TStrategy and strategic management are two concepts that must not be mixed up. The process of strategic management includes, among others, the foundation and drafting of a strategy. Furthermore, strategy also represents an efficient means to adapt and answer to the requests of the external...

In this paper, using a unique dataset of joint-stock companies, we empirically examine the determinants of the choice and size of the collective executive board, a core element of the multi-tier board system of Russian firms. Our empirical evidence strongly suggests that the need of company...

With the advancements in information systems, 'business intelligence (BI)' has gained considerable ground in business and strategic decision making. A number of studies show the relation between BI and business value, and provide ample evidence of uses of BI. The present study contributes to the...

With the changing business environment, the ability of the traditional costing system to provide accurate and useful information to management about costs of products or services has decreased and hence, modern costing systems, like activity-based costing (ABC) are developed to overcome the...

Ever since 2007, along with the completion of the EU accession process, but also before that, our country has constantly focused on improving local government standards either through a solid and sustained reform or through public system management renewal and enhancement. In the actual context,...

In this paper I choose to approach this subject because I think the measure in which the beneficiaries of these services are satisfied represents, in fact, one of the best ways to measure the quality of provided services, of strategic management efficiency and is also a good way to identify the...

Although the healthy organisation has attracted the attention of researchers over the last decade and beyond, the concept remains poorly defined. Nonetheless, there would appear to be an underlying acceptance that health is a desirable state, and is one which is likely to enable the organisation...

Advances the argument that Western management must increasingly decode the organizational and cultural features of Japanese‐style management – if managerial conflict is to be reduced in joint ventures, subsidiaries, mergers, and relocations – and if Western management is to consider...

Changing an organization requires a good deal of self‐confidence. When strategic change takes place either this confidence derives from the situation confronting the executive, usually some form of crisis, or executives derive confidence from implementing a familiar recipe, drawn from their...