Partnering with the Census we implement a new survey of "structured" management practices in 32,000 US manufacturing … plants. We find an enormous dispersion of management practices across plants, with 40% of this variation across plants within … the same firm. This management variation accounts for about a fifth of the spread of productivity, a similar fraction as …

that lean management is more likely applied by larger manufacturer. Hence, this study is limited to the analysis of …

management approaches – the customer value and the resource and capability based strategic management – the authors have …

approaches of the managers, the corporate performance appraisal and the management decision support role, and the corporate …

, strategic planning and strategic management. There might be a controversy existing about the naming, characteristics and timing … outstandingly interesting if we consider their real effect on the theory and practice of strategic management. Let us remember the … on the long run. During the research the big question has risen concerning how did the science of strategic management do …