In this paper we present the results of an exploratory study about specific organizative characteristics that innovative companies possess. This study is part of a wider research work about the innovative behavior of firms (Camelo et al, 2001). The case study about four organizations included in the Andalusian Innovations Network reveals that certain factors do exist which behave as the literature supposes they should, along with other factors which are also worthy of consideration given that they contribute to improving our understanding of innovation within a company.

"Школы стратегий" - великолепная книга, написанная специалистом для специалистов. Обыкновенному стратегическому лидеру корпорации (директору) она не покажется простой. При этом книга является лучшей публикацией, в которой не только рассмотрены почти все направления стратегического менеджмента, но также при этом приведен синтез. Книга является замечательным подспорьем для студентов, аспирантов и прочих желающих написать современную работу по стратегическому управлению. Она очень полезна для преподавателей стратменеджмента (помогает развить представление о стратегическом управлении дальше СВОТ-анализа и миссии). Большинству стандартных российских консультационных компаний, возможно, стоит ее закупить в больших количествах (и прочитать, естественно) для понимания отличий стратегического менеджмента от того, что они продают клиентам.

This paper argues that executives and managers need to reevaluate and to reengineer their performance measurement system to make it more pertinent so that it would serve as an effective trigger as well as a critical piloting and control mechanism for effecting strategic management intervention.

In this exploratory study, the authors set out to develop and test a dynamic and integrative framework on strategic change. On the basis of theoretical arguments and prior empirical evidence from the adaptation and inertial perspectives, the researchers propose an original empirical model to examine whether potential determinants of strategic change remain stable over time in a hypercompetitive environment. The authors look for an answer to this question in the Spanish private bank industry during a period of high strategic mobility as consequence of continuous and drastic environmental transformations. The results strongly support that the effect of potential determinants of strategic mobility in this industry did not remain stable over the whole period of analysis. From this point of view, the study sheds new light on major debates and dilemmas in the field of strategy regarding why firms change theirs competitive patterns over time, and hence whether the adaptation and inertial views really must be considered as complementary perspectives. Furthermore, the paper introduces two important methodological innovations which facilitate future empirical replies. First, the definition and measurement of strategic change by employing a new grouping method, the MCLUST. Second, the control of the non-observable heterogeneity using panel data models for logit regression.