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Identifying and Developing Referral Channels
Herriott, Scott R. - In: Management Decision 30 (1992) 1
‐operative strategy. Points out the significance of referral channels to a firm′s environmental analysis and business‐unit strategic …
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A framework for situation room analysis and exploration of its application potential in the information technologies market
Roberts, Bob; Koumpis, Adamantios - In: Management Decision 42 (2004) 7, pp. 882-891
Work presented in this paper forms part of a wider research in defining a methodological framework for situation room analysis (SRA), and its employment for complex (business enterprise) systems study. More specifically, we investigate the area of multiparty collaboration and decision‐making...
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Organizational disasters: why they happen and how they may be prevented
Wei Choo, Chun - In: Management Decision 46 (2008) 1, pp. 32-45
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to look at why organizational disasters happen, and to discuss how organizations can improve their ability to recognize and respond to warning events and conditions before they tailspin into catastrophe. Design/methodology/approach – A review of...
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Information sources for environmental scanning: do industry and firm size matter?
Haase, Heiko; Franco, Mário - In: Management Decision 49 (2011) 10, pp. 1642-1657
Purpose – The objective of this paper is to enhance the knowledge about environmental scanning at the corporate level. It seeks an answer to the research question: Is there an influence of industry sector and firm size on the use of external information sources? Design/methodology/approach –...
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Normative interventions, emergent cognition and decision rationality in ad hoc and established groups
Curşeu, Petru; Schruijer, Sandra - In: Management Decision 50 (2012) 6, pp. 1062-1075
Purpose – As normative interventions (NIs) have been claimed to be effective in improving decision quality in groups, the aim of the paper is to address the effectiveness of NIs in ad hoc and established groups across several task domains. Design/methodology/approach – Three experimental...
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Knowledge stock, ambidextrous learning, and firm performance
Lee, Cheng‐Yu; Huang, Yen‐Chih - In: Management Decision 50 (2012) 6, pp. 1096-1116
Purpose – This study aims to examine the relationships among knowledge stock, ambidextrous learning, and firm performance while considering the moderating effect of firm size. Design/methodology/approach – This study uses R&D scoreboard database to produce a sample of 312 firms which operate...
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Crowdsourcing, innovation and firm performance
Xu, Yejun; Ribeiro-Soriano, D. Enrique; Gonzalez-Garcia, J. - In: Management Decision 53 (2015) 6, pp. 1158-1169
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify whether firms that correctly use crowdfunding tools perform significantly better than firms that do not. For that purpose the authors develop a model that relates crowdfunding, innovation distinctive competences and its potential to create...
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Is corporate communications a strategic function?
Dolphin, Richard R.; Fan, Ying - In: Management Decision 38 (2000) 2, pp. 99-107
of corporate communications upon the formulation of corporate strategy.  …
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Levels of strategic decision success
Harrison, E. Frank; Pelletier, Monique A. - In: Management Decision 38 (2000) 2, pp. 107-118
This article posits a paradigm of levels of success for strategic decision outcomes. A high level of strategic decision success is normally preceded by a positive strategic gap in which the strengths of the organization clearly outweigh its weaknesses. Three comprehensive cases are set forth as...
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Strategy as a response to organizational uncertainty: an alternative perspective on the strategy‐performance relationship
Parnell, John A.; Lester, Donald L.; Menefee, Michael L. - In: Management Decision 38 (2000) 8, pp. 520-530
internal capabilities. This study supports the notion that strategy is formulated in part as a response to management … varies by generic strategy, suggesting that businesses consider both the type and degree of uncertainty when crafting a … competitive strategy. Specifically, the data suggest that viable strategic options may be limited more by the cognitive and …
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