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THE IMPACT OF GENDER ON STRATEGIC TYPOLOGY IN THE HOTEL INDUSTRY IN CANADA
Blayney, Candace; Blotnicky, Karen - In: Global Journal of Business Research 5 (2011) 4, pp. 107-117
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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Management Consultants as Sensitive Information Hawkers Serving Firm's Competition
Babeau, Olivier - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2007
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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Profiles of Product Innovators Among Large U.S. Manufacturers
Capon, Noel; Farley, John U.; Lehmann, Donald R.; … - In: Management Science 38 (1992) 2, pp. 157-169
This paper identifies four groups among 113 Fortune 500 manufacturers that approach innovation quite differently. The …. Both product innovation and financial performance differ significantly over the groups, and a group of 42 firms that invest … heavily in innovation perform best financially. A smaller group of firms that are not innovative but which follow a strategy …
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What Do Companies in the Processing Industry do in Order to Achieve Success?
BONA, Peter; LIPPERT, Robert - In: Expert Journal of Business and Management 3 (2015) 1, pp. 53-61
Borders of countries and continents have become more and more blurred by now, while distances have turned out to be less important. Markets of continents or countries are not separated anymore therefore competition between companies has gotten fiercer and much faster than earlier. What kind of...
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