1. In international development, capacity is seen as “the ability of people, organizations and society as a whole to manage their affairs successfully”, leading to attainment of the Millennium Development Goals and FAO’s three Global Goals in line with national development plans. Capacity Development (CD) is the “process whereby people, organizations and society as a whole unleash, strengthen, ...

T H I S PAPER PROVIDES A BRIEF summary of what w e a t the Ashridge Strategic Management Centre believe we have learned about corporate strategy over the last ten years. It lays out the basis for our ideas about corporate parenting and the implications of parenting theory for management decisions. It is structured around nine propositions, each of which attempts to convey both what we have lear...

This article engages with a fundamental, but under-theorized, fact: that modern corporate restructuring generally, and UK US specifically, are frequently processes in which only selected creditors impaired by the plan, treat of equal rank unevenly. selectivity stands contrast to foundational idea insolvency as collective process, individual creditors’ rights enforcement suspended for good gener...

 In this paper, we dismiss the traditional contingency argument that corporate staff should have minimal involvement with the decisions that its divisions make, because predictability, which underlies this contingency logic, is erroneous for most large corporations at this time. We offer an alternative theory of corporate involvement for the M-form: under unpredictable environments grea...

Purpose Despite the importance and prevalence of corporate political activities in modern organizations, there remains limited insight on potential relationship between contributions companies’ risk-taking activities. This study aims to examine monetary firms context unstable economic environments. Design/methodology/approach The authors use a two-step system GMM estimation investigate subject ...

Strategic Alignment of the corporate strategy and the project management system Alignment of strategic and project management systems is essential for economic survival and growth. The corporate vision has to include the needs of customers and stakeholders while promoting internal learning and innovation. An effective strategic management system offers many benefits: o Development of a learning...

(" Biform Games "). Appendix C uses the efficiency results (Propositions 5.1 and 5.2) in the main text to frame some of the ideas in the corporate-strategy literature. Appendix D contains further comments on the efficiency results. Corporate (multibusiness) strategy is the study of when 'the whole is worth more than the sum of the parts.' Alternatively put, corporate strategy is about the oppor...

Built on the knowledge management and corporate growth literatures, this paper examined the antecedents of knowledge management strategy and its consequences. Grounded in the resourcebased view and corporate growth theory, this study found that a firm’s knowledge management strategy and strategic performance relate to long term corporate growth. Learning orientation has also been found relates ...