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This research explores the impact of gender on managerial styles, especially the strategic typology employed by hotel managers in Canada during economic stressful times. Miles and Snow’s strategic typology framework of defender, prospector, analyzer and reactor was employed and explored...
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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 article is to find out if there is a necessity of doing research in business strategies due to differences between businesses in industrial and postindustrial era. Business strategies are a key factor of success. Only a company with a good strategy can beat others in hard...
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Information technologies have a deep impact on companies and their strategy especially now in so called postindustrial era. A company in sophisticated sector as service sector is strongly influenced by information technologies and must adapt to new rules or at least to new tools to not to lose...
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There are two basic views of the internet strategy. The traditional one says that the internet is just a new technology a powerful tool but nothing else. There is no reason to rethink the rules of entrepreneurship and strategy. As the technology is new the optimal approaches did not already...
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Research on the linkages between family firms, innovation and change is scant and lacking empirical investigation. In … capacity of family businesses and the degree and manner to which innovation can lead to change or even be the change needed in … the context of strategic reorientation. The research investigates innovation with reference to the resource perspective …
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competitive. Historically the different eras were characterized by different types of innovation. The changes were moving from …
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of innovation, this paper is divided in three parts. In first part it discusses the business model itself, how to design …
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This research identified the capabilities used by Canadian hotel general managers during a time of economic stress and examines the relationships between capabilities and hotel performance. The instrument used in this study was the New Zealand Management Capability Index (NZIMCI) and contains...
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