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The strategy formation process in the EFQM Excellence Model: a critical review and new perspectives

Francisco Balbastre-benaventMaría Teresa Canet-giner

subject

Strategic planningProcess managementConceptual frameworkComputer scienceProcess (engineering)EFQM Excellence ModelBusiness excellenceOperations managementSet (psychology)General Business Management and AccountingCompetitive advantage

description

The adoption of an integrative strategy formation process becomes a way of developing a strategic capability that contributes to generating positive results and sustainable competitive advantages. In today's environments, many companies are also using the EFQM Excellence Model (EEM) to try to develop such a strategic capability. This paper presents an exhaustive review of the literature on the strategic process debate and on the strategic capability of the EEM. As a result, we offer to practitioners a conceptual framework which shows the EEM as a useful driver to facilitate the development of an integrative strategy formation process, and we propose a set of dimensions and variables (the levers) through which such a development may take place. In addition, we present to academicians a detailed research agenda by establishing some exploratory questions, theoretical implications and new challenges to go into the knowledge of this area in greater depth.

https://doi.org/10.1080/14783363.2011.585773