Strategic and indicative planning in small business

Strategic Information Planning: Alignment of IT Planning with Business Planning

The lives of the human beings has affected by the information technology in their daytoday lives, because of its progression. The technology has changed vastly, when time passes and so have the chances. The demand of increase in IT/IS has made the top management of the more and more complex and difficult. Strategic information systems planning (SISP) is a real way of emerging and upholding the ...

Strategic Entrepreneurial Orientation and Small Business Growth

This chapter aims to define a coherent theoretical framework enabling a broader understanding of the strategic entrepreneurial orientation (SEO) and to evaluate their effects on small firm growth. A sample made up of 211 small Portuguese firms from various different sectors of activity was surveyed by questionnaire. The results demonstrate how the life-cycle of companies, their resources, capac...

Small Business Alliances: Internet-enabled Strategic Advantage

The essential difference between small businesses and large corporations is found in their corporate structure. Similarly, the inter-organizational systems (IOSs) formed between small businesses to support strategic alliances and community-like networks have different requirements and functions from those formed between large corporations. This paper discusses the differences between the IOSs c...

Bridging accounting and Business Strategic Planning Using Conceptual Graphs

This paper reveals the existence of a gateway between the two seemingly disparate subjects of accounting and strategic planning. This is achieved by examining two important existing methodologies, events accounting and cognitive mapping, and restating them both in conceptual graphs. Also, for the bridge to be viable the framework must be usable by accountants and strategic planners. To achieve ...

Strategic Planning in a Fast Changing Business Environment