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This article looks at the Enron affair in terms of what investors and experts fail to take into account to being able to predict Enron collapse. The authors show how analysts could have predicted Enron's difficulties in view of the incoherence observed in its strategic decisions, from the...
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communication technologies has made competences less dependent upon individuals. Knowledge has been increasingly embodied in firms …
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This paper is interested in the consequences of the marketing function evolution on marketer’s profile. In studying representations associated to marketers in a French context, expectations for marketing and personal characteristics of marketers are discussed. Interviews and a content analysis...
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The article shows a surprising way of how management consultant's daily practices play a role in managers' decisions. Beyond the traditionally recognized roles of consultants (high level staff, energy catalyst), we pinpoint the importance of information transmission and the ambiguity of this...
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The purpose of this research is to investigate whether the alignment of IT with the strategy (particularly the … partnership strategy or cooperation practice) and organizational structure of an SME could have a decisive influence on its … multivariate perspective, modelled with structural equations, was used to test the alignment between strategy, structure and IT …
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This article shows how management consultant’s daily transgression practices favour semi-confidential information diffusion, which has the effect of improving managers’ strategic decision making. By their marginal transgressions (namely confidentiality rule breaking), consultants act as...
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and use of information has not always been considered as a relevant question for strategy making. Indeed, in classical … circulation as social practices, an approach which mirrors that of Strategy-as-Practice. This focus on social practices gives way …
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In this paper we analyse the role of management accounting for strategy in a growing competitive environment. This … competition may lead to such a change in the competition level that firms are called to alter their strategy. Actually the … competitive environment is one of the five forces Porter defined as determinant for strategy. In these conditions, we study both …
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Steering systems must ensure the deployment of the strategy throughout the organization whose perimeters can vary …
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