... and authors. The full terms of this licence may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode Strategy Strategic management Decision-making Business analytics RBV According to the resource-based view (RBV), firm competitiveness derives from its ability to acquire...

.../methodology/approach The authors review the collaborative elaboration of Dresden’s smart city strategy as a critical case study. Dresden’s smart city strategy was developed using agile development and quadruple-helix innovation. The year-long co-creation process involved stakeholders from various groups...

...Hassan Al-Dhaafri; Mohammed Alosani Purpose Strategic planning and strategy implementation are proposed to impact overall performance. However, the purpose of this study is to empirically examine the mediating effect of organisational excellence on the relationship between strategic planning...

...Fabio Antoldi; Elisa Capelletti; Chiara Capelli Purpose This paper aims to discuss the importance of reconsidering the business model in the organizations, to ensure success over time. The paper lies on the analysis and development of the strategies of ten “Società” Canottieri’ – multi-sports...

...Maria Crema; Chiara Verbano; Karen Venturini Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the linkages between company’s strategy, open innovation and innovation performance, focusing on small and medium enterprises (SMEs). In more detail, the aim is to investigate the influence of firm...

...Danny Samson; David Challis Most companies have attempted a significant number of improvement initiatives such as total quality, re‐engineering, restructuring and teams, with very mixed success. In many cases these initiatives have been adopted without being part of an improvement strategy...

... the effectiveness of radical, incremental, and integrated innovation strategies on performance excellence. Hypotheses are tested in a cross‐sectional study of Australian and New Zealand manufacturing companies. Quantitative data was gathered from a large sample in a mail survey of manufacturing site managers...

... discourse. The findings indicate that largely bureaucratic approaches to TQM and strategy exist without proper integration of employee and customer feedback. TQM mainly impacted the strategy process at the objective setting level, forming a strategic‐operational divide, reflecting a tactical emphasis...

...Joseph A. De Feo; Alexander Janssen This is the third in a series of articles on strategic deployment and identifies the necessary steps to take in deploying the process. Describes ten such steps for corporate strategy to become an integral part of an organization’s culture: establishing a vision...

... process will link research and development, manufacturing, human resources, finance, marketing, quality and customer services with each other and the corporate vision, mission and key strategies. The full series will define strategic deployment, look at why it makes sense, identify the steps to take...