... firms in the sample. Most SMEs in this study have an explicitly formulated business strategy. The results show that it is possible to implement the BSC in SMEs without a formalized strategy. Such findings seem to suggest that the use of the BSC may stimulate the formulation of strategies for those firms...

... to change policy and initiate changes in strategy concerning the external environment (Bourgeois and Singh, 1983). Resource slack is composed of three interrelated but conceptually distinct dimensions, which are: (1) available slack, (2) potential slack and (3) recoverable slack (Bourgeois, 1981...

... on strategic outcomes –instead of firm performance – this study expands strategy literature supporting the influence of compensation schema on a firm’s outcomes. This path is new because it offers a moderating perspective to understand the strategic deviations and changes that chief executive officers imprint...

.... The authors suggest that diversification strategies differ in their impact on postacquisition performance when moderated by the institutional inefficiencies of economies. Design/methodology/approach This research is based on a quantitative approach. The authors statistically test the hypotheses based...

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... communities. Below, a brief literature review on the network perspective is presented, followed by the explanation about the framework adopted for the strategic analyses of the SC-companies. This section ends by briefly addressing SC management issues. Strategy is a field of knowledge devoted...

..., Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East, have been excluded from the environment construct research: This is partly because of their recent economic and political underperformance or isolation and partly because of strategy research's distaste for replication. As a result, the strategy...

... of the relationship among the environmental selection factors and the different types of enterprise strategies. Second, the proposed conceptual framework may be very beneficial for studies of interorganizational learning. Third, the model has the advantage of responding to the criticism of strategy theories in terms...

... introduced by firms. Finally, we examined how the innovation patterns are generalized by the type of service firms, confirming that there is a relationship between production and innovation strategies. This paper yields empirical evidence from Spanish services, showing that service firms develop innovations...

... the strategic responses of Argentine business groups and, through an inductive theory building process, propose refinements to this theory. We argue that such a strategy process is moderated not only by differences in market forces set out by policy reforms across different economic segments but also...

... imposed by the strategic context. Specifically, risk‐encouraging compensation systems are better for prospector firms – high level of managerial discretion – whereas risk‐discouraging compensation systems are better for defender firms – low level of managerial discretion. Compensation Strategy...

... commitments that destroy value, even in the presence of options with individual positive values. An important feature of the model is that competitive advantages may flow from market power or from the capability of managing the portfolio. Strategy Investment Portfolio management Cournot game Real...

.... We have been able to identify the internal processes and behavior that fit into each strategic pattern, which go deeper into the process of putting each strategy into practice (first objective: first set of hypotheses). Furthermore, the analysis of the internal processes and behavior that bring about...

... the Spanish hospitality sector. The results confirm the relevance of both models, and the importance of the different strategies as a source to explain performance. The analysis uses structural equation models and variance analysis (ANOVA) methodologies. COMPETITIVE STRATEGIES AND FIRM PERFORMANCE A Study...