical tasks in strategic analysis is for managers to understand the relationship between the resources they control and the performance of the firm...

.... collaborating and forming alliances) (Helfat and Peteraf, 2003 ; Eisenhardt and Martin, 2000). Robin Holt can be contacted at: r.holt@liverpool.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Corporate strategy Company performance Capital Oil industry If effective strategy involves...

... to outperform. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Corporate governance Business performance Corporate strategy Family firms Corporate governance and type of ownership can affect strategy. Businesses in which ownership is personal or concentrated are said to be quite different from...

... at: Howard.Thomas@wbs.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Competitive strategy Management theory Corporate strategy The resource‐based theory (RBV) literature (Barney, 1991 ; Grant, 1991 ; Penrose, 1959 ; Wernerfelt, 1984) explains firm performance in terms of firm level resource...