Strategic Direction: Volume 28 Issue 8

Today's contradictory challenges in achieving profitable growth: strategy guidance for “re‐imagining”

The aim of this viewpoint is to highlight the key steps in re‐imagining a business, as articulated by senior executives; to present the nature of the challenges and a summary of…

Sustainability for future growth: A key element of successful business strategies

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

Establishing a new business unit at TECHFIRM: Strategy as social practice

The aim is to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies.

Learning through experience: Building leader awareness of sustainability

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

Relative success: Improving innovation in the family business

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

Marriage made in the heavens: United, Continental and branding dilemmas: Why in mergers two might not be better than one

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

Big data needn't be a big headache: How to tackle mind‐blowing amounts of information

The aim is to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies.

Ethics, emotions and the need to “do the right thing”: Are the idealists and the relativists poles apart?

The aim is to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies.

Women at the top seek tools to finish the job: Workplace moves towards equality have been remarkable – but there's still much to achieve

The aim is to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies.

The value – and changing face – of business intelligence: an interview with David Abramson, Director of Product Management at LogiXML

The purpose of this article is to provide an interview with the Director of Product Management at LogiXML.

Competitive horizon

Diary

Bringing ICT to the strategy table

International strategy and performance – clustering strategic types of SMEs

When budgeting backfires: how self-imposed price restraints can increase spending

Europe’s foxiest banker takes on the world (Emilio Botin, Santander)

Using firm-level leverage as an investment strategy

Innovation-driven leadership

Entrepreneurs: the world needs you

Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters

Alignment of strategy and structure in international firms: an empirical examination

A multi-criteria approach for managing inter-enterprise collaborative relationships

Is Pinterest the next Facebook?

Can retail investors exploit stock market anomalies?

A passage to India: a dual case study of activities, processes and resources in offshore outsourcing of advanced services

What makes online content viral?

Degree of innovativeness and new product performance

Big and little planning (planning of both local and global marketing and advertising strategies)