Essays on Strategic Management

Previous studies have mainly focused on value creation and capture in the BE, which also largely overlaps with business model studies. However, they seem to have paid less attention to the embedded resource around the established value chain or platform ecosystem. The embedded resources will…

An enduring problem for strategic management is the sustainability of policy initiatives. Institutional theory suggests that self-regulatory structures can become institutionalized in organizations that adopt them, generating both a real commitment to regulatory compliance and a set of practices to support this commitment. Nevertheless, very…

Individuals have the authority, initiative and ability to manage their own work which creates a sense of ownership and responsibility towards the organization (Denison et al., 2006). Empowerment has been linked to fundamental issues like individual motivation, delegation of authority, job design, participative decision making,…

In recent years the terms sustainability and resilience have been compared, differentiated, and used interchangeably by a variety of different writers and scientists. The lack of a proper understanding behind both concepts causes confusion and debate about whether or not they are the same term,…

As a lifelong member of the Richardson community, I know firsthand how we like to think of ourselves as a jewel in the DFW area with small town connections and big city amenities. Regardless of the booming size, community really comes down to relationships and…

Strategic management has evolved to be a demanding and extremely complex subject. Rightfully so, with the number of corporate failures that seem to appear with monotonous regularity, it is vital that a subject such as this is thoroughly research and published with some arguing that…

The following section discusses the amalgamation between traditional methods like PMBOK, waterfall and the modern agile method. It also debates a case study with an introduction of a subjective agile strategy on top of an already existing Waterfall operated software and hardware team in the…

Companies (at least most of them) cannot serve and communicate with all the customer of a large and diverse market and they need to divide it to more manageable groups (or segments) with clear boundaries in order to serve them well. Segmentation, Targeting and Positioning…

Introduction This report is aimed at provision of insights into the future strategic course to be adopted by Flipkart Inc. The report consists of five parts. The first part, basing itself on the history of operations of the past five years, is an analysis of…

Hamel and Heene, (1994) define core competencies as firm-specific skills and cognitive traits that are engaged towards the fulfilment of the maximum possible heights of customer satisfaction. Core competencies could be applied to satisfy present customers or to develop a wide variety of core products…