It has long been recognized that changes in production technology have effects outside the manufacturing unit of the firm. Although researchers have examined the effects of new technologies (e.g. increased automation) on the workforce, these studies have generally examined only technology...

We propose that institutional logics are resources organizations use to leverage their strategic choices. We argue that firms with an awareness of multiple available logics, expressed by a larger stock of competences and a broader industrial scope are more likely to add an institutional logic to...

Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to develop and test a conceptual model of bank performance. Design/methodology/approach - The papers build a system of causal relationships between market structure, strategic choice and bank performance using the path analysis method. The sample includes...

We propose a theory to manage the uneasy relation between strategic choice, chance, and determinism (or inevitability). To do so, we locate arguments in intellectual history that have a clear bearing on this relation. We introduce and defend four conjectures that outline the relationship between...

Emphasising power in strategic choice, we consider people in actual and potential publics kindling their imagination and ideas in order to shape new directions in the economies in which they have an interest. This paper proposes 'public creativity forums', spaces defined by relations aimed at...

I analyze the repayment decisions of firms with multiple loans that, for liquidity constraints or strategic reasons, stop making payments in some but not all their loans. Using a sample of commercial loans from Colombia over the period 2002:03 - 2012:06, I find that firms are less likely to stop...

How exporters choose currency for their exports? Using highly disaggregated data on the population of Russian Federation exporting firms between 2005 and 2009 this paper studies the strategic determinants of currency invoicing decisions. Strategic morives embrace two occurrences in currency...

The concept of corporate social responsibility occurred at the company's level as cause and consequence as well of a whole set of organizational shifts – integrating some global tendencies. New set of values, new attitudes and new behaviors have emerged regarding the strategic choices of...

В статье проанализированы существующие подходы к формированию стратегического решения и осуществления стратегического выбора предприятия. Поскольку эта...

A methodical approach to the choice of a competitive strategy has been developed. Analysis has been made of the available methods for solving multicriteria problems which include: methods of the fuzzy set theory, the utility theory methods, methods of vector stratification analysis, and Saaty's...