User contributions for Sga21

22 April 2014

• 19:4119:41, 22 April 2014 diff hist +247‎ N Output Controls ‎ Created page with "{{Learning concept |Description=Mechanisms in a strategic control and reward system that seek to guide employee behavior by defining expected results (outputs), but leave the ..." current
• 19:3919:39, 22 April 2014 diff hist +266‎ N Input Controls ‎ Created page with "{{Learning concept |Description=Mechanisms in a strategic control and reward system that seek to define and direct employee behavior through a set of explicit and codified rul..." current
• 19:3719:37, 22 April 2014 diff hist +203‎ N Strategic Control adn reward systems ‎ Created page with "{{Learning concept |Description=A key building block of organizational design; internal governance mechanisms put in place to align the incentives of principals (shareholders..." current
• 19:3619:36, 22 April 2014 diff hist +19‎ Organizational Design: Structure culture and control ‎No edit summary
• 19:3519:35, 22 April 2014 diff hist +169‎ N Founder Imprinting ‎ Created page with "{{Learning concept |Description=A process by which the founder defines and shapes an organization's culture, which can persist for decades after his or her departure. }}" current
• 19:3519:35, 22 April 2014 diff hist +152‎ N Organizational Culture ‎ Created page with "{{Learning concept |Description=The collectively shared values and norms of an organization's members; a key building block of organizational design. }}" current
• 19:3419:34, 22 April 2014 diff hist +184‎ N Multi divisional Structure ‎ Created page with "{{Learning concept |Description=Organizational structure that consists of several distinct strategic business units ( SBUs) each with its own profit-and-loss (P & L) responsib..." current
• 19:3219:32, 22 April 2014 diff hist +187‎ N Mechanistic organization ‎ Created page with "{{Learning concept |Description=Organizational form characterized by a high degree of specialization and formalization, and a tall hierarchy that relies on centralized decisio..." current
• 19:3119:31, 22 April 2014 diff hist +173‎ N Hierarchy ‎ Created page with "{{Learning concept |Description=An element of organizational structure that determines the formal, position-based reporting lines and thus stipulates who reports to whom. }}" current
• 19:3019:30, 22 April 2014 diff hist +175‎ N Specialization ‎ Created page with "{{Learning concept |Description=An element of organizational structure that describes the degree to which a task is divided into separate jobs ( I.E, the division of labor) }}" current
• 19:2919:29, 22 April 2014 diff hist +223‎ N Strategy Implementation ‎ Created page with "{{Learning concept |Description=The part of the strategic management process that concerns the organization, coordination, and integration of how work gets done. It is key to ..." current
• 19:2819:28, 22 April 2014 diff hist +407‎ N Organizational Design: Structure culture and control ‎ Created page with "{{Topic |Learning Concepts=Strategy Implementation, Organizational Design, Organizational structure, Specialization, formalization, Centralization, Hierarchy, Span of Control,..."
• 19:0419:04, 22 April 2014 diff hist +54‎ BUSS249 - Strategic Management ‎No edit summary
• 19:0319:03, 22 April 2014 diff hist +99‎ N Knowledge Spillover ‎ Created page with "{{Learning concept |Description=A type of positive externality that is regionally constrained. }}" current
• 19:0219:02, 22 April 2014 diff hist +193‎ N Regional Cluster ‎ Created page with "{{Learning concept |Description=A group of interconnected companies and institutions in a specific industry, located near each other geographically and also linked by common c..." current
• 19:0019:00, 22 April 2014 diff hist +75‎ N National competitive advantage ‎ Created page with "{{Learning concept |Description=World leadership in specific industries. }}" current
• 19:0019:00, 22 April 2014 diff hist +201‎ N Death-of-distance hypothesis ‎ Created page with "{{Learning concept |Description=Assumption that geographic location alone should not lead to firm-level competitive advantage because firms are now, more than ever, able to ..." current
• 18:5918:59, 22 April 2014 diff hist +254‎ N Transnational strategy ‎ Created page with "{{Learning concept |Description=Strategy that attempts to combine the benefits of a localization strategy ( high local-responsiveness) with those of a global-standardization ..." current
• 18:5318:53, 22 April 2014 diff hist +227‎ N Global Standardization strategy ‎ Created page with "{{Learning concept |Description=Strategy attempting to reap significant economies of scale and location economies by pursuing a global division of labor based on wherever best..." current
• 18:5218:52, 22 April 2014 diff hist +348‎ N Localization strategy ‎ Created page with "{{Learning concept |Description=Strategy pursued by MNEs that attempts to maximize local responsiveness, with the intent that local consumers will perceive them to be domesti..." current
• 18:4918:49, 22 April 2014 diff hist +353‎ N Integration-responsiveness framework ‎ Created page with "{{Learning concept |Description=Strategy framework that juxtaposes the pressures an MNE faces for cost reductions and local responsiveness to derive four different strategies ..." current
• 18:4718:47, 22 April 2014 diff hist +180‎ N Local Responsiveness ‎ Created page with "{{Learning concept |Description=The need to tailor product and service offerings to fit local consumer preferences and host-country requirements; generally entails higher cost..." current
• 18:4618:46, 22 April 2014 diff hist +161‎ N Globalization hypothesis ‎ Created page with "{{Learning concept |Description=Assumption that consumer needs and preferences throughout the world are converging and thus becoming increasingly homogeneous. }}" current
• 18:4518:45, 22 April 2014 diff hist +141‎ N Cultural Distance ‎ Created page with "{{Learning concept |Description=Cultural disparity between an internationally expanding firm's home country and its targeted host country. }}" current
• 18:4418:44, 22 April 2014 diff hist +140‎ N Uncertainty-avoidance dimension ‎ Created page with "{{Learning concept |Description=Dimension of culture that focuses on societal differences in tolerance toward ambiguity and uncertainty. }}" current
• 18:4318:43, 22 April 2014 diff hist +169‎ N Masculinity- femininity Dimension ‎ Created page with "{{Learning concept |Description=Dimension of culture that focuses on the relationship between genders and its relation to an individual's role at work and in society. }}" current
• 18:4318:43, 22 April 2014 diff hist +197‎ N Individualism Dimension ‎ Created page with "{{Learning concept |Description=Dimension of culture that focuses on the relationship between individuals in a society, particularly the relationship between individual and c..." current
• 18:4218:42, 22 April 2014 diff hist +253‎ N Powder- distance dimension ‎ Created page with "{{Learning concept |Description=Dimension of culture that focuses on how a society deals with inequality among people in terms of physical and intellectual capabilities, and..." current
• 18:4018:40, 22 April 2014 diff hist +164‎ N Liability of forgiveness ‎ Created page with "{{Learning concept |Description=Benefits from locating value- chain activities in the world's optimal geographies for a specific activity, wherever that may be. }}"
• 18:3918:39, 22 April 2014 diff hist +175‎ N Location economies ‎ Created page with "{{Learning concept |Description=A firm's Strategy to gain and sustain a competitive advantage when competing against other foreign and domestic companies around the world. }}"
• 18:3818:38, 22 April 2014 diff hist +89‎ N Foreign Direct investment (FDI) ‎ Created page with "{{Learning concept |Description=A firm's investments in value-chain activities abroad. }}" current
• 18:2918:29, 22 April 2014 diff hist +182‎ N Multinational Enterprise (MNE) ‎ Created page with "{{Learning concept |Description=A company that deploys resources and capabilities in the procurement, production, and distribution of goods and services in at least two countr..." current
• 18:2818:28, 22 April 2014 diff hist +256‎ N Globalization ‎ Created page with "{{Learning concept |Description=Process of closer integration and exchange between different countries and peoples worldwide, made possible by falling trade and investment bar..." current
• 18:1918:19, 22 April 2014 diff hist +621‎ N Global strategy: Competing Around the World ‎ Created page with "{{Topic |Learning Concepts=Globalization, Multinational Enterprise (MNE), Foreign Direct investment (FDI), Global Strategy, Location economies, Liability of forgiveness, Nati..." current
• 18:1418:14, 22 April 2014 diff hist +45‎ BUSS249 - Strategic Management ‎No edit summary
• 18:1218:12, 22 April 2014 diff hist +121‎ N Small World Phenomenon ‎ Created page with "{{Learning concept |Description=Situation in which a network exhibit local clusters, each with high degree centrality. }}" current
• 18:1118:11, 22 April 2014 diff hist +257‎ N Structural Holes ‎ Created page with "{{Learning concept |Description=Spaces where two organizations are connected to the same organization, but are not connected to one another. Firms that bridge structural hole..." current
• 18:1018:10, 22 April 2014 diff hist +180‎ N Degree centrality ‎ Created page with "{{Learning concept |Description=The number of direct ties a firm has in a network, out of the possible direct ties; the more direct ties, the more centrally located the firm i..." current
• 18:0918:09, 22 April 2014 diff hist +150‎ N Strategic network ‎ Created page with "{{Learning concept |Description=A social structure composed of multiple organizations (network nodes) and the links among the nodes (network ties). }}" current
• 18:0818:08, 22 April 2014 diff hist +243‎ N Alliance management capability ‎ Created page with "{{Learning concept |Description=A firm's ability to effectively manage three alliance-related tasks concurrently: (1) partner selection and alliance formation, (2) alliance d..." current
• 18:0618:06, 22 April 2014 diff hist +160‎ N Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) ‎ Created page with "{{Learning concept |Description=Equity investments by established firms in entrepreneurial ventures; CVC falls under that broader rubric of equity alliances. }}" current
• 18:0418:04, 22 April 2014 diff hist +179‎ N Tacit Knowledge ‎ Created page with "{{Learning concept |Description=Knowledge that cannot be codified; concerns knowing how to do a certain task and can be acquired only through active participation in that task..." current
• 18:0318:03, 22 April 2014 diff hist +123‎ N Equity alliance ‎ Created page with "{{Learning concept |Description=Partnership in which at least one partner takes partial ownership in the other partner. }}" current
• 18:0318:03, 22 April 2014 diff hist +162‎ N Explicit knowledge ‎ Created page with "{{Learning concept |Description=Knowledge that can be codified ( E.g., information, facts, instructions, recipes); concerns knowing about a process or product. }}" current
• 18:0218:02, 22 April 2014 diff hist +178‎ N Non Equity Alliance ‎ Created page with "{{Learning concept |Description=Partnership based on contracts between firms. The most frequent forms are supply agreements, distribution agreements, and licensing agreements. }}" current
• 18:0018:00, 22 April 2014 diff hist +309‎ N Learning Races ‎ Created page with "{{Learning concept |Description=Situations in which both partners in a strategic alliance are motivated to form an alliance for learning, but the rate at which the firms learn..." current
• 17:5817:58, 22 April 2014 diff hist +194‎ N Relational View of competitive advantage ‎ Created page with "{{Learning concept |Description=Strategic management framework that proposes that critical resources and capabilities frequently are embedded in strategic alliances that span ..." current
• 17:5717:57, 22 April 2014 diff hist +169‎ N Managerial hubris ‎ Created page with "{{Learning concept |Description=A form of self-delusion, in which managers convince themselves of their superior skills in the face of clear evidence to the contrary. }}" current
• 17:5417:54, 22 April 2014 diff hist +124‎ N Horizontal Integration ‎ Created page with "{{Learning concept |Description=The process of acquiring and merging with competitors, leading to industry consolidation. }}" current
• 17:5317:53, 22 April 2014 diff hist +104‎ N Hostile Takeover ‎ Created page with "{{Learning concept |Description=Acquisition in which the target company does not wish to be acquired. }}" current