Cultural Influences on the Process of Strategic Management

Cultural Influences on the Process of Strategic Management

Author: Andreas Michael Schühly

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-01-01

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 3030866602

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This unique book is positioned at the crossroads of strategic management and international business. Based on an in-depth literature review, the author empirically assesses the widely shared, implicit assumption that strategic management processes can be globally applied in a standardized, i.e., culture-free, manner. So far, a variety of tools have also been recommended but without incorporating cultural differences. As many organizations observe that this ethnocentric view is more an illusion than reality, strategic management research has started to focus on the cultural sensitivity of its theories, tools, and processes to provide practitioners in a multicultural setting with adequate know-how and tools. To foster long-term decision-making despite uncertainty, scenario planning is frequently applied by practitioners. Up until today, scenario planning has however gained little attention from the academic community. Through this book, the author presents a newly developed framework for strategic management that combines the cultural value scale to test the cultural sensitivity of the long-term planning tool called “scenario planning.” The different process steps of scenario planning have been individually examined for their sensitivity toward the cultural dimensions of uncertainty avoidance and long-term orientation. The investigation is based on a unique, global set of management consultants working for a leading professional service firm. The results of this research show the cultural sensitivity of scenario planning, with different degrees of the process steps and the tested cultural dimensions.


Strategic Management

Strategic Management

Author: Marios I. Katsioloudes

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 407

ISBN-13: 0750679662

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Going beyond the traditional application of strategic planning, this book also addresses issues for the nonprofit sector and global aspects of strategic planning.


Organisational Culture

Organisational Culture

Author: Richard J. Black

Publisher: Universal-Publishers

Published: 2003-12

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13: 158112211X

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The strategy team have technology ideas and frameworks that represent the best body of knowledge for creating real business value from technology, but only other teams not the strategy team can create the value, by broadly completing the strategy team s ideas. The delivery teams often ignore the ideas. Sometimes real conflict emerges. It feels like the other teams think differently in a deeply rooted way. Could differences in organisational culture be to blame? This dissertation examines the organisational culture perceived within BP's energy trading technology team known as Integrated Supply and Trading Digital Business (ISTDB). The focus is on the Strategy and Architecture team (S&A) who are responsible for assuring the long-term viability of technology delivered to the business by setting and enforcing technology standards with the technology delivery teams (Regional Businesses or RBs). S&A relies on influence and persuasion to build compliance with the standards as it does not have line management responsibility for the other teams. This research concludes the perception of organisational culture is different between S&A and the RBs, and that it is a cause of conflict. The research also identifies that perceived organisational culture in ISTDB technology team as a whole is non-cohesive and not well aligned with the BP business strategy.This is a suboptimal arrangement for value creation. The author recommends both short-term and long-term shifts in working practices to correct this imbalance. The changes include a new emphasis on communications, new personnel hiring procedures and cross-cultural awareness training.


Cultural Influences on Strategic Planning

Cultural Influences on Strategic Planning

Author: Peter R. Haiss

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-11-09

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 3642499937

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This book challenges the universal applicability of strategic management concepts. It argues that it is necessary to pay attention to contextual facets of the environment, in particular to societal culture. It also depicts the current planning situation in the banking industry. The culture-boundness of strategy formulation and implementation is challenged and advocated trough discussing planning systems, processes, and heuristics, and contextual influences both an a theoretical basis and with empirical research. The book is based an my doctoral dissertation, which was completed at the Marketing and Banking Departments of the Vienna University of Economics under the auspices of Fritz Scheuch and Gustav Raab. Their teaching, constructive criticism, and encouragement provided the intellectual stimulation for bringing this dissertation to completion. This applies equally to several professors at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Harry Triandis and Anant Negandhi introduced me to cross-cultural research and inter national management. Howard Themas, Marjorie Lyles, and Irene Duhaime helped me to crystallize thoughts. Hanns-Martin Schönfeld, Seymour Sudman and Gerald Salancik challenged my thoughts about organizational behavior and methodology. Richard Watson, Univer sity of Georgia, and Louis Flores of Northern Illinois University were very helpful in providing address material for Australia and Latin America, as well as through assistance with translations. Norihiro Suzuki of Int'l Christian University, Tokyo, and Hiro Matsusaki of Tokyo University helped with Japanese translations.


Strategic Management

Strategic Management

Author: Marios Katsioloudes

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-11-04

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 1136362800

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Strategic Management has a unique approach goes beyond the traditional application for the for profit sector to address issues for the non-profit sector. It is the only graduate-level text that approaches strategic management from a global cultural perspective.


