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Empirical studies of strategising face contradictory pressures. Ethnographic approaches are attractive, and typically expected. We argue, however, that todays large, multinational, and highly diversified organisational settings require supplementary methods providing more breadth and flexibility. This paper discusses three particularly promising approaches (interactive discussion groups, self-reports, and practitioner-led research) that fit the increasingly disparate research paradigms now being used to understand strategising and other management issues. Each of these approaches is based on the idea that strategising research cannot advance significantly without reconceptualising frequently taken-for-granted assumptions. The paper focuses in particular on the importance of working with organisational members as research partners rather than passive informants.

How important is competition in the product market to the economic performance of the firm? How important is the corporate governance structure of the firm to its performance? How does external competition interact with corporate governance to influence firm performance? These questions are posed in a dramatic way in transition economies because product market competition and profit-seeking organizations with new ownership structures were both introduced within a short time period. This paper does not answer these questions. Its aim is to bring together the several often separate literatures that discuss the issues. In the first part, the competition-performance link in theory and empirical work is examined. In the second part, the ownership and governance structures in the firm and in particular, those that affect the key performance-related decision-making processes are investigated. In the third part, the sparse attention given in the literature to the possible interaction between external market pressures and corporate governance structures is considered. In each section, reference is made first to the theory and evidence from outside transition and second to transition-specific models and evidence.

This paper contributes to the understanding of the importance of dynamic firm capabilities for corporate performance in isolating the effect of core competences on the performance of companies. It discusses and tests the assumed relation between core competences and economic performance, including the effect of the external appropriation of these competences through mergers and acquisitions as well as through strategic technology alliances. A major conclusion is that, particularly in high-tech sectors, a specific set of endogenous technological core capabilities is needed to generate performance differentials. Also, the external appropriation of competences does not seem to be an easy solution through which companies can improve their existing capabilities.

The objective of this paper is to contribute to a perspective on economic performance; i.e. the interaction between norms specific to a company, the knowledge basis of the company and innovation. The main questions in this article are: What is the connection between norms specific to the company, the knowledge basis of the company and innovation? The main thesis in the article is that a companys capabilities are primarily developed on the basis of social norms and values already existing in the social relations of the company. This in turn influences how the company develops and applies the knowledge basis, thus influencing innovation strategies.

Книга посвящена широкому кругу проблем, связанных с менеджментом в сфере услуг. В ней раскрываются такие вопросы, как понимание и характеристика услуг в современном обществе, покупательское поведение, сервисный дизайн, управление системой предоставления услуг. Авторы рассматривают концепции, теорию и практику управления сервисной деятельностью, в частности операционный менеджмент, маркетинг, международный менеджмент, экономику, стратегическое управление, психологию, управление человеческими ресурсами. Книга будет интересна как менеджерам, занятым в сфере услуг, так и ученым, занимающимся проблематикой данной сферы, а также студентам вузов, изучающим маркетинг, менеджмент, сервисную деятельность.

According to the publishers, this book brings together the latest insights and ideas on senior leadership from the world's foremost business thinkers and practitioners. Successful organizational transformation requires vigilance, appetite for change, concerted effort, and clarity of purpose from the CEO, the top management team, and the Board of Directors. This collection examines all three parties and their roles in designing and navigating effective change.

Книга "Конкурируя за будущее. Создание рынков завтрашнего дня" Г. Хамела и К. К. Прахалада, известных специалистов в области делового администрирования и международного бизнеса, знакомит читателей с их новыми яркими идеями и подходами. Цель авторов - мотивировать менеджеров и руководителей компаний отойти от традиционной практики сокращения штатов при преобразовании своих предприятий. Взамен они предлагают компаниям стратегию завоевания лидирующий позиций не только на существующих, но и на будущих рынках. Из книги читатель узнает, как пробудить и развить в себе талант предвидения, необходимого для последовательного изменения отрасли, как разработать стратегическое намерение и мобилизовать свою компанию на его реализацию, как создать ключевые компетенции для будущего, расширить границы корпоративного воображения и оживить процесс создания нового бизнеса. "Конкурируя за будущее" - это в равной степени учебник для революционеров в бизнесе и руководство по созданию рынков будущего. Книга адресована тем, кто не хочет довольствоваться ролью догоняющего, кто убежден, что лучший путь к успеху - это переделать правила игры, кто не боится подвергать сомнению традиции и более склонен строить, чем переделывать. Книга предназначена для предпринимателей и профессиональных менеджеров, стремящихся преуспеть в конкуренции за будущие рынки. Она будет интересна также преподавателям и студентам, готовящимся вступить на путь создания новой экономики, полный трудностей, борьбы и творчества.

