It is widely agreed that the rate of change in many industries is faster than ever before. Strategic decisions are, in addition to top management plans, made on a day-to-day basis closer to the firms markets. In order for the decisions made by individual employees to be strategically coherent it is necessary that the employees develop a shared understanding of some of the basic assumptions and ...

Firms developing new products must often make a trade-o¤ between production costs and product quality: higher quality products are more valued by consumers, but also more costly to manufacture. We analyze this trade-o¤ in the context of demand uncertainty and strategic consumer behavior. Before the release of a product to a heterogeneous market of unknown size, a …rm must choose product quality...

We address the simultaneous determination of pricing and capacity investment strategies in a multi-period setting under demand uncertainty. In our model a monopolistic firm makes three decisions: capacity investment (or disinvestment), production (inventory), and price, all of which can be specified dynamically as a function of the state of the system. We analyze the optimal joint strategy and ...

Brand image is defined and measured as a “set of associations which a brand has acquired for an individual” (Joyce, 1963, p. 45) and as “brand associations in consumer memory” (Keller, 1993). Strategic marketing decisions, such as positioning and segmentation, are typically based on market information obtained through consumer surveys. Brand-based industries use key market information from bran...

the complexity and development of business decision making is in need of strategic management. the management of the internal affairs of a company is only a part of managers function. a through and appropriate approach to the dynamics of external environment of organization such as the competitors, suppliers, the ever decreasing and scarce resources, the government sponsored rules and regulatio...

hr strategy is the pattern of hr-related decisions. that is, the gestalt of negotiated people related policies and practices in use indeed the formulation and enactment of an hr strategy designed to link hr policies and practices with the strategic goals and objective of the firm. the purpose of this research is human resources strategy formulation for prk company. integrative model (bamberger ...

With the fastidiously ever-increasing complexity of systems, the relentless, massive customisation of products and the mushrooming accumulation of legal documents (standards, policies and laws), we can observe a significant increase in requirements. We consider the tremendous volume of requirements as big data with which companies struggle to make strategic decisions early on. This paper propos...

Two powerful, highly effective strategic tools that retailers possess involve pricing and store format decisions. From the several strategic choices vailable for each decision, a retailer can choose any combination. We focus on two gaps in the literature. First, both decisions are specific to the onsumers to whom the stores cater and the environments within which they operate, yet little academ...

strategic control can provide performance support from decision and strategy. now, appropriate and role of operations research (or) for strategic support is proved and model is useful tool for fulfill this role. new field of performance and strategy linkage have suitable capacity for this type of modeling. this paper is tried with using case study research method in the fields of performance me...

The interplay of social and strategic motivations in human interactions is a largely unexplored topic in collective social phenomena. Whether individuals' decisions are taken in a purely strategic basis or due to social pressure without a rational background crucially influences the model outcome. Here we study a networked Prisoner's Dilemma in which decisions are made either based on the repli...