Strategic Management and Michael Porter: a postmodern reading by: Toby Harfield It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. Hitchhikers’s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams Introduction This article is located within a postmodern sensibility of exploration and play (Bauman 1992; Rorty 1989). I do not attempt to deconstruct (Linstead 1995; Cooper 1989; Derrida 1978)‚ but merely to explore the possiblilty of a radical new reading of Michael E Porter. Is Porter
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References: Wheelwright and Christensen‚C.M.(2004); Burgelman‚R.A. Strategic Management of Technology ‚ 4th Edition Mintzberg‚ H (2000)‚ the Rise and fall of Strategic Planning‚ McMillan‚ 2nd Edition Whittington‚ R. (1993)‚ What is Strategy - and Does it Matter?‚ Cengage Learning EMEA‚ 2nd revised Edition‚ http://www.developtechnology.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14675&Itemid=101 [accessed on November 20‚ 2010] http://www
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the “Jamestown experience” between 1607 and 1700. The archaeological explanatory approaches: processual‚ post-processual‚ Marxism‚ and indigenous traditions‚ can all be applied to archaeological data to explain the experience between Colonial Settlers and Native populations in the Chesapeake Bay area. Processual archaeology uses a positivist approach when dealing with archaeological data‚ post-processual rejects a positivist approach and attempts to understand cultures in their own terms to explain
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For this assignment‚ i will compare and contrast the five paradigms: The term paradigm comes from the greek word meaning pattern or example. The five paradigms are classical‚ processual‚ systemic‚ evolutionary and cms. The classical approach is the oldest approach - military inspired. It focuses on profit maximising‚ relying on rational methods as well as being the most dominant of the approaches. The environment around them is believed to be dynamic although it is also seen as mostly
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CHAPTER 8 How Did They Make And Use Tools? Technology Summary The physical remains of humanly made artifacts form the bulk of the archaeological record. The artifacts that are found by archaeologists may not represent the range of objects actually used because certain materials preserve better than others. For this reason‚ stone tools and ceramics dominate the archaeological record. Objects made of fabric‚ cord‚ skin‚ and other organic materials no doubt date back to the very earliest archaeological
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as a verbal form of mixed processual-substantive nature and the basic form of verbal paradigms. Semi-predicative infinitive constructions. 6. The gerund as a verbal form of mixed processual-substantive nature. The infinitive‚ the gerund and the verbal noun: their correlation in expressing processual semantics (the lexico-grammatical category of processual representation). Semi-predicative gerundial constructions. 7. The participle as a verbal form of mixed processual-qualitative nature. The distinctions
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Strategic Choices 10: Mergers‚ Acquisitions and Alliances Johnson‚ Whittington‚ Scholes‚ Angwin and Regnér‚ Exploring Strategy Powerpoints on the Web‚ 10th edition ©Pearson Education Limited 2014 Slide 1.2 Three strategy methods Johnson‚ Whittington‚ Scholes‚ Angwin and Regnér‚ Exploring Strategy Powerpoints on the Web‚ 10th edition ©Pearson Education Limited 2014 Slide 1.3 The acquisition process Johnson‚ Whittington‚ Scholes‚ Angwin and Regnér‚ Exploring Strategy Powerpoints on the Web
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will discuss how the HR strategy is integrated within the organisation. Different approaches to the strategy making process. Beardwell & Claydon (2007) describes a range of approaches to producing a strategy that have been identified by Whittington (2001). The first approach mentioned is the classical approach‚ this approach analyses factors in the internal and external environment and then uses the findings to assist with the development and implementation of a strategy that meets the requirements
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strategy are treated as discrete sequential activities. The process starts with setting the basic‚ long term goals of an organisation‚ and proceeds with implementing courses of action & allocating the resources necessary to achieve those goals. Processual Approach – This approach is a reductionist approach provides an illusion of prediction of accuracy‚ but excludes the complexity of people issues that occur in strategy process. Strategy formulation & implementation are viewed as entangled activities
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Abstract In the case study‚ The British Airways Swipe Card Debacle‚ British Airways (BA) introduced ‘a system for electronic clocking in that would record when they [employees] started and finished work for the day… which was a unilateral decision by BA to introduce the swipe card‚ and a lack of adequate consultation with affected staff” (Palmer‚ Dunford‚ Akin‚ 2009‚ pp. 239 & 240). As a result‚ the BA staff held a twenty-four hour wildcat strike which caused BA to cancel its services‚ leaving
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