Examining Cultural Influences on Leadership Styles and Learning From Chinese Approaches to Management: Emerging Research and Opportunities

Examining Cultural Influences on Leadership Styles and Learning From Chinese Approaches to Management: Emerging Research and Opportunities

Author: Zhu, Valerie

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2017-03-23

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 1522522786

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For businesses to remain competitive, managers must continuously update their leadership methods. By attempting to learn from foreign experiences and approaches, managers can gain significant value in cross-cultural comparisons in the business realm. Examining Cultural Influences on Leadership Styles and Learning From Chinese Approaches to Management: Emerging Research and Opportunities is an informative scholarly reference source that examines the cultural aspects of management styles and techniques. Highlighting relevant topics such as leadership development, value systems, validity tests, and organizational communication, this publication will benefit all academicians, professionals, practitioners, managers, and business owners that are interested in discovering a more inclusive way to hone their leadership skillsets.


Influences Strategic Management Successful Factors

Influences Strategic Management Successful Factors

Author: Johnny Ch Lok

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2019-03-15

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13: 9781090592828

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Considering strategy is as a business logic rational and sequential, to the most dynamic that understand this process is as associated with cultural and learning factors, political and power relations. Strategy is not only one way of dealing in competition environment or market, as treated not only summarize the ideas, proposal, guidelines, indicative of paths and solutions. It has the concept of operational efficiency. In summary, strategy is what matters for the effectiveness of the organization, the external point of view, which stresses the research of the objectives against the environment, in term of internal stresses, the balance communication between members of the organization and a willingness contribute towards actions and the achievement of the common objectives; it is a series of actions to a particular situation, it is analyzing the present situation and changing it whenever necessary. It is the determinant of the basis long term goals of a firm and the adoption of action how to allocate resource necessary for carrying out these goals; it is a rule for making decisions determined by product/market scope, growth competitive advantage and synergy, it is addition of the decisions taken by an organization in all aspects, as much commercial as structural with the learning process to management, it is the directional action decisions to achieve firm's objectives. Hence, strategy is long term or short term plan to aim to achieve any missions or objectives for any organizations.Otherwise, strategic management defines key attributes: directed towards the overall organization objectives, includes multiple stakeholders in decision making, requires incorporating short and long term perspectives and involves the recognition of trade offs between effectiveness and efficiency. Strategy management is as an ongoing process involving the efforts of strategic managers to adjust the organization to the environment in which it operates when developing competitive advantages. These competitive advantages enable the company to seize opportunities and minimize environmental threats. It is a broad term that includes determining the mission and objective of the organization in the external and internal environment. Strategic communication plan How can organizational communication influence effectiveness and efficiency? What are the most effective pathways for delivering organizational messages to priority audiences? Is it the suitable media? Face-to-face meeting? Direct mail? The internet ? How will organization deliver message efficiently?Without a plan to guide organizational communication activities, the organization runs the risk of focusing on the wrong audiences, of using messages that simply do not work. In other words, without a well-thought-through plan, your organization runs the risk of becoming irrelevant with key audiences, even of failing to meet organizational mission.How to strategic communication plan? Your organization needs to proactively focus the activities of your organization, where there is the greatest potential for success; ensures your limited resources ( time and financial most effectively applied) imposes discipline and clear thinking about why it is the best interest for your communication method to your organization to pursue certain communication initiatives; to integrate all of your public relations efforts; media, government, donor to corporate etc.; to ensure that every member in your organization staff board, volunteers are on the same level fairly, to achieve results that more your members towards realizing your organization's goals and to encourage creative thinking about new ways to address old challenges.


Analysis of Cultural Differences and Their Effects on Marketing Products in the United States of America and Germany: A Cultural Approach to Marketing Using Edward T. Hall and Geert Hofstede

Analysis of Cultural Differences and Their Effects on Marketing Products in the United States of America and Germany: A Cultural Approach to Marketing Using Edward T. Hall and Geert Hofstede

Author: Matthias Boeing

Publisher: Anchor Academic Publishing (aap_verlag)

Published: 2013-05-27

Total Pages: 81

ISBN-13: 3954890364

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"Companies that do not adapt to the new global realities will become victims of those that do." In this quote Theodor Levitt, a former professor at the Harvard Business School, points out that companies all over the world need to deal with a process which has changed the way they carry on a business in many ways. The process, namely globalisation, takes advantages as well as disadvantages, not only for the business world but also for the individual. The importance to face globalisation has always been there but, it has increased with the evolving stages of globalisation. Ever since this process started, companies have tried to derive advantage from globalisation while at the same time they had to deal with the disadvantages. For marketers in particular, this process seems to offer a lot of potential for the exploration of new markets and customers. However, the questions determining the success or failure of a marketing campaign are more complex than in domestic marketing. Accordingly, the terms international and global marketing are strongly connected to globalisation, and have become a key factor for the success of companies. Corporations that want belong to these successful multi-national companies (MNC), or global players certainly have to deal with the different issues that come along with marketing products in other countries. These can have a significant impact on international operations but also on the overall performance of a company. Since a company's approach to these issues determines the success or failure in marketing a product abroad, these situations have to be addressed at an early stage. Among others, cultural differences are one of the major obstacles that have to be considered in international marketing. Every culture has its own individual values, behaviours, ways of thinking, lifestyle and language which make it unique. Accordingly, companies have two different possibilities to deal with that process. At first, standardisation, an identical


