Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop an outsourcing matrix and explains how outsourcing can be used to facilitate strategic innovation. Design/methodology/approach – The methodology used in this study is of an explanatory case study. This paper uses secondary data as well as...

The study of top management teams, which began with confidence, optimism, and promise, has been plagued by criticisms arising from mixed or weak findings and poor explanatory power of firm outcomes vis‐à‐vis other variables. This paper argues that the disputed phenomenon of top management...

Purpose – This author reminds us that strategic thinking is a critical part of every manager's job. Because strategy implies competing and outwitting competitors, so it follows that strategic thinking is the process of finding alternative ways of competing and providing customer value....

Extending Simon’s (1990) work, this paper proposes an effective management control system that allows companies to integrate different management control systems in order to improve operational effectiveness, employee creativity, and company competitiveness. Reviews conventional and modern...

The need for management to better anticipate the future is the urgent message currently being advocated by consultants in strategic market planning. Uses a survey of high‐level managers from Fortune 1,000 corporations to illustrate the advantages of cultivating a flexible mindset concerning...

Purpose – The dramatic growth and international scope of knowledge‐intensive business services (KIBS) are evident in emerging markets such as China and India. Nations, like firms, seek to capitalize on their available resources and capabilities (e.g. people, technology, skills) in order to...

Champions companies finding out what their opposition is doing through competitive intelligence departments, or a third‐party professional. Believes that if a company identifies, maps and analyses the opposition it will have a greater chance of success, which will then allow a plan to be...

Purpose – Firms are increasingly confronted with a complex and dynamic competitive environment. The purpose of this paper is to shed some light on the way firms can cope with – and succeed in – such an environment. Design/methodology/approach – The article examines major factors that are...