Strategic Direction: Volume 27 Issue 11

Nerves of steel in glocal challenge: ArcelorMittal's push and pull strategy

This article aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies.

Philips links leadership development and innovation: Collaborative partnership succeeds at talent management and business strategy

This article aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies.

RBS reshapes its long‐term future: Leadership development at the heart of the Group's long term recovery plan

This article aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies.

Leading from the Front Lines: Microsoft's partnership initiative offers spin‐offs with benefits that go beyond the organization's bottom line

This article aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies.

Specialists move up to higher ground: ING's high impact performance program pays dividends

This article aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies.

Environmental scanning in a public institution: Intelligent facilities management can help deliver the services of the future

This article aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies.

A cost‐effective way to innovate: Products, portfolios and principles

This article aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies.

Doing well by doing good: Strategic development of socially responsible behavior can build reputation, strengthen knowledge management and drive innovation

This article aims to describe how one company has used an ethical approach to strengthen a competitive position based on knowledge management and technological innovation.

Interview with Rhymer Rigby, author of 28 Business Thinkers Who Changed the World

The purpose of this article is to provide an interview with Rhymer Rigby, UK based journalist and author of 28 Business Thinkers Who Changed the World.

Editorial

Corporate law outlook

Strategic culture and contextual factors as determinants of anomie in publicly-traded and privately-held firms

Asia’s integration challenge (how integrated marketing and advertising channel planning in Asian countries faces region-specific challenges)

No tlc for the plc (interview with Peter Griffith, chief executive officer of the Principality Building Society, and incoming chairman of the Building Societies Association)

Don’t let your customers fade from view (the April 2011 Data Tracker questionnaire survey to determine UK consumer attitudes towards the way that retailers handle their personal data)

A less gilded future (law firms)

Diary

Competitive horizon

The influence of top management team’s corporate governance orientation on strategic renewal trajectories: a longitudinal analysis of Royal Dutch Shell plc, 1907-2004

1100100 and counting (IBM)

Too posh to push direct? (how luxury brands are successfully using direct marketing)

Micro strategies for success (how marketers currently understand the importance of cultivating brand participation)

Unlocking new value in global business services

Beyond Strategy: The Leader’s Role in Successful Implementation