This book provides a readable understanding of strategic management and its importance to the success of a wide range of organizations in the private, public, and voluntary sectors. Focusing on the processes of developing strategy, gaining a competitive advantage, creating key competencies, developing strategic marketing, and managing strategic change, this book provides provocative solutions to major management problems

The importance of product paths on assembly lines have since long been acknowledged. What if the same idea was applied to the paths of project supplies? Could the description and perception of such journeys, reaching throughout the supply chain to the already operating outcome of the whole project, be of interest in management science? This study aims at implicating ways of facilitating and enhancing site based project management. This is not done in the same way as for an assembly line, but, instead, empirical methods brought about through participant observation will be used.

In this paper we draw on Niklas Luhmanns social systems theory, and in particular his concept of an episode, to guide research into strategic practice and its relationship to the operating routines of an organization. Episodes, in Luhmanns theory, provide a mechanism by which a system can suspend its routine structures and so initiate a reflection on and change of these structures. Applying this theory to the organisational process of strategic change, the authors draw attention to the routine nature of strategic episodes and to their organisational role as the effective locus of strategic practice and the interaction between strategic and operating routines.

"Лидерство без границ" - книга, в которой изложены новейшие концепции в области менеджмента, стратегического управления, маркетинга и намечены контуры перемен и новаций, ведущих к успеху в новом мире без границ. По мнению авторов - ведущих бизнес-стратегов компании Accenture и признанных специалистов в области менеджмента из фонда Дракера, современные лидеры должны вырваться из узких границ своих офисов и научиться эффективно использовать информационные технологии, создавать альянсы, партнерства и сетевые организации.
В книге затронуты проблемы лидерства и управления не только в контексте бизнеса, но также исследованы вопросы оптимизации деятельности некоммерческих организаций и государственных структур. Таким образом, книга заинтересует самый широкий круг руководителей, а также преподавателей и учащихся экономических вузов.
М.: Альпина Паблишер, 2001. - 315 с.

Are there some generic characteristics of European management research on research be described compared to mainstream research from USA? Is there a need to develop a distinct European research and teaching agenda? And how can European corporate governance researchers make contributions on the international arena? These are some of the issues that will be raised and discussed in this paper.

Considerable attention has been directed towards corporate governance issues in recent years. There are however various limitations in the international mainstream research on boards of directors. Few studies address research questions beyond investigating the relationship between board composition and company performance. Most research is moreover based on empirical evidence from large publicly held US corporations. This paper summarises the accumulated knowledge from 100 student reports on boards of directors in Scandinavia. The contributions of the reports show the need to explore the influence of various contingencies, and also to take various stakeholder perspectives into account when researching corporate governance and boards of directors. The reports also show the need to go beyond counting only numbers of directors to gain insight into board working structures and relationships between directors and managers. Several advantages compared to the US mainstream research tradition can in this connection be found in Scandinavian research about boards of directors.

Boards of directors and corporate governance debates have been highly focused in the business press and even in research, but few universities offer courses on these topics. In this paper a research and teaching model is introduced, and we will show some examples of how such courses may be designed and how they relate to research. Examples are given for executive courses, undergraduate courses and graduate courses. The paper concludes by presenting the second international doctoral course on governance in SMEs.

Что такое стратегическое планирование и чем оно отличается от тактического и долгосрочного? Какие цели и задачи следует ставить в процессе планирования? Как выработать стратегическое мышление и у топ менеджеров, и у рядовых работников? На эти и другие вопросы ответит эта книга, написанная известным специалистом в области стратегического планирования Дэвидом Хасси. Книга предназначена для студентов вузов, изучающих менеджмент, маркетинг, управление персоналом, для практических работников и всех, интересующихся данной тематикой.