STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT OF LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY SURPLUS

In today's uncertain business environment, managing a life insurance company requires a much higher caliber of financial management than in the past. A company must be in a position to control its own destiny, rather than having its fate dictated by outside forces. This paper outlines a framework for managing life insurance company surplus. Within this framework, a company can assess the a…

Towards a Stakeholder Theory of Strategic Management

This paper suggests that due to the changing nature of the firm, viewing shareholders as the sole residual claimants is an increasingly tenuous description of the actual relationships among a corporation’s various stakeholders. Thus, a shareholder wealth perspective is increasingly unsatisfactory for accurately answering the two fundamental questions concerning the theory of the firm: that of…

STRATEGIC THINKING

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The State of Public Strategic Management Research: A Selective Literature Rev…

Strategic planning and related strategic management elements have become ubiquitous practices at all levels of U.S. government and many nonprofit organizations over the past 25 years. The authors review strategic planning and management research over that time period using the premises of practice theory to guide the discussion. The review is organized according to 10 research directions propos…

Strategic Management Accounting and Control

This paper discusses the design characteristics management accounting systems should have to be useful for strategic planning and control and provides brief introductions to strategic variance analysis and profit-linked performance measurement models. It shows two multi-period, multi-product models (Banker, Chang and Majumdar 1993; Banker and Johnston 1989) are specified, can be related to Port…

The Strategic Management Frameworks

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TOWARD A MODEL OF STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT OF PUBLIC RELATIONS: SCENARIO BUILDING…

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Lessons from the Evolution of the Strategy Paradigm

Review of the strategy literature indicates there has been five phases in the evolution of the field since World War II. The paradigm was at its peak in the 1970s with the strategic planning phase, however, prescriptive approaches to strategy formulation and implementation were demonstrated to be inadequate in this period in the face of environmental uncertainty. In the 1980s the field evol…

Relevance of Strategic Management for Universities

This article tries to identify the crucial dimensions of strategic management in universities. To do so, the author looks at some practical cases of successful strategic decisionmaking in European universities. This case study approach is motivated by the conviction that in universities strategic management should be done with a permanent eye on their specific organisational environment ra…

Strategic Management CONCEPTS AND CASES

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13th Edition

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Strategic Management

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STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT AND OPERATIONAL GUIDELINES

The purpose of the guidelines is to highlight the significance of strategic management and strategic planning, and to provide assistance to SAIs on how they should be strategically positioned to meet the challenges of both their internal and external environments. It is intended that the guidelines are used by all SAIs within the PASAI region

Strategic Management Export Consortia

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Strategic Management Process

Wheelen and Hunger (2002) say that strategic management is a set of managerial decisions and actions that determines the long-run performance of an organization. It includes environmental scanning (both external and internal) strategy formulation (strategic or long- range planning), strategy implementation and evaluation and control. The study of strategic management emphasizes the monitori…

Strategic management theory and application

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Strategic Management and Universities’ Institutional Development

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Strategic Management in Construction

This book is aimed at students, graduates, and practitioners in all fields of the built environment. The secund edition has been subject tu a cunsiderable overhaul from the publication of tlie first edition in 1991. At that time the constriaction industry was in the midst of a severe recession and construction corporations were actively considering strategic issues. The professions were st…

Mapping Strategic Management Research

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Mapping Strategic Management Research

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Strategic management

The aim of this study is to examine employee perceptions of flexible work arrangements with special emphasis on part-­‐time work, in light of the different contexts they find themselves in. It further seeks to understand the effects of part-­‐time work on The literature review discusses various contextual factors that impact employee perceptions, such as public and organisational co…

Scenario analysis as a strategic management tool

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Strategic Management Dynamics

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Teaching Strategic Management From A Christian Perspective

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STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT: Problem structuring methods

This paper studies how soft Operational Research methods can be addressed at strategic management tasks. Applying these methodologies to strategic decisions in an organisation helps giving a broader view of the problematic situation is being faced, considering not only the company itself but also its environment. When managers deal with decision-making situations, they often find many diffe…

New Jersey Strategic Management Plan for Invasive Species

This report and set of recommendations was produced pursuant to New Jersey Executive Order #97 which created the New Jersey Invasive Species Council with the charge of completing a comprehensive invasive species management plan for the State of New Jersey. New Jersey has abundant biodiversity, natural resources and agricultural resources that are highly worth protecting for our citizens, bo…

Cases in Strategic Management

In most courses in strategic management, students use cases about actual companies to practice strategic analysis and to gain some experience in the tasks of crafting and implementing strategy. A case sets forth, in a factual manner, the events and organizational circumstances surrounding a particular managerial situation. It puts readers at the scene of the action and familiarizes them wit…

Management Accounting in Support of the Strategic Management Process

This paper reports on the findings of a CIMA-sponsored study into the extent to which management accounting supports the strategic management process

Strategic Management Concepts & Cases

Our goal in writing each edition of this book is to present a new, up-to-date standard for explaining the strategic management process. To reach this goal with the 8th edition of our market-leading text, we again present you with an intellectually rich yet thoroughly practical analysis of strategic management. With each new edition, we are challenged and invigorated by the goal of establish…

THE IMPORTANCE OF STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT: A case study of H&M

Hennes & Mauritz (H&M) is a 100 billion Sweden company, engaged in designing and retailing of fashion apparel and accessories. The company offers a range of apparel, cosmetics, footwear and accessories for men, women, children and teenagers. H&M primarily operates in Europe, North America and Asia, and has a presence in over 38 countries. The company is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden an…

THE INTELLECTUAL EVOLUTION OF STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH …

The main purpose of this paper is to present an overview of the historical development of strategic management through a critical review of the most relevant theoretical proposals, and to consider its links to ethics and corporate social responsibility. From the very beginning of strategic management thought, attempts have been made to fuse ethical aspects, such as the values of senior manage…

A Citation-Based Ranking of Strategic Management Journals

Rankings of strategy journals are important for authors, readers, and promotion and tenure committees.We present several rankings, based either on the number of articles that cited the journal or the per article impact. Our analyses cover various periods between 1991 and 2006, for most of which the Strategic Management Journal was in first place and Journal of Economics & Management Strate…