Strategic leadership has been proposed as critical to organizational effectiveness. As African economies transition from socialist to open market states, strategic leadership will be instrumental to the effectiveness of African organizations. Unfortunately, few studies of strategic leadership in African organizations exist. To fill this gap, a model of strategic leadership is proposed here. Str...

Many of the pure internet-based businesses that proliferated over the past 5 years have encountered serious problems as their lofty valuations have plunged. Industry observers have attributed this phenomenon to a variety of factors, generally framed in terms of poor conceptualization or implementation of the ‘business model’. This study explores an often-used concept in strategic management cal...

Despite the growing importance of information technology (IT) enabled offshore sourcing, there is relatively little academic research to understand the phenomenon. In this study, conceptualizing offshore sourcing as a strategic decision, and using the path dependency theory, we present a strategic sourcing model. Next, using secondary data, we empirically test the proposed model to study the ro...

Aalto University, P.O. Box 11000, FI-00076 Aalto www.aalto.fi Author Matti Jaakkola Name of the doctoral dissertation Strategic Orientations, Market-based Capabilities and Business Performance: The Moderating Effect of Business Context Publisher Aalto University School of Economics Unit Department of Marketing Series Aalto University publication series DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS 79/2012 Field of re...

Effective innovative activity of enterprises with the dynamic economic development is possible under the conditions of timely implementation of innovative projects that satisfy and meet the requirements of the external and internal environment and contribute to building up their own potential with the orientation of the enterprise activity on the long-term prospect of development. This contribu...

The development of literature on entrepreneurship has continued for several decades. Starting from the mainstream innovation, strategic changes, until intersecting with management. Several studies have discussed relationship between and management so that companies can improve their entrepreneurial orientation. But, there is still no research specifically discusses how combines philosophy to cr...

Purpose This study aims to examine the direct influence of strategic corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices on business value creation while accounting for moderating and mediating roles orientation. Design/methodology/approach It used data from 118 CSR-intensive multinational subsidiaries operating in five major different industries Ghana applied hierarchical regression bootstrapping ...