Strategic Direction: Volume 26 Issue 3

Potential benefits of engaging primary stakeholders in developing a vision

The purpose of this article was to outline some of the potential benefits of engaging primary stakeholders in the process of developing or revising an organization's vision.

Downturn not the time to deter innovators: Slashing R&D budgets might be suicidal

Reviews the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies.

Sincere gestures of community support: Prize‐winning CSR in Thailand

Reviews a case study of four Thai companies who have all won awards for CSR activity.

Ethics and sustainability in today's business environments: Creating new ways of doing business and educating business leaders

Reviews the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies

Oil firm's strategy strikes “black gold”: “Middle‐way” realignment holds the answer

Reviews the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies.

The online shop window: How to make web sites work

This paper presents an augmented subjective risk management process that can partially solve the problem of inconsistent results in qualitative risk management. Note that…

Does my brand look big in this?: Dove challenges prevailing concepts of beauty

Reviews the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies.

Developing ideas via the experiential route: Wider skills sets also hold the key

Reviews the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies.

Interview with Chris Goodwin

The purpose of this paper is to present and an interview with Chris Goodwin, Managing Director of the Results Driven Group.

The intelligence alchemy and the twenty-first century organization

The role of competence in initiating the transition from products to service

Ontologies for crisis contagion management in financial institutions

Consumer returns: a basic overview of the legal background

The US semiconductor industry in the 1990s: strategies and outcomes

Rethinking Project Management – An Organisational Perspective

Structure, people and process challenges of multichannel marketing: insights from marketers

Alignment between business environment characteristics, competitive priorities, supply chain structures, and firm business performance

Diary

Overcoming cultural barriers for innovation and knowledge sharing

Competitive horizon

Differentiating factors of venture growth: from statics to dynamics

Exploring management control in radical innovation projects