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- Deregulation Process, Governance Structures and Efficiency: The U.S. Electric Utility Sector
- This paper is an empirical assessment of the comparative efficiency of governance structures in an environment marked by high uncertainty. This paper analyzes the short-term impact of retail deregulation on the productive efficiency of electric utilities in the United States. It also argues that there are transitory costs linked to...
- White papers 2003-03-01
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- Linking Project Management With Business Strategy
- Recognition of the strategic importance of Project Management PM in the corporate world is rapidly accelerating. One reason for this acceleration may be strong belief by business leaders that aligning project management with business strategy can significantly enhance the achievement of organizational goals, strategies, and performance. This paper addresses three...
- White papers 2006-12-13
- Strategy Formulation in Small Business: A Conceptual Framework
- There are many sophisticated concepts of strategy formulation offered in the strategy literature. However, the large majority hold little promise for small firms. The research reported in this paper is devoted to exploring the concept of strategy in small business. In particular, this research intends to, first suggest a model...
- White papers 2004-05-14
- Design Focus: A Strategic Alternative For Managing Product Design
- Firms faced with a portfolio of inconsistent design tasks often fail to get the best out of their investment in product design efforts. We present the concept of design focus as a strategic alternative for gaining competitive advantage through product design. The concept is based on the premise that design...
- White papers 2003-06-01
- Implementing Inter-Organizational Systems (IOS) For Strategic Advantage: A Value-Flow Framework
- Increasingly, organizations have been investing heavily in information systems for greater dyadic coordination and cooperation with each of their key business partners. In this regard, IS Information Systems research has not kept pace with important theoretical developments in business strategy literature, with little cumulative work being done on the development...
- White papers 2003-06-11
- Business Strategy, Human Resources, Labour Market Flexibility, And Competitive Advantage
- This paper contributes to the strategic human resource management literature by testing the three main approaches - the universalistic, contingency and configurational - against an original database. Specifically, it examines the relationship between HR and organizational performance, the links between strategy, HR and the use of flexible employment contracts, and...
- White papers 2003-08-26
- Strategy and business economics
- Strategy and Business Economics WHAT IS STRATEGY? Many different theories and approaches to strategy formulation and implementation are presented in the literature. Some writers distinguish between strategy as a concept and strategy as a process. Others emphasize that strategy is a way of thinking. However defined, strategy is concerned...
- Research articles 1989-04-01
- Darden's Lenox: Green Leaders View Environmentalism as Strategic Opportunity, Not Compliance Headache
- Professor Michael Lenox is the Executive Director of the Batten Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business. Professor Lenox concentrates on two main areas: technology strategy and the interface of business strategy and public policy. In our fourth installment...
- Blog posts 2009-08-04
- Fresh Look at Strategy Under Uncertainty
- Although even the highest levels of uncertainty don't prevent businesses from analyzing predicaments rationally, says author Hugh Courtney, the financial crisis has shown us the limits of our tools—and minds. Hugh Courtney's book, 20/20 Foresight: Crafting Strategy in an Uncertain World, was published the...
- Articles 2009-02-27
- A Framework for Strategic Balancing of Knowledge Management Initiatives
- Enterprises need to understand the impact of different types of Knowledge Management KM approaches on business strategy, and how they interact with other types of initiatives to produce synergistic effects. The hypothesis of this paper is that a model based on the Balanced ScoreCard approach BSC can be used to...
- White papers 2002-12-09
- Booksellers Take On Walmart, Target, Amazon Over Discounts -- But It's Just Business as Usual
- Price wars can have their consequences. But a letter written by the American Booksellers Association to the U.S. Justice Department asking for an investigation after Amazon, Walmart and most lately Target slashed prices on books isn't likely to forestall aggressive cost cutting on bestsellers or literary lights....
- Blog posts 2009-10-26
- Key Decisions In Strategic New Product Development For Small Software Product Businesses
- Small companies in the software product business risk rework and market failure due to shortcomings in integrating a strategic perspective into management of product development. Because little guidance exists for helping such companies link business strategy with product development, author propose that improvement should begin with helping the key persons...
- White papers 2003-08-20
- Strategy as stretch and leverage
- "Strategy motivates the employees.Based on the notion that long-term competitive success depends on managers' willingness to continually challenge their frames of reference - their own and their firm's established wisdom, acquired from business schools, peers, consultants, the business press and their own career experiences - the concept of stretch is...
- White papers 1996-08-01
- What In The World Is Competitive Advantage?
- In recent years the concept of competitive advantage has taken center stage in discussions of business strategy. Statements about competitive advantage abound, but a precise definition is elusive. In reviewing the use of the term competitive advantage in the strategy literature, the common theme is value creation. However, there is...
- White papers 2003-08-05
- The Pursuit of Good Business
- Article talks about a statement that " Business is good", but what exactly it means. Some possible meanings are: it is making good money, it uses good business practices/principles that work, it has a positive core ideology-good values, it has good opportunities for future growth etc. This paper focuses...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- The Business Model: A Means to Understand the Business Context of Information and Communication Technology
- The business model concept is becoming increasingly popular, within traditional strategy theory, Information and Communication Technology ICT research, and in the emergent body of literature on e-business. However, the concept is often used relatively independently from theory, meaning model components and interrelations are relatively obscure. This paper proposes an outline...
- White papers 2001-09-01
- Paths To Success: Three Ways To Innovate Your Business Model
- In the ever-changing times, innovation in business models is a success differentiator for CEOs. But what is business model innovation and what can be learned from successful business model innovators? Based on their experience, an extensive literature review and an analysis of 35 best practice cases, IBM first developed a...
- White papers 2007-06-01
- Outsourcing A Business Intelligence Function
- Outsourcing has become a growing trend in the 21st century. It has become the strategy of companies to concentrate more and more on their core competencies and key businesses. One definition of outsourcing is that it is a contractual relationship between an external vendor and an enterprise in which the...
- White papers 2006-02-08
- PinkMonkey.com Inc. Announces Record Date for Distribution of Houston Interweb Design Inc. Common Stock and Completion of a Financing
- LIBERTY, Texas--BUSINESS WIRE--Jan. 20 1999--PinkMonkey.com Inc. (OTC BB:PMKY) ("PinkMonkey.com") is an on-line publishing company, whose business strategy is to provide educational services, including study aids via the Internet. PinkMonkey.com operates a commercial website offering a line of classical literature notes that are available 24 hours a day at www.pinkmonkey.com. ...
- Research articles 1999-01-20
- Entrepreneurs use a balanced scorecard to translate strategy into performance measures.(Hyde Park Electronics)(Futura Industries)(Southern Gardens Citrus)
- Although 50 percent of Fortune 1000 companies currently use a balanced scorecard BSC, few small businesses are using a BSC. A review of the literature finds no BSC papers in leading small business/entrepreneurship journals. This article begins with a discussion of the BSC and why a...
- Research articles 2006-07-01
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