Strategic management ensures organisational performance by creating and shaping effective strategy to outwit competition. Intended strategy and realised strategy do not necessarily coincide, resulting in a performance gap. Various reasons are advanced for this performance gap. Some researchers...

Most international oil companies have historically used South Africa as their regional headquarters from which to drive their strategies within the South African Developing Community (SADC) region. The SADC based companies or subsidiaries view South Africa as a head office of the international...

Ein empirisch belegtes Phänomen ist die steigende Anzahl strategischer Allianzen von Unternehmen, speziell in dynamischen Wettbewerbsumgebungen. Über strategische Allianzen versuchen Unternehmen, auch in einer dynamischen Wettbewerbsumwelt unter hoher Unsicherheit Wettbewerbsvorteile...

Today we live in a world that is characterized by a constantly changing environment. During the last decade, this highly volatile environment forced companies to implement strategies that identify, track and minimise the risks that entrepreneurial activity entails. Unfortunately, risks only...

Ziel und Inhalt der Arbeit ist es, auf Basis von Ressourcen und der Organisation (Koordination und Kontrolle) von Ressourcentransaktionen Erkl?rungen f?r die Generierung von Renten ?konomischer Akteure zu gewinnen. Dazu wendet sich die Arbeit folgenden Fragenkomplexen zu:1. Welche Renten- und...

The main goal of this thesis is to suggest how Nordic-Systems ApS should develop its competitive advantage. Three objectives are formulated to reach the goal. The first thesis objective is to make situation analysis, which consists of external and internal analysis of the company. Situation...

Although there has recently been an increased practitioner and media focus on electronic marketplaces, there still remains confusion over the advantages of participation. As a consequence organisations are finding difficulty in developing strategies, policies and procedures in relation to the...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to test the null hypothesis that there is no significant association between perceived environmental uncertainty (PEU) and a three component conceptualisation of commitment. Design/methodology/approach: Data were collected from owner/managers of community...

While organizational behaviourists have largely adopted a three-component conceptualisation of attitudinal commitment, marketers continue exclusively to apply one- or two-component models. In this paper, the reliability and validity of one-, two- and three-component models of commitment are...

Full-text of this article is not available in this e-prints service. This article was originally published [following peer-review] in Qualitative Market Research: An International Journal, published by and copyright Emerald Group Publishing Limited.