Does Culture Matter in Competence Management?

Does Culture Matter in Competence Management?

Author: Mi Sook Park Westman

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2012-06-18

Total Pages: 74

ISBN-13: 1477103953

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This research has implications for both industrial and academic readers. The industrial readers will find interesting to see what and how cross-cultural organizations adopt the findings in their own competence development processes. Not all the factors identified in this research are critical influence since some has a direct influence whereas other has an indirect influence. It points out that there is a connection between an individuals motivation and the successful implementation of competence development programs. This research brings attention to the importance of understanding cultural differences in learning situations. It is often the case that it is a dilemma for cross-cultural organizations to implement centrally designed programs in different local organizations. Cultural differences become a barrier if they are ignored and cultural diversity an enabler to enrich the contents of programs by learning from different participants bringing their cultures behind in their backs. This research also illuminates how assumptions and use of words influence the understanding and acceptance of messages and contents by participants. It emphasizes the importance to have a common basic understanding of learning targets by giving explanations of certain terms critical in the introductory phase of competence development programs. It is even more important if the programs aim to change behaviors and attitudes after the programs compared with programs aiming at factual knowledge and information. It is not always needed for local adjustments in running training programs. When the program is purely about the knowledge acquisitions like technical knowledge, the importance of local adaptation becomes less critical than training programs aiming at behavioral or attitudes changes. It is an absolute must for facilitators to learn about local cultures before they run any training programs. Managing competence development programs in a cross-cultural organization becomes even more successful when there are driving forces coming from individuals who attend the programs. When individuals feel that they are drivers for competence development, the effect of development programs becomes greater and the energy level in learning room is high. In addition to that, when there is management engagement and interest, there is a boost in the energy of a learning place. The maturity of an organization is of importance. When the organization is new and young, people are in the room of confusions and insecurity and they need more time to ventilate their feelings and thoughts. Even when there is a change in the organization, there are questions about those changes and there must be more time allocated for explanations and discussions so time management in programs runs smoothly. Humbleness, taking responsibility and respect are parts of IKEA culture. People come from different cultures. When individuals are humble enough to respect other cultures and also individuals take responsibility to understand different cultures, there are better foundations for the successful competence development processes. Organizations with a mix of different cultures aim at learning as a community. Meaning can be simultaneously diverse and shared from individual to individual.


Cultural Values in Strategy and Organization

Cultural Values in Strategy and Organization

Author: T. K. Das

Publisher: IAP

Published: 2021-06-01

Total Pages: 371

ISBN-13: 1648025145

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The field of strategy science has grown in both the diversity of issues it addresses and the increasingly interdisciplinary approaches it adopts in understanding the nature and significance of problems that are continuously emerging in the world of human endeavor. These newer kinds of challenges and opportunities arise in all forms of organizations, encompassing private and public enterprises, and with strategies that experiment with breaking the traditional molds and contours. The field of strategy science is also, perhaps inevitably, being impacted by the proliferation of hybrid organizations such as strategic alliances, the upsurge of approaches that go beyond the customary emphasis on competitiveness and profit making, and the intermixing of time-honored categories of activities such as business, industry, commerce, trade, government, the professions, and so on. The blurring of the boundaries between various areas and types of human activities points to a need for academic research to address the consequential developments in strategic issues. Hence, research and thinking about the nature of issues to be tackled by strategy science should also cultivate requisite variety in issues recognized for research inquiry, including the conceptual foundations of strategy and strategy making, and the examination of the critical roles of strategy makers, strategic thinking, time and temporalities, business and other goal choices, diversity in organizing modes for strategy implementation, and the complexities of managing strategy, to name a few. This book series on Research in Strategy Science aims to provide an outlet for ideas and issues that publications in the field do not provide, either expressly or adequately, especially as regards the comprehensive coverage deserved by certain emerging areas of interest. The topics of the volumes in the series will keep in view this objective to expand the research areas and theoretical approaches routinely found in strategy science, the better to permit expanded