What is strategic management, really? Inductive derivation of a consensus definition of the field

Nag, Rajiv; Hambrick, Donald C.; Chen, Ming Jer

doi:10.1002/smj.615

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“…For example, downsizing may be considered a voluntary strategic decision to improve performance, but it is also an action for a retrenchment step for turnaround. Accessing the researchers and understand the inductive consensus regarding the phenomenon is important, as Nag, Hambrick and Chen (2007) did for strategy.…”

Section: Challenges To Overcome When Conducting Research On Decline Amentioning

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Organizational Decline Research Review: Challenges and Issues for a Future Research Agenda

Serra

Pinto

Guerrazzi

et al. 2017

BAR, Braz. Adm. Rev.

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Organizational decline is related to the deterioration of the resource base and performance of an organization for a sustained period of time. Although some studies have been conducted, it remains an understudied phenomenon, despite its importance. The study of organizational decline is faced with challenges to improving and increasing research. In this study, we analyze the scientific field of organizational decline in business and management journals with a high impact factor. We conducted a mixed-method study: a bibliometric study of a sample of 214 articles, and a qualitative study with 41 authors. We used an analysis of citations, co-citations and factor analysis. This enabled the identification of the most influential works and their conceptual approaches. The interviews with the authors were analyzed using content analysis, which complemented our understanding of the challenges and problems facing the theme. The results show that organizational decline can be organized into three different aspects: organizational decline itself; studies on turnaround; and mortality. Specific challenges to overcome are related to a better definition, cognitive issues and other issues on decision-making and specific methodological problems. In addition, it is necessary to evaluate whether theories that explain growth are also able to explain decline.

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Section: Challenges To Overcome When Conducting Research On Decline Amentioning

confidence: 99%

Organizational Decline Research Review: Challenges and Issues for a Future Research Agenda

Serra

Pinto

Guerrazzi

et al. 2017

BAR, Braz. Adm. Rev.

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“…Ronda-Pupo and Guerras-Martin (2012) have extended recent reflection on the evolution of strategic management by analyzing the field's object of study: strategy. Despite its wide diffusion and the application of central models and concepts, there are many definitions of the strategy concept and strategic management, most of which lack an integrating nature (Nag, Hambrick and Chen, 2007). Further, although strategy is one of the most taught and studied concept, it is paradoxically also one of the least understood (Ronda-Pupo and Guerras-Martin, 2012).…”

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Coping Strategies Adopted by Public Universities in Kenya in Response to Environmental Changes

Mathooko¹,

Ogutu²

2014

JMS

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This study was undertaken to establish strategies adopted by public universities in Kenya in response to changes in the environment. The study design was descriptive and utilized a cross-sectional survey of all the public universities in Kenya through administration of a structured questionnaire to the top management team. Additional primary data were collected through observations and interviews. Secondary data were collected from published works and, universities and government documents in public domain in order to corroborate the data collected from the primary sources. Positive responses were received from 63 respondents out of 91, yielding a 69.4% response rate. The universities adopted Porter's generic competitive strategy model, of cost leadership, differentiation and focus to counter the challenges experienced, and in particular cost leadership and differentiation. The extent of adoption of differentiation strategy was significantly different (p<0.05) between the old and new universities and not among the three categories of public universities, that is, old, new and university colleges. Grand strategies adopted were diversification in related business, expansion and strategic alliances. The major operational strategies adopted included, management leadership in the formulation of response strategies, distributed leadership, benchmarking, and mounting of evening and weekend programmes. Some operational strategies adopted by some universities were, however, unethical and may compromise quality. The results indicate that the coping strategies adopted by public universities in Kenya in response to changes in the environment are more or less similar to those applied by corporate organizations among them, grand strategies and Porter's generic competitive strategy.

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“…Chen [26] Analysis of the concept of "strategic management" through the use of research on journal J. C. Short, and T. B. Palmer [32] The study of the mechanisms for judging personal success through the analysis of 119 letters to shareholders in the restaurant sector J. Uotila, M. Maula, T. Keil, and S. A. Zahra [34] Analysis of exploration and exploitation related to performance for companies in the S&P 500 M. S. Yadav, J. C. Prabhu, and R. K. Chandy [38] Analysis of the banking sector on the attention of the CEO to innovation.…”

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Understanding the Strategic Organization Propensity Through “Managerial Discussion and Analysis”

Pisano¹,

Vagnani²,

Pironti³

et al. 2011

IJTEF

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Abstract-The objective of this work is to investigate the content analysis methodology in the strategic propensity such as explorative/exploitative behavior. After theoretical analysis on the meaning and definition of exploitation and exploration, the authors have applied the content analysis methodology to a practice case. The conclusion is that the qualitative content analysis is a good methodology to study the strategy propensity having the same results of the other methodologies used in the strategy researches such as practice case and grounded theory.

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What is strategic management, really? Inductive derivation of a consensus definition of the field

Cited by 588 publications

References 68 publications

Organizational Decline Research Review: Challenges and Issues for a Future Research Agenda

Organizational Decline Research Review: Challenges and Issues for a Future Research Agenda

Coping Strategies Adopted by Public Universities in Kenya in Response to Environmental Changes

Understanding the Strategic Organization Propensity Through “Managerial Discussion and Analysis”

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