This study examines the interrelationships between firm’s core competence, human resource practices and corporate strategy. Through the qualitative interview with four short-term training institutions in Taiwan, the results of this show that these firms indeed systematically arrange their human resource practices to support corporate strategy and foster needed core competence. When a company se...

Article history: Received 16 October 2014 Received in revised form 6 April 2015 Accepted 8 April 2015 Available online 22 April 2015 The primary purpose of this paper is to review the historical development of the application of IT, its relationships with corporate strategy, and its influence on corporate performance. The secondary purposes are to empirically investigate the above relationships...

This paper examines corporate identity on three different levels: regional; national and industrial. It then empirically integrates corporate identity with strategy within ASEAN corporations. Multi-leveled analyses are drawn from statistical results obtained from an already established database of 109 ASEAN public-listed companies. It seeks to relate corporate identity to the anatomy of strateg...

In this paper, we report on an experiment in which we explore the feasibility of applying a semantic tagger for analysing the textual contents of Chinese corporate reports, focusing on the contents of corporate strategy. In recent years, Natural Language Processing (NLP) research has been giving increasing attention to automatic analysis of the textual contents of corporate reports using NLP ap...

This study examines how the corporate link between a foreign subsidiary and its corporate members (parent and peer subsidiaries) is influenced by the subsidiary’s competitive strategy in a specific host country. The mainstream logic, especially that of Michael Porter, suggests that corporate link should be stronger when a multinational enterprise (MNE) focuses on cost leadership than on product...

This chapter presents an introvert perspective of strategy formation, through the presentation of the resourcebased view (RBV) concept. We offer a review of a) relevant fundamentals of the strategic management field (the definition of strategy, resources and capabilities), and b) a strategy framework, which incorporates the conceptual knowledge of the RBV intertwined with some well-known tools ...