Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review the extant literature on strategy implementation with a view to highlight the pitfalls and use these to build a new framework that could be more relevant to the conditions existing in the Indian context. Design/methodology/approach – This...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explain that corporate citizenship refers to the specific activities that an organisation engages in to meet social obligations, and which has become an issue of growing importance within the business community. A key area in academic literature...

Purpose – The basic purpose of this research is to study the influence selection factors have on the effectiveness of evolutionary change methods in civil engineering companies in Slovenia. Design/methodology/approach – A combination of qualitative and quantitative approaches to research...

Purpose – This paper sets out to continue exploration of the process‐performance linkage by positing several relationships between a multidimensional operationalization of the strategy development process and firm performance, specifically identifying a strategy process configuration that is...

Purpose – Despite the fact that most studies have been pointing to high failure rates, collaboration remains increasingly popular as an organisational form of economic activity, particularly in technology‐intensive industries. This paper aims to present a cross‐industry qualitative study...

Purpose – The aim is to present, explain and illustrate an improved method for decomposing an event‐based change in market value into its cash flow and risk elements. Design/methodology/approach – The approach is two‐fold. There is an algebraic comparison of the existing and improved...

Purpose – The purpose of this conceptual paper is to address the lack of consistent means through which business strategies are identified and discussed across theoretical perspectives in the field of business strategy. Design/methodology/approach – A stakeholder‐based approach is used to...

Purpose – This paper aims to call attention to the relative neglect in strategic decision‐making research to include a sense dimension, proposing a broadened conceptualization of strategic decision making that accounts for the processes through which managers generate sense when exposed to...

Purpose – This paper aims to propose a method for the longitudinal analysis of the environment considering both firms' and environmental variables. Design/methodology/approach – The study is based on a sample of firms in Canary Islands (Spain) for 2000 and 2003. Managerial perceptions are...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the importance of institutional innovation in managing the future. Peter Drucker has encouraged managers to develop institutional innovations in order to reach organizational objectives. These institutional innovations revolve round the...