MILES AND SNOW TYPOLOGY In their 1978 book Organization Strategy‚ Structure‚ and Process‚ Raymond E. Miles and Charles C. Snow argued that different company strategies arise from the way companies decide to address three fundamental problems: entrepreneurial‚ engineering (or operational)‚ and administrative problems. The entrepreneurial problem is how a company should manage its market share. The engineering problem involves how a company should implement its solution to the entrepreneurial problem
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In 1978‚ Raymond Miles and Charles Snow developed their strategic choice typology and helped in the launch of the business strategy. The American academics suggested that business level strategies generally fall into one of four categories: prospector‚ defender‚ analyzer‚ and reactor. The two scholars also examined how organisations adapt over time to changes in their environment. They defined their strategy “as a consistent pattern of decision making‚ and regarded the organisation’s behaviour as
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The Miles and Snow Typology Excerpted from Barney‚ J.B. & Griffin‚ R.G. "The management of organizations: Strategy‚ structure‚ behavior." Houghton Mifflin‚ 1992. Prospector Raymond Miles and Charles Snow suggest that business level strategies generally fall into one of four categories: prospector‚ defender‚ analyzer‚ and reactor. An organization that follows a prospector strategy is a highly innovative firm that is constantly seeking out new markets and new opportunities and is oriented
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1. The subject of comparative typology and its aims. Comparative typology‚ as the notion itself reveals‚ represents a linguistic subject of typology based on the method of comparison. Like typology proper Comparative typology also aims at establishing the most general structural types of languages on their dominant or common phonetically‚ morphological‚ lexical and syntactical features. Comparative typology may equally treat dominant or common features only‚ as well as divergent features only
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Holmes and DeBurger (1988) typologies of serial murder and critically evaluate with reference to Derrick Todd Lee (Baton Rouge Killer) who raped‚ violently beaten and murdered 7 women. The organised and dis-organised typology is one of the most widely cited classifications of violent serial killers. This was introduced by the FBI upon examination of 36 sexual sadistic serial killers‚ based on the examination of the crime scene‚ victims and the forensic evidence. Whilst typologies may be used to categorise
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Typology of School Shootings Definition and typology: Studies of school shootings have been conducted in a variety of disciplines‚ including sociology‚ psychology‚ and media studies. However‚ to date there is no unified body of knowledge about such events. In an effort to synthesize past studies‚ and to orient future studies in school shootings‚ this article offers a typology for understanding the varieties of school shooting incidents‚ including rampages‚ mass murders‚ terrorist attacks
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A TYPOLOGY OF HEALTH AND PROBLEMS IN FAMILY HEALTH PRACTICE Criteria Observed Not Observed Remarks First Level Assessment I. Presence of Health Threats – conditions those are conducive to disease‚ accident of failure to realize one’s health potential. Examples of these are the following: A. Family history of hereditary condition disease‚ e.g.‚ diabetes B. Threat of cross infection from a communicable disease care C. Family size beyond what family resources can adequately provide
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THE USE OF TYPOLOGIES IN TOURISM PLANNING: PROBLEMS AND CONFLICTS 46th Congress of the European Regional Science Association (ERSA) Enlargement‚ Southern Europe and the Mediterranean. August 30th-September 2006 University of Thessaly-Department of Planning and Regional Development H. COCCOSSIS1 M. E. CONSTANTOGLOU 2 H. Coccossis‚ Prof.‚ University of Thessaly ‚ Dept. of Planning and Regional Development‚ hkok@prd.uth.gr 2 M.E. Constantoglou‚ PhD‚ Department of Cultural Technology and Communication
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Chapter 4: Linguistic Typology Chapter 4 Linguistic typology 4.1 Introduction Simply speaking‚ the study of universals is concerned with what human languages have in common‚ while the study of typology deals with ways in which languages differ from each other. This contrast‚ however‚ is not sharp. When languages differ from each other‚ the variation is not random‚ but subject to limitations. Linguistic typology is not only concerned with variation‚ but also with the limitations on the degree
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Victim Typologies Criminology and Victimology Mary Caplette CJ266 2/20/2012 There are five types of victim typologies that Selin & Wolfgang offer. The list consists of Primary Victimization‚ Secondary Victimization‚ Tertiary Victimization‚ Mutual Victimization‚ and No Victimization. Below I will describe each in a detailed manner. I would like to start with Primary Victimization. That is described as a one person target. What that refers to is that it is personalized or an
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