This paper summarizes the wide and fragmented literature on strategic alliance formation. A framework is developed to organize the extant literature into antecedents, motives and objectives of alliance formation, and incorporates five relevant theories to explain a firm’s motives to form an alliance. The definition and delineation of the framework stages helps to categorize the literature and i...

Company strategy expresses a basic idea of how to reach company objectives. A whole range of models of strategic management are used in practice. The concept of strategic management should fulfill some basic requirements to make it applicable for both the typical, but also more specific company environment. The financial strategy plays an important role in corporate strategy. The paper develops...

From a system thinking perspective, competition/cooperation boundaries govern the evolution of a firm’s adaptive strategic behaviour and drive it towards its desired objectives. By analyzing different scenarios using a system dynamic simulation approach and considering market competitive dynamics, this study explores the volume flexibility measure considering both the operating environment and ...

Research on strategic alliances tends to focus on their performance and outcome rather than the process thateventually leads to a particular outcome i.e. alliance success or alliance failure. This study aims to identifyfactors that lead to an alliance breakup. Specifically, the Volvo-Renault alliance within the European automotiveindustry is investigated as a case study. A 'Strategi...

The selection of path in an urban combat setting determines the survival to a greater extent. In this paper we propose an algorithm that finds strategic paths inside a map with a set of enemies without using predetermined waypoints. The strategic path calculation is based upon the hit probability calculated for each enemy’s weapons and the risk vs. time preference and it is done at multiple lev...

This study analyses how strategic management is integrated with budgeting in the cities using the Balanced Scorecard approach, which provides a general framework to communicate and implement strategies. The approach is useful in accomplishing the strategic objectives, measures, and targets decided by city councils. It is important to align the strategic plans of various units at the different o...

Conceptual models of different aspects of an organization— business objectives, processes, rules, policies and objects—have been used for organizational design, analysis, planning, and knowledge management. Such models have also served as starting points for designing information systems and conducting business intelligence activities. This paper proposes the Tactical Business Intelligence Mode...