Purpose – The study presented in this paper is intended to assist the decision‐making process in Romanian higher education institutions on topics such as market structure analysis, market segmentation, positioning of the specializations, and the cannibalization between them....

Purpose – Many managers would like to take a strategic approach to preparing the organisation to avoid impending crisis but instead find themselves fire‐fighting to mitigate its impact. This paper seeks to examine an organisation which made major strategic changes in order to respond to the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose Bourdieu's theory of practice (TOP) as a useful framework for conceptualizing agents' strategizing by considering players' strategizing as based on their habituses and capitals as well as their assessments of their relevant field(s)....

Purpose – In light of and due to the spike in concern regarding high hazard industries, in general, and nuclear power plants (NPPs) in particular, resulting from the Japanese earthquake and crisis at Fukushima, the purpose of this paper is to offer an innovative organizational development (OD)...

Co‐operation between two or more firms joined in an alliance is becoming increasingly important in competitive international business. It is a means to an end whereby firms gain from each other′s respective qualities and attributes in aiming towards business success. The degree of commitment...

If strategic planning systems have failed it is because managers have failed to adapt them to the changed contexts of their businesses. Four distinct contexts are identified: Pioneer, Expand, Reorient, and Dominate. These labels are chosen to indicate the primary challenge for the business unit...

Based on an extensive survey of joint ventures (JVs) in the information technology industry, this article develops a profile of the joint venturing firm, explores joint venture motivations, and relates joint venture success to conditions that motivate JV formation. Findings suggest that JVs are...

This article examines the attitudes of chief executives across five service industries (transportation and travel; retail; financial services; communications and information; and professional services) to explore industry differences with regard to strategic challenges, as well as links between...

Discusses some of the issues that need addressing when a consultant applies organization development principles to a large system change such as South Africa. The 11 issues covered emerge because of the differences between traditional organization development and large systems change. Encourages...

Organizational change inevitably involves uncertainty and hence some risk taking. Tests the relationship between organizational slack and risk taking in organization decision making, and thus provides some evidence on the role or organizational variables in risk‐taking behaviour. Product...