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In order to remain competitive, organizations have to make themselves accessible to a diversity of alternatives, which could be a direct influence on their flexibility; however, flexibility introduces a new context by which these organizations manage the systems they realize. In this paper, we...
- Leadership and Strategy: Making it Happen. O'Regan, Nicholas; Ghobadian, Abby // Journal of General Management;Spring2004, Vol. 29 Issue 3, p76
This article examines the relationship between factors deployed in crafting strategy, leadership and performance. The quality of leadership and strategy is widely viewed as instrumental in maintaining and improving competitive performance. Indeed, the literature suggests that the formulation...
- Leveraging Adversity for Strategic Advantage. Levenson, Alec R. // Organizational Dynamics;Autumn2002, Vol. 31 Issue 2, p165
In 2000-2001, companies were hit hard by a number of economic shocks, including industry-specific cycles, the stock market collapse, and national recession. To better understand how companies successfully cope with such adversity, we studied the responses to these recent shocks as well as...
- Public support to private innovation in multi-level governance systems: an empirical investigation. Fern�ndez-Ribas, Andrea // Science & Public Policy (SPP);Jul2009, Vol. 36 Issue 6, p457
This is an exploratory analysis of the distinct distributive nature of innovation programs by government levels. The research setting is a European region actively involved in regional, national, and supranational (EU)-level programs. The results suggest that sub-national programs lead to...
- LEADERSHIP IN CLUSTERS: ATTRIBUTES OF EFFECTIVE CLUSTER LEADER IN SLOVENIA. Zagorsek, Hugo; Svetina, Anja Cotic; Jaklic, Marko // Transformation in Business & Economics;Jun2008, Vol. 7 Issue 2, p98
Clusters have recently emerged as a crucial concept for developing and enhancing the competitive advantage of regions or industries. However, the success of the cluster development initiatives has often been lower than expected. Research suggests that lack of high-quality leadership is one of...
- Competitive Intelligence: Transformative Engineering of Organisational Strategy. Moloi, Relebohile; Iyamu, Tiko // Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Manag;2012, p205
Many organisations have opted to employ Competitive Intelligence (CI) products in order to address their challenges, and for competitive advantage. The products are supposed to be selected and deployed based on the organizational requirements, from both technical and business perspectives. Some...
- Intellectual Capital and a Firm's Innovativeness. Santos-Rodrigues, Helena; Dorrego, Pedro Figueroa; Jardon, Carlos Maria // Proceedings of the European Conference on Intellectual Capital;2011, p378
Intellectual capital is increasingly considered a source of competitive advantage and is considered a major issue on the management and organization research. There is a lack of evidence about which are the main components that are more relevant to achieve and maintain a competitive advantage,...
- A PROPOSED FRAME OF REFERENCE FOR COMPLEXITY MANAGEMENT AS OPPOSED TO THE ESTABLISHED LINEAR MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES. Pellissier, Ren� // International Journal of Organizational Innovation;Fall2012, Vol. 5 Issue 2, p6
Background: As our world becomes more global and competitive yet less predictable, competitive advantage and strategic management becomes more dependent upon non-linear models and designs based on complexity and complex adaptive systems. There is no ignoring the impact of world crises like the...
- NETWORKING - THE URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY? NOWICKA-SKOWRON, MARIA; ERIC, DEJAN; GRABARA, IVONNE; COSMESCU, IOAN // Annals of the University of Petrosani Economics;2011, Vol. 11 Issue 3, p205
The concept of innovations embraces everything that is connected with creation and application of new knowledge in order to win competitive advantage. A traditional approach applied by organizational and management sciences are not enough to explain and manage the development of enterprises as...
