Purpose – The competitive pressures of the past several years and the ongoing financial meltdown has driven most tanker owners and operators to rethink their business strategy. In addition, new green technologies are providing opportunities to reduce the environmental impact of the shipping...

Purpose This paper aims to explore the landscape of sustainability goals set by large firms. Design/methodology/approach Sustainability reports were content analyzed using the triple bottom line framework. Findings This study identified 389 goals among 22 firms. The most common goals focused on...

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to investigate why stakeholder frameworks have struggled for acceptance in strategy and to put forward a clearly articulated framework which, while firm‐centric, acknowledges that stakeholders hold the key to organization success....

Spotlights Iridium, the satellite phone system vision company, and how it stole a jump on its competitors when it started in 1998, with global communication networks for international voice, data, and fax communication – but filing for bankruptcy a year later. Declares that Iridium did not...

Acknowledges how the telecoms industry has suffered a long slump and that there have been a number of high‐flying casualties. Contends there are three key strategic thrusts, which increase the likelihood of success: streamline for flexibility; focus to dominate; and expand to adjacent markets....

Purpose – To provide a practical overview of strategic thinking concepts and practices for marketing and other managers that can help them improve their strategy making. Design/methodology/approach – The raw materials of strategic thinking are illustrated by case studies and examples from a...

Purpose – To provide the author's opinions about key issues in strategy and the future to the readership. Design/methodology/approach – Opinion column. Findings – Discussion of the difficulty of reconciling different personality types in the strategy process. Research...

Purpose – Looks at which brands are best positioned for growth and why it is important to actively manage brands as a cohesive portfolio. Design/methodology/approach – Lists four key principles that the best practitioners of brand portfolio management should follow. Findings – The best...

Purpose – To highlight weaknesses in typical analytical approaches to developing strategy and suggest ways of overcoming them Design/methodology/approach – Explain some typical problems by examples; analyse their causes; describe an approach to resolve them by changing the approach to...

Purpose – This article addresses the widespread failure of organizations to turn strategy talk into action. It suggests that underlying this failure is the creation of strategy “ducks” – a term borrowed from the world of architecture for buildings intentionally built as symbols. The...