... are presented separately for companies with high business strategy (first quarter) and low business strategy (third quarter). The results show that at low levels of differentiation strategy, managerial entrenchment does not have a significant effect on SCME while other managerial attributes have a significant...

.... Afthonidis can be contacted at: vafthonidis@yahoo.gr © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Strategy Business excellence Economic crisis Business strategy Recession cycle Competitiveness The environment in which enterprises operate is characterized by two main elements: intense...

..., in these workshops many objectives surface which compete for priority and many processes are identified which must be improved. It is useful to depict this complexity in a 'what/how' matrix. This helps a team to reach agreement on priorities (Fig. 8). For example, at the level of business strategy, the elements...