Informed by the resource-based view of the firm and the strategic network theory, this thesis describes seven cases studies from the information technology and telecommunications industries. Proposed hypotheses cover three research questions on the dynamic aspects of the mentioned theoretical...

pt. 1.A Strategy for Analyzing Your Suppliers --Ch. 1.Why Analyze Your Suppliers? --Ch. 2.Choosing Which Suppliers to Analyze --pt. 2.Components of a Corporate Analysis of Suppliers --Ch. 3.Creating a Corporate Analysis --Ch. 4.Investigating What is Behind Financial Figures --Ch. 5.Analyzing...

Introduction; Step 1 Analyzing the Situation; Step 2 Analyzing the Organization; Step 3 Analyzing the Publics; Step 4 Establishing Goals and Objectives; Step 5 Formulating Action and Response Strategies; Step 6 Using Effective Communication; Step 7 Choosing Communication Tactics; Step 8...

Corporate social responsibility : bottom-line issue or public relations exercise? / Lord Tim Clement-Jones -- Corporate citizenship as part of the business model / Geoffrey Bush -- Legislation, litigation, activism and threats / Stuart Thomson -- Measuring corporate social responsibility / Will...

The challenge of new businesses -- Beating the odds -- The difficulties of building new legs -- When low growth is better than gambling -- The new business traffic lights -- Diversification -- Searching for new businesses -- Is there a role for corporate venturing? -- Positioning and supporting...

The study at hand examines the strategic perspective of the emerging phenomenon of performance-oriented systems, e.g. car-sharing or cloud computing, in the mobility, IT, energy and chemical industries. In all four industries, firms have likewise implemented a novel system-based offering...