Studies of industry evolution are relatively scarce outside of industries defined by narrow technological bases. Studies of wholesaling are rarer still. These are curious features given that it is probable that service industries behave differently to manufacturing ones and that wholesaling is...

One recent development in the organizational economics approach to strategy management concerns the integration of the organizational capabilities view and the transaction costs theory. My dissertation takes on this task focusing on transaction costs economics, dynamic capabilities, and temporal...

The grocery retailing industry is a key sector of the UK economy, accounting for 16%of consumer expenditure. As such developments in this sector will have an importanteffect on UK economic and social welfare. Arguably, competition in the sector hasintensified in the last two decades. Yet...

This theoretical article introduces the construct of CEO celebrity in order to explain how the tendency of journalists to attribute a firm's actions and outcomes to the volition of its CEO affects such firm. In the model developed here, journalists celebrate a CEO whose firm takes strategic...

This dissertation explores the search behavior of CEOs and how this behavior relates to the opportunities they recognize and take action upon. Opportunities are defined in this dissertation as the perception of a novel and appropriate resource combination acted upon or seized for potential gain....

This article presents a discussion on the importance of business intelligence (BI) and therole that a specific BI tool, Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition, plays in the strategicdecision-making processes in an organisation. The University of the Witwatersrand,often referred to as Wits, was...

In the paper are presented results of research MSM 6215648904, (Brno, 2005) in the area of strategical decision making with emphasize on methods of decision making which make to the company possible to react changes in entrepreneurial environment. The research results argue for the necessity of...

In this paper, the authors present the modern theoretical aspects of concentration in the market with a focus on the banking sector and the impact on the process of making strategic decisions. In this context, recent empirical and theoretical researches, which are supported by findings from...