摘要:

AbstractThis paper is concerned with the assessment of effectiveness, despite the problems involved in its determination. The conventional approach to assessment is considered first. This is based upon a determination of the success of the planning in achieving its objectives. However, the problem here is that it does not consider the actual nature of the planning. A multidimensional approach is then considered, which attempts to overcome this problem, by measuring effectiveness within the planning system. The paper concludes that there are two types of effectiveness to be measured. However, although it recognizes the value of the conventional approach, the multidimensional approach is only seen to be useful in being an indicator to certain factors.

ISSN:0143-2095    

DOI:10.1002/smj.4250040102

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1983

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThe traditional framework for strategy formulation in the field of business policy is deliberately broad and generalized, so as to encompass an almost limitless number of potentially influential factors. There is also a need for a more focused view, a means for showing similarities and differences among firms and how these relate to strategy formulation—a framework, in other words, that allows companies to be diagnosed by key situational elements and uses these, in turn, to define the appropriate strategy alternatives. What is proposed is a framework based on three familiar key elements—organizational levels, management styles, and stages of growth—integrated with and related to four basic strategy alterna

ISSN:0143-2095    

DOI:10.1002/smj.4250040103

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1983

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThe standard economic analysis holds that resource allocation in the industrial sector is primarily a market process operating through the capital markets. The current political resurgence of free market economics has popularized this approach. Contrary to this approach the authors demonstrate that: (1) trends in the size, diversity and administrative complexity of firms; (2) structural features of the capital markets; and (3) the emergence of the state as a major source of capital in developed countries imply that internal organizational and political/ ideological considerations are also vital to understanding resource allocation in the economy.

ISSN:0143-2095    

DOI:10.1002/smj.4250040104

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1983

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractAn important element of manufacturing strategy is to decide on the shipping radius and the size of a geographically focused plant. This decision involves a trade‐off between exploiting economies of scale in production by building a large plant and decreasing transportation costs by building a small plant. The paper presents a model for analysing this trade‐off. It is shown that scale economies in transportation facilitate the exploitation of production economies of scale. For an optimal sized plant, the ratio of transportation to production costs does not depend on the absolute cost levels in production and transportation, but only the economies of scale present in production and in transportat

ISSN:0143-2095    

DOI:10.1002/smj.4250040105

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1983

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThis paper focuses and extends some emerging views on technological evolution and competition. First, that over the evolution of many product‐market segments there is a generalizable pattern, a shift from the investment characteristics of product technology to those of process technology as the primary focus of competition. Eventually, market price falls below production costs, not because firms face U‐shaped cost curves, but because of shifts in demand to the innovative form of the product. To this framework is added a hypothesis on the evolving risk structure of rival investments. The interaction of required and realized returns then provides a stopping rule for technologically‐driven competition which is different from the static case. Because technological change within a segment is non‐controllable but predictable the production functions and organization structures of participating firms must change in generalizable ways which can be used to predict industry structure. For the competing organization, these changes require particular kinds of decisions which are particularly suited to the level of the organization's strategic man

ISSN:0143-2095    

DOI:10.1002/smj.4250040106

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1983

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThis study describes a survey of experts chosen from Industry, Labour, and Government in Israel, who ranked and scored three business and four national goals in the context of industrial development. The business goals represented profitability, capital use and growth potential. The national goals involved human resource utilization, added value, foreign exchange conservation, and export of technologically advanced products.The findings support a hypothesis of consensus on goals and goal priorities between different sectors of the Israel economy, despite what might appear to be their divergent special interests. The findings also indicate overall consensus with respect to a balance between business and national goals. The study concludes that this consensus is the result of the need to respond to environmental threats and uncertainties which has created a sense of mutual interdependence among the sectors.

ISSN:0143-2095    

DOI:10.1002/smj.4250040107

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1983

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractA great deal of attention has focused on the potential benefits of the dialectic during strategic decision making. Some field studies have shown favourable perceptions of the dialectic. Exclusive use of field studies, however, is inadequate for a comprehensive evaluation of the dialectic. Controlled studies in the laboratory and the field are needed. Operationalizing the dialectic and measuring its effectiveness in controlled settings has been the subject of debate. This paper reviews three controlled approaches—lens model studies, creative task experiments, and case studies. The applicability of these approaches to dialectical research is discussed. Basic assumptions underlying controlled research are that the dialectic can be created in controlled settings and its effectiveness can be measured in terms of better decision

ISSN:0143-2095    

DOI:10.1002/smj.4250040108

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1983

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThis paper reports the results of a study directed toward determining: (1) the current pervasiveness of the requirement of a business policy course by AACSB‐accredited undergraduate programmes, (2) the general characteristics of the courses, (3) the organization of the courses, and (4) anticipated future changes in the courses. A questionnaire was mailed to all 208 AACSB‐accredited schools and returns were obtained from 203 of them. The paper presents the results derived from these responses and draws conclusions with regard to the study's objecti

ISSN:0143-2095    

DOI:10.1002/smj.4250040109

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1983

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0143-2095    

DOI:10.1002/smj.4250040110

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1983

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0143-2095    

DOI:10.1002/smj.4250040111

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1983

数据来源: WILEY