Strategic Direction: Volume 33 Issue 3

Festivals as strategic tools: exploring the Dubai Lynx International Festival of Creativity

This paper aims to provide insight into the use of festivals as a strategy to position cities as creative hubs.

Controlling volatility but not growth: firms’ strategic orientations

While a lot is known about organizational growth, little is understood about how to manage volatility that comes along with growth. This paper, using existing research in this…

Crafting a winning innovation strategy

This paper aims to identify the innovation strategies of the most successful organizations and demonstrate how business organizations can outperform their rivals.

Improving the learning and developmental potential of SWOT analysis: introducing the LISA framework

This paper aims to provide a framework which can help to improve the learning and developmental potential of the popular SWOT analysis and make it more effective.

The strategic Chief Information Officer

This paper aims to discuss how Chief Information Officers (CIOs) can be the catalysts of change and play an influential role in pushing strategic transformations in their…

Increasing the flow of Guinness: the role of strategic investment decision-making in organizations

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

Improving health care: the benefits and pitfalls of lean processes in the NHS

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

Changing China: How SMEs are coping with an unplanned economy

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

Boosting brand equity of professional football clubs: the key role of retail branding

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

The competitive edge of construction: How organizational characteristics can moderate performance in South African construction

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

Doing the knowledge: Risky business and known unknowns

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

Redefining a firm’s boundary: Maximizing the impact of an operations strategy

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

Competitive horizons