Survival in today’s dynamic environment requires organizations to have superior performance compared to competitors. In order to achieve this superior performance, this study aimed to examine the effect of both strategic orientation and innovation on organizational performance. It also examined whether innovation acted as a mediator between strategic orientation and organizational performance. ...

Previous research has proposed different types for and contingency factors affecting information technology governance. Yet, in spite of this valuable work, it is still unclear through what mechanisms IT governance affects organizational performance. We make a detailed argument for the mediation of strategic alignment in this process. Strategic alignment remains a top priority for business and ...

This study focuses on the leadership structure at the very top of a firm. Specifically, it examines how the presence of a COO/president, who is separate from the CEO, affects strategic change and CEO dismissal. With longitudinal data on the tenures of 207 CEOs, results suggest that the presence of a separate COO/president increases the magnitude of strategic change under conditions of low firm ...

Organizations continue to work on defining and developing better strategic Internet systems. The use of the Internet should not, however, adversely affect their existing business processes but rather incorporate and support them. Therefore, developing a strategic Internet system should support their strategic profile while providing high performance from its use. We took a new approach to Inter...

This study investigates the impact of a strategic role for human resource management (HRM) on organizational fi nancial performance. Survey data from 118 fi nancial and manufacturing organizations in Jordan is analyzed to investigate a moderated mediated pathway between a strategic role for HRM and organizational fi nancial performance. The fi rst fi nding, that highperformance human resource p...

This article extends the debate regarding the relationship between strategic planning and performance. It addresses criticism of previous empirical studies that have largely investigated direct and bi-variate relationships, producing equivocal results. The current study investigates the mediating effects of four types of flexibility on the strategic planning and performance relationship. Flexib...

today it is recognized and objectivity of the human resources and the importance of human resources and the work of senior management organization. human resources as a strategic resource and is the most important organizational element and from other sources within the organization, the only resource that acts as the decision-making and implementation.adopting strategic decisions and strategy ...

Several researchers consider the Information Technology (IT) and its flexibility as an enabler to achieve the desired competitive advantages, considered as a strategic weapon, and as a crucial support to operational and strategic business processes. Since companies that have achieved Information Technology (IT)-business strategic can build a strategic competitive advantage that will provide the...

Purpose As family and nonfamily businesses differ in how they do business, the focus of this manuscript is on understanding strategy-level models can be misinterpreted if involvement not considered. Thus, manuscript, extent to which strategic orientations (market orientation technology orientation, reflect approach), performance metric (financial-based, optimization-based market-based, strategy...