Search results for "Strategic management"

An Approach to Measuring Perceived Quality of Life in the City Through a Formative Multidimensional Perspective

2016

Cities compete to attract multinational companies, more tourism flows and to improve the quality of life of citizens. From a public service orientation, perceived quality of life should become a strategic input. In the last decades, scientists offered several alternative approaches to defining and measuring quality of life: social indicators, subjective measures and economic indices all with their strengths and weaknesses. This chapter conceptualizes and operationalizes perceived quality of life in the city from the perspective of its residents, proposing and validating a new measure with six dimensions through a formative index. The conceptual model and the hypotheses are tested using Part…

Explanations of success and failure in management learning : What can we learn from Nokia's rise and fall

2016

International audience; In this paper, we study the changing explanations of success and failure over the course of a firm's history. We build on a discursive approach that highlights the role of narrative attributions in making sense of corporate performance. Specifically, we analyze how the Nokia Corporation was framed first as a success and later as a failure and how these dimensions of performance were explained in various actors' narrative accounts. In both the success and failure accounts, our analysis revealed a striking black-and-white picture that resulted in the institutionalization of Nokia's metanarratives of success and failure. Our findings also reveal a number of discursive a…

Deadlock in corporate governance: Finding a common strategy for private telephone companies, 1978–1998

2017

This paper looks at how a group of small, incumbent private telephone companies complied with the international convergence of market structures. The existing research has mainly focused on large national incumbents, assuming a transition to multinational enterprise. This development process is often associated with privatisation policies and various institutional factors. The article tests these assumptions using a case study of the network of Finnish local telephone companies. It looks at the development of an interfirm network, its perspectives on the different phases of the deregulation process, and how the network tried to regenerate itself but failed to form a unified corporate struct…

Value of the Balanced Scorecard for organizational communication in knowledge-intensive firms

2014

The Concept of Key Success Factors in Logistics and Supply Chain Management in the Context of Creating Business Competitive Advantage

2018

Firms are constantly looking for ways to create a competitive advantage. An important place among the factors affecting the way in which this advantage is gained is taken by success factors including, but not limited to, the so-called key success factors that may be related to the domains of logistics and supply chain management. The aim of the article is to identify the basic characteristics of the concept of key success factors in logistics and supply chain management. The article presents the essence and importance of success factors in the context of creating the business competitive advantage, the basic concepts of key success factors related to resource-based and market-based strategi…

Strategic choices of Finnish universities in the light of general strategy frameworks

2016

This study examines university strategies from the content perspective. Since the early 1980s, the pressure to adopt strategic management in universities and other higher education institutions has increased because of issues including reduced public funding, pressures and possibilities for internationalization, developments in teaching technologies, and demands for increased accountability to stakeholders. The study employs content analysis and multivariate statistical techniques to examine the written strategies of 13 Finnish universities formulated after the University Act 2010 that aimed at enhancing their competitiveness in the global arena. The studied organizations cover practically …

Ideology in Vicarious Learning-Related Communication

2021

Organizations often learn vicariously by observing what other organizations do. Our study examines vicarious learning–related communication through which individuals share their observations with other organizational members. Most students and members of present-day organizations would expect that this communication is driven by a prodevelopment logic—that communication serves the purpose of organizational improvement and competitiveness. Our unique historical evidence on learning-related communication over multiple decades shows that the subjective and collective attitude toward prodevelopment communication may be ideologically conditioned. Prodevelopment communication is the norm in capit…

Zarządzanie strategiczne akademickim kształceniem ekonomistów w kontekście oczekiwań studentów i wymagań zmieniającego się rynku pracy

2020

Kultura i edukacja ekonomiczna były tematem jednej z sesji panelowych X Kongresu Ekonomistów Polskich, który odbył się w listopadzie 2019 r. W nowej klasyfikacji dziedzin i dyscyplin naukowych wprowadzonej w Polsce w 2018 r. nie uwzględniono kategorii nauki ekonomiczne. Rodzi to pytanie o identyfikację kierunków i profili kształcenia ekonomicznego na poziomie wyższym, wpływając zarazem na kształtowanie oferty edukacyjnej uczelni. Kierunki ekonomiczne nadal cieszą się dużą popularnością, ale coraz częściej poddawany jest krytyce zakres i sposób kształcenia ekonomistów. Studenci domagają się wprowadzenia pluralizmu w naukach ekonomicznych i zmniejszenia stopnia ich matematyzacji, „odświeżenia…

Koncepcja logistyki w zasobowym nurcie zarządzania strategicznego

2017

Rola logistyki w zarządzaniu stale rośnie. Podstawą kształtowania i rozwoju koncepcji logistyki jest orientacja na przepływy. Koncepcja ta coraz częściej jest postrzegana jako systemowa determinanta sukcesu i przewagi konkurencyjnej przedsiębiorstwa, zajmująca istotne miejsce we współczesnym zarządzaniu strategicznym. W rozwoju koncepcji logistyki można wskazać pięć faz, umownie nazywanych kolejnymi koncepcjami logistyki: (1) logistyka jako funkcja operacyjnego zarządzania zadaniami i czynnościami logistycznymi, (2) logistyka jako funkcja strategicznego zarządzania procesami i potencjałami logistycznymi, (3) logistyka jako koncepcja przepływowo zorientowanego zarządzania przedsiębiorstwem, …

Donación y deliberación: El lugar de la caridad en la ética empresarial

2010

El artículo analiza algunas aportaciones de la encíclica Caritas in veritate (CiV) a la ética social contemporánea. Una aportación de gran valor hermenéutico porque integra tres categorías centrales en la ética contemporánea: globalización, deliberación y donación. Dedica especial atención al concepto de caridad en la primera y tercera parte del trabajo, primero analizando la presencia de este concepto en la ética social reciente en términos de des-privatización, después muestra la emergencia de la caridad en la ética empresarial. Entre las aportaciones que realiza la encíclica a la ética empresarial nos hemos detenido en las que afectan a las formas de gestión organizativa y que hemos llam…