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AbstractThis paper proposes that organizational decision‐makers exist in a market for strategic issues where different internal and external trends and developments compete for decision‐makers' attention. The paper describes how an organization's strategic planning process affects the set of strategic issues that do capture decision‐makers' attention. It explains how characteristics of the strategic issue array translate into effective and timely initiation and implementation of strategic c

ISSN:0143-2095    

DOI:10.1002/smj.4250080202

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThe basic hypothesis in this paper is that a gap tends to develop over an industry's evolution between potential innovators in a company and the organizational mainstream. The innovative gap is a function of the type of innovation needed for longer‐run survival and the disposition of the mainstream organization towards innovation. This hypothesis is used to predict which of four popular organizations for innovation is most suited to each stage of an idealized industry's evolution. The predicted organization set is discussed in terms of well‐known cases, and tested in an exploratory manner using executive survey d

ISSN:0143-2095    

DOI:10.1002/smj.4250080203

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractAn empirical study involving 97 manufacturing firms that averaged $20 million in annual sales yielded a strong positive correlation between the degree of planning formality and firm performance. Additionally, interactive analysis disclosed that this relationship pervaded various grand strategies; the implication being that formalized strategic planning was consistently a positive factor associated with high levels of organizational performance.

ISSN:0143-2095    

DOI:10.1002/smj.4250080204

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractField research was conducted in 34 Canadian companies/business units to determine the validity of a generic typology of strategies and the content of each type. Two questionnaires, secondary data, and interviews were used to identify strategic types and explore their strategic characteristics. A typology of generic strategies was proposed and tested, and comprehensive descriptions of their characteristics were developed. The findings provide support for a methodology for measuring and identifying strategy, a basis for research on contingency theories of strategic management, and a practical tool for managers to identify and communicate strategic choices and the implementation issues involved.

ISSN:0143-2095    

DOI:10.1002/smj.4250080205

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThis study evaluated the impact of market share on three measures of business‐level risk: ROI variation, share instability and the difference between growth in price and growth in cost. The analysis also included conduct variables which might bear upon these relationships. The sample was drawn from the PIMS data base and consisted of mature industrial businesses separated into three types of market environments. Path analysis was employed and yielded partial support for the risk‐reduction benefits of market sh

ISSN:0143-2095    

DOI:10.1002/smj.4250080206

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThis paper develops several propositions that link compensation strategy and the effectiveness of the compensation system. The underlying argument is that effectiveness at realizing intended pay strategies depends significantly on the existence of a match between compensation strategies, organization and environment. These propositions are tested in a sample of 33 high tech and 72 non‐high tech firms or business units in the Boston Route 128 area. Respondents are managers responsible for compensation policies in these firms or business units. The relationships among compensation strategies, organization characteristics and environment are explored. The findings may help researchers conceptualize, and practitioners manage, the relationship between reward processes and strategy in organization

ISSN:0143-2095    

DOI:10.1002/smj.4250080207

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractA sample of tenured business policy scholars, with significant track records in publishing, rated key management journals with respect to their appropriateness as outlets for scholarly research in the business policy field. The results of the survey are reported.

ISSN:0143-2095    

DOI:10.1002/smj.4250080208

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractCompetitive strategy under uncertainty involves a trade‐off between acting early and acting later after the uncertainty is resolved, and another trade‐off between focusing resources on one scenario and spreading resources on several scenarios, thus maintaining flexibility. This paper analyzes both these trade‐offs taking into consideration the nature of uncertainty, industry economics, intensity of competition, and the position of a firm relative to its compet

ISSN:0143-2095    

DOI:10.1002/smj.4250080209

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThe paper describes a test of the Galbraith and Nathanson (1978) model of stages of development. In particular, Galbraith and Nathanson hypothesized that in highly diverse firms: (1) performance criteria are more objective, (2) bonus is a larger proportion of total compensation, and (3) bonus allocation decisions are based more on an objective ‘formula’ of performance evaluation than on the discretion of the firm President or Chief Executive Officer. The study compared the three variables across three diversification groups (high, medium, low), based on Rumelt's (1974) classification (single product, vertically integrated, dominant, related, unrelated, and conglomerate). The study used written surveys of corporate managers in Fortune 1000 manufacturing fi

ISSN:0143-2095    

DOI:10.1002/smj.4250080210

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThis paper examines the role of future orientation of organizational members in the strategic planning enterprise. It explores, conceptually and empirically, the relationship between the future time perspectives of individuals and their preferences for short and long planning horizons. Research with 207 corporate executives confirms the relevance of this individual future orientation. Implications of the temporal perspective for research and managerial practice are discussed.

ISSN:0143-2095    

DOI:10.1002/smj.4250080211

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY