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Purpose: This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach: This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings: This research paper's findings suggest that, given that the goals of incremental innovation and breakthrough innovation differ, pursuing each of these innovation types would require contrasting business strategies and resource use. However, industry insights and evidence from previous research indicates that pursuing incremental and breakthrough innovation in a coordinated way, together with implementing dual innovation development mechanisms, can create a solid base for sustainable development. Originality/value: The briefing saves busy executives, strategists and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach: This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings: This paper outlines the different marketing strategies that can be employed when expanding into international markets. Originality/value: The briefing saves busy executives, strategists and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach: This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings: The study shows that big data usage can lead to radical innovation among Chinese SMEs. Business strategy alignment also positively impacts radical innovation, and both these effects become more pronounced when the firm has an information sharing culture. Originality/value: The briefing saves busy executives, strategists, and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design: This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings: The study finds synergistic effects of corporate philanthropy and global strategic posture on firm performance. Originality: The briefing saves busy executives, strategists, and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach: This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings: This paper focuses on developing and validating a scale to assist with social media marketing by proposing a system for firms to use when tasked with digital marketing. Originality/value: The briefing saves busy executives, strategists and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies.Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context.Findings This paper uncovers the effect that successful cloud technology service implementation has on business strategy. The surveyed respondents strategically incorporated cloud services either to maintain a competitive position, to bolster innovation, or to reduce their costs.Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives, strategists, and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies.Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context.Findings This paper concentrates on delivering a framework to assist middle managers in contributing to their organization in a more entrepreneurial fashion. This is achieved by giving them steps against which to assess opportunities for business model change and innovation, as well as steps that provide clarity on how to gain key stakeholder support for their more meaningful involvement.Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives, strategists, and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach: This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings: HR flexibility and a targeted approach to HR investment of resources can bring improved performance to a firm where flexibility and agility are required. Originality/value: The briefing saves busy executives, strategists and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach: This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings: This research paper concentrates on setting out a range of strategic entrepreneurial approaches that are adopted during economic booms or economic crises. Those entrepreneurs who apply themselves creatively to pivoting their business strategy during a recession give themselves the opportunity to reap the highest rewards if their approach is successful. This may involve adapting existing strategies or forming novel ones amid considerable uncertainty. The mental capacity for enduring these scenarios is what sets entrepreneurs apart as insatiably evolving, knowledge-gathering leaders who can transform society despite the odds being against them. Originality/value: The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach: This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings: This research paper concentrates on unpacking the relationship between green business strategy and export financial performance in emerging market manufacturing firms, specifically in Turkey. Overall, the pursuit of a green business strategy did increase the financial performance of the surveyed emerging market firms. This was achieved by combining green product differentiation with a committed cost leadership process, as a way of mitigating the additional expense associated with designing green products that appeal to consumers in international markets. Originality/value: The briefing saves busy executives, strategists and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design: This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings: The study identifies major online marketing strategies, business models and technologies utilized by family firms. Originality: The briefing saves busy executives, strategists, and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach: This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings: Supply chain disruption during a severe crisis has serious implications for SMEs in the grocery-retail sector. Affected firms must use information and communications technology to enhance collaboration with key supply chain partners so that closer links can be formed. Appropriate business strategies can help increase the flexibility of SMEs, reduce their dependency on external partners and better equip them to meet the challenge. Originality/value: The briefing saves busy executives, strategists and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies.Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context.Findings This research paper concentrates on two case studies that reveal a community-oriented and a market-oriented strategy pursued by migrant entrepreneurs in one US city. The ways that social capital is deployed and the skill-based resources of the entrepreneur are key variables in the financial output of a community-centric business.Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives, strategists and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present a viewpoint on aligning strategy and execution to produce superior business results. Design/methodology/approach: The paper examines the long-term financials of the top ten growers to reveal companies that have continued to grow in good economic times and bad, including the Great Recession. While some companies dug deeper into their core businesses during the financial crisis, others continued to innovate. Findings: Where companies continued to focus on strategy execution, they were rewarded, for example, Amazon's compound annual growth rate for the ten-year period that included the financial crisis was 36.45 per cent; in the past three years, Amazon's compound annual growth rate (CAGR) has been 56.76 per cent. Most of the top ten long-term growers are headed by the same founder/entrepreneur. Research limitations/implications: Look beyond the past three years for models of successful strategy execution. Practical implications: For long-term company leaders, entrepreneurs, or turnaround experts, strategic execution is no oxymoron, but a requirement for growth and, ultimately, their unique responsibility. Social implications: The paper identifies three major focus areas for strategy teams and company leadership: 1. customer centricity and strategy execution; 2. learning from survivors; and 3. rethinking capabilities and talent. Originality/value: As a professor of strategic management and as a consultant to organizations on strategy and marketing transformation, we have focused on the activities that are necessary for leaders to create effective strategy and to execute successfully. We have also been responsible for equipping the larger teams of strategy professionals (and future strategy professionals) who support these leaders with the approaches, the methods, and the tools necessary to plan effectively, to assess effectiveness, and to correct problems in strategy and execution. We bring that perspective to this viewpoint paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach: This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings: Digital transformation can revolutionize how a firm approaches tasks and processes, and can fundamentally alter business strategies. It does, however, require a careful hand when being implemented to support internal stakeholders. Originality/value: The briefing saves busy executives, strategists and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach: This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings: This paper identified the different dimensions and ways that manufacturing strategy can be integrated into the business strategy to produce a competitive advantage for the organization. Originality/value: The briefing saves busy executives, strategists and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach: This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings: This research paper concentrates on the role of competitive intelligence (CI) in strategy formulation, and aims to understand how to make CI practices the most effective. The results revealed that the studied companies were using CI on an operational level but neglected to deploy it optimally in their strategy formation. This is evidence that these companies are not utilizing their digital capability to its full potential. Organizations should form a dedicated CI business unit that has a clearly defined role, which can then be deployed as a critical resource when formulating business strategy. Original/value: The briefing saves busy executives, strategists and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach: This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings: This research paper concentrates on the relationships between environmental strategy, managers' environmental performance, and the use of environmental management control systems (MCSs). The results show that integrating regular MCSs and environmental MCSs was the move that had a significantly positive effect on environmental management performance, which was stimulated as a result of renewed motivation in managers to follow the environmental MCS. Consequently, environmental MCSs do prove to be crucial in yielding individual environmental managerial performance guided from an environmental strategy. Achieving this position requires managers to adopt integrated thinking to the benefit of the organization. Originality/value: The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies.Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the paper in context.Findings Five broad rhetorical repertoires were identified: “the motor of change”, “the business-oriented”, “the fatalist”, “the idealist” and “the CSR bookkeeper” rhetorics. The primacy of the first two repertoires led to the conclusion that CSR managers are more likely to foster continuity instead of change in current business practices.Practical implications The paper provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world’s leading organizations.Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies.Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context.Findings The Financial Times newspaper, founded in London in 1888, started life in competition with a rival financial daily, as well as its distinctive pink paper, sought to differentiate itself by being the friend of the “honest financier, the bona fide investor”. From such admirable roots do oak trees grow, and the newspaper is worth well over $1bn itself after a storied history as one of the cornerstones of business and economics. But aside from the share prices, inside gossip, and educated opinion on performance in the financial centers of the road, have you ever stopped to wonder why so many people still read it in an era of instant data and information sharing?Practical implications The paper provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world’s leading organizations.Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to illustrate how two media firms, Sky Plc and Pearson Plc, adapted, reconfigured, and transformed their businesses to meet the demands of an operating environment characterized by inexorable changes in digital technologies.Design/methodology/approach The over-arching vision, corporate strategies, and financial performance for both firms are examined over two business cycles.Findings These findings illustrate why firms need to create a portfolio business that takes advantage of the market opportunities created by innovative digital technologies, while off-setting the risks associated with digital disruption.Practical implications Business leaders should not dispense with the basic principles of good strategic business unit portfolio management in their attempts to take advantage of the market opportunities provided by a disruptive digital environment.Originality/value This paper provides a highly original insight into how two firms placed ambitious levels of growth at the heart of their corporate strategies to seize the market opportunities provided by an increasingly digital operating environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach: This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings: While robotic process automation has little strength alone, its combination with existing business resources makes this system a crucial stepping stone for firms to modernize, becoming a business strategy rather than a mere tool or resource. Originality/value: The briefing saves busy executives, strategists and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose This paper aims to identify the innovation strategies of the most successful organizations and demonstrate how business organizations can outperform their rivals.Design/methodology/approach This paper is based on a review of “How successful organizations drive innovation” by Ikeda and Marshall (2016).Findings Top performing organizations create organizational structures and functions to sustain innovation, create a culture of innovation and design processes to create innovation. To sustain innovation, organizations create a balance between innovation objectives and business objectives, adopt open innovation and form dedicated innovation teams. Organizations create a culture of innovation through a clear focus on innovation, agility and promoting an innovation culture. Finally, successful organizations design processes to create innovation, adopting strategies of generating new ideas from various sources, ensuring stable and secure innovation funding and deploying explicit innovation measurement.Practical implications The paper provides strategic insights and clear steps for all organizations to succeed in their innovation ventures.Originality/value Based on the review, this paper illustrates how existing and prospective companies gain a competitive edge in innovation through organizational structures, culture and processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach: This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the papers in context. Findings: Since it became part of the fabric of postgraduate education in the post-war period, the Masters of Business Education has gone through innumerable challenges and changes to become what it is today, which is one of the most popular – and expensive – ways for graduates to further their education. Seeing growth that the organizations who sponsor its students could only dream about, the garlanded qualification is offered around the world in hundreds of different guises, and those three letters find themselves after the names of the great and good of business and political life. Originality/value: The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies.Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context.Findings This research paper concentrates on ways of developing the revitalization of traditional markets by suggesting ways in which market traders in Bali can increase their revenue. A number of structural strategies deployed by market managers and government officials can also promote the cultural appeal of traditional markets as convenient and interesting shopping venues.Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives, strategists and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies.Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context.Findings This research paper concentrates on how M&As deliver increased profits and R&D intensity across varying post-acquisition time frames. The human mechanics beneath these achievements reveal that savvy knowledge creation and integration is crucial for extracting lasting value from an M&A.Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives, strategists and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to highlight successful strategies leaders can use to sustain and grow business during the economic business cycle variation.Design/methodology/approach – Opinions were based on 32 interviews conducted during December-2010 to November-2011 with CXO's, Business/Functional Heads from seven leading Indian IT/ITES public listed companies that partnered and delivered solutions to global corporations including Fortune-500 companies. One of the interview queries was to share experience, views and opinions on what works during recession and how should one tackle recovery.Findings – This paper offers 11 handy strategies for practitioners like executives, leaders and managers to manage the economic cycles better. These common findings from several cases are summarized supported with specific examples. They are: cost management need not go overboard; incessantly monitor, control and sustain; communication, culture and empathy helps; quality bolsters empathy; stay invested to be relevant; innovation needs to be disruptive; diversification leverages law of averages; people are imperative; customers need to be venerated; change and risk management is inevitable; coherence and prudence needed.Practical implications – The paper provides strategic insights and practical solutions that can protect organizations world-wide from failing during economic recessions.Social implications – The paper provides strategic insights and practical solutions that can have a broader social impact.Originality/value – The paper presents the arguments in a condensed and easy-to-digest format supported with live organization examples for easy comprehension. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach: This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings: By utilizing business groups, enterprises can more easily be established and legitimized, with a transfer of business knowledge and strategies to help appeal to a new market. Originality/value: The briefing saves busy executives, strategists and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach: This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings: The review is based on "In search of the frugal innovation strategy" by Santos et al. (2020), published in "Review of International Business and Strategy." This literature review paper concentrates on explaining that pursuing frugal innovation involves developing products and services, in a tightly resource-constrained environment, that are both affordable and sufficiently high quality to cater for low income consumers. Pursuing such a frugal innovation strategy is originated in emerging markets but can also translate across to developed markets and their value-seeking consumers. The study's results reveal that frugal innovation is most effective for executing innovation in products and processes. Original/value: The briefing saves busy executives, strategists and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose This paper aims to discuss key aspects of the longevity of business enterprises across the world. It explores the parameters that set apart a company which had survived for more than 1,400 years from most large companies which survive for a fraction of this time.Design/methodology/approach The paper integrates observations from two important research papers on the topic, and from the author’s own research.Findings Contrary to expectations, long-surviving firms are usually conservative about change, exploit their opportunities rather than explore more, diversify in relevant areas, and co-operate even with their competitors to live long.Research limitations/implications To those companies that live long, age becomes a valuable resource in itself. Consumers see a continuous track record of a firm as a proxy for good quality, and long history can provide managers institutional memory to leverage toward further sustainability. “Long history” not only can provide anecdotes and stories to employees that exemplify the tacit core values of the firm but also, quite counter-intuitively, could be useful in transforming cultures and traditions.Practical implications Longevity challenge encompasses both continuity and change, but the experience filtered from many long-lived firms across the globe provides companies with insights that could inspire many more to live long and prosper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies.Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context.Findings This study has provided useful findings about the strategic planning practices in the high-performing banks. The key findings comprise the fact that all three banks in this study have carried out the usual and main strategic planning activities presented in this study: the vital role of the CEO in strategic planning has been proven, and planning flexibility in the strategic planning process has been identified, among other related findings.Practical Implications The paper provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world’s leading organizations.Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach: This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings: The study finds that business strategy influences CSR effectiveness among Chinese manufacturing firms in Africa. Originality/value: The briefing saves busy executives, strategists, and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach: This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings: Through undertaking a dynamic and versatile solution with the resources available, it is possible for businesses to remain within budget, create an efficient supply, and continue to retain a competitive edge. Originality/value: The briefing saves busy executives, strategists and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach: This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings: Remaining competitive demands that firms adopt digitalized technologies to increase their capabilities. Adoption of e-commerce activities can significantly improve business performance and incorporation of artificial intelligence provides scope to further enhance the effect. Originality/value: The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose – This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach – This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings – Innovation is serendipity. That is the view of Tim Berners-Lee, the UK scientist whose invention of the World Wide Web takes pride of place on his CV. But whether breakthrough developments are more down to accident than intent is the question. What really matters is that they constitute a vital component of business success. Businesses organizations naturally seek to maximize the returns from their innovation activities. Prosperity and even survival often depend on being able to do so. However, it is rarely that simple. Numerous factors typically come into play, which are outside the firm’s control. Securing the desired levels of value and profit thus demands that sophisticated commercialization strategies are in place. Practical implications – The paper provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world’s leading organizations. Originality/value – The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose – This paper aims to present a broader industry-level competitive analysis of a contact lens market. Design/methodology/approach – Porter’s Five Forces model can be used for a broader and rigorous competitive analysis of a contact lens market to determine the competitive intensity and to form a well-rounded business strategy. Findings – The contact lens market is highly competitive and unattractive. Because growth has been stagnant, traditional competition has become more intense to steal share from each other. However, the competition in the market could not be defined narrowly between traditional competition but is broad with substitutes, and bargaining power of customers and distributors. A contact lens manufacturer has to look beyond the traditional competition to not only compete with traditional competitors within the industry but also with substitutes, and bargaining power of customers and distributors. Practical implications – This paper will benefit contact lens manufacturers/businesses in forming a well-rounded business strategy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose of this paper: Reviews the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach: This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings: A key strategic question for modern organizations centers around the notion of quality. For many years, quality in business usually meant high end products that had a certain look and feel to them where the amount of time, effort and skill needed to make the products was clearly evident, and was as a result reflected in the price. Think Rolls Royce cars, bespoke dining furniture or Swiss watches. Then, toward the end of the 20th Century, quality began to mean something else in business. It was a quality of systems inside a firm, so that they were able to compete with others not necessarily on quality of product, but on quality of process. By reducing errors and maximizing efficiency, firms could lead the market through their processes while ensuring customers were happy. Practical implications: Provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world's leading organizations. What is original/value of paper?: The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose of this paper: Reviews the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach: This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings: One of the interesting comparisons between startups and larger, more established businesses is the extent to which they spend time thinking about how they do business. For a startup, almost every second of every day is spent focusing on who is buying what, when and how; whether they can scale up or pivot if necessary to access another market. For bigger corporations, it isn't like they don't think about that as well, but the relative time they spend on it gets less and less the more they grow. This is not good or bad, it's just a natural progression when an organization increases in size. Practical implications: Provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world's leading organizations. What is original/value of paper?: The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies.Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context.Findings Global strategy and structure influence a firm’s global sourcing (GS) activities. International integration, internationalization, and external integration are proposed as the three dimensions of GS strategy. Design of GS structure incorporates organizational complexity, specialization and allocation of decision-making power. Another key aspect is control and coordination, which relies heavily on strong information and communications technology (ICT) capabilities. Relationships between the various elements shape strategy and structure and can impact GS performance.Practical implications The paper provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world’s leading organizations.Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Design: This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Purpose: This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Findings: DAOs have the possibility of revolutionizing business models and strategies across the global economy. Offering decentralized transparent and trustworthy ledgers and community oversight, they can work to unburden organizations of their too heavy hierarchy. Originality: The briefing saves busy executives, strategists and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach: This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings: Customer-relations management (CRM) plays a critical role in enhancing business performance. Organizations can attain this goal by adopting customer-centric business strategies whereby representatives exploit IT capabilities to share knowledge with clients. This enables identification of products and services best suited to meet their requirements. Originality/value: The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach: This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings: The research identifies differences in characteristics and business strategies employed by the various categories of nontraditional lenders. Originality/value: The briefing saves busy executives, strategists, and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies.Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context.Findings This research paper, using survey data from Iranian SMEs, concentrates on the relationship between cultural intelligence, tolerance for ambiguity, and corporate entrepreneurship to reveal how companies can increase the effectiveness of their strategic activity within their particular market.Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives, strategists and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies.Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context.Findings The study provides a critical reading of the current literature. Also, it proposes an integrated approach that sees planning as a continuous effort of learning and adapting to needs and opportunities that dynamically emerge from daily practices.Practical implications The paper provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world’s leading organizations.Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies.Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context.Findings While it may seem obvious that business strategies are able to help improve organizational performance, not all research in this field has been conclusive or even positive. Different models have yielded different results. Overall, however, it can be seen that an appropriately constructed business strategy that fits the specific needs of an organization, when adopted in the right way, can improve performance. The key, however, is the integration of aspects of employee behavior.Practical implications The paper provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world’s leading organizations.Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies.Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context.Findings The article “Born global firms’ growth and collaborative entry mode: the role of transnational entrepreneurs” by Yipeng (2017) provides a robust insight into how international entrepreneurs can shape and enhance the chances of success for born global firms when they explore international markets. Indeed, it is difficult to image how transnational entrepreneurs could be ignored when an organization sets its horizons beyond its national borders.Practical implications The paper provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world’s leading organizations.Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies.Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context.Findings The study sorts strategies to avoid liability of foreignness, including operational capabilities, entry modes, country of origin, legitimacy achievement, risk of politico-economic changes, and location selection. The study identified strategies for small- and medium-sized businesses entering emerging and transitional economies, as well as suggestions when entering sophisticated economies.Practical implications The paper provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world’s leading organizations.Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies.Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context.Findings The construction industry is arguably one of the most competitive, no more so than in South Africa. Understanding how organizational characteristics can mediate between competitive strategy and performance allows for the potential of improving how construction organizations form themselves, to gain a competitive advantage. Oynekunle et al. (2016) have looked at 72 large construction companies in South Africa, looking to identify what aspects have the greatest influence on performance, and how to make construction organizations more robust in such a turbulent market place. While much is dependent on individual approaches to management style and structuring in an organization, it is possible to identify ways in which any organization can boost performance and beat the competition.Practical implications The paper provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world’s leading organizations.Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose Home delivery strategic elements are the most crucial in e-retailing because they have heavy impacts on customer satisfaction and retention. More research is needed on this aspect, and the paper aims to investigate the important strategic elements and their prioritization for e-retailers’ home delivery efficacy.Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context.Findings The strategic elements identified by the study will ensure a satisfactory home delivery service to customers and enhance the e-retailers’ competitiveness in the marketplace.Practical implications The paper provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world’s leading organizations.Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies.Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context.Findings The findings demonstrate that structure followed differing strategies at General Motors, Ford and Chrysler and provide strong support for Chandler’s dictum. The findings demonstrate the difficulties of maintaining alignment of strategy and structure with changes in the external competitive environment and severe consequences of a misalignment of strategy and structure. The findings also demonstrate that structure alone is not sufficient to implement strategy effectively and that firms must judiciously utilize both internal firm and external market coordinating and control mechanisms to optimize performance.Practical implications The paper provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world’s leading organizations.Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]