Discusses General Electric (GE) and the way it has adapted and implemented strategy to changing market‐place conditions. Elaborates on GE's origination from the Edison Electric Light Company set up by Thomas Edison in 1878. Shows how entrepreneurial leadership has helped the company to...

Contends organizations need some possibilities to enable change to survive or exploit shifts and terms of their environments. Highlights, in a panel, the flexibility main points for organizations and uses a Table and Figures for extra explanatory information. States there are three basic...

Submits that many organizations adopt, unwittingly, the rationalist approach to strategy formulation. Reckons that scenarios provide business planners with means of bringing together apparently unconnected fragments of information into views of the future. Posits organizations that develop...

Points out that strategic managers already face enormous pressures to get everything right in terms of cost, quality, and customer satisfaction and supply chain issues. Suggests three steps for achieving a successful e‐business design: self‐diagnosis; reversing the value chain; and choosing...

This book provides a clear and concise explanation of withholding tax and how to leverage best practice to generate improved investment performance. It gives practical guidance to financial service firms and investors to help them understand the issues involved, trends and practicalities of...

Maintaining a consistently trending portfolio of complements is vital to sustaining platform leadership. Prior research has highlighted the value of open innovation, but has largely disregarded the strategic identification and management of distinctive complements that drive extended platform...

Tourism and air transport are among the sectors most affected by the Covid-19 crisis. The pandemic lasting more than a year is reflected in short-term effects in both sectors, but there are also severe long-term consequences. National authorities will have to set recovery plans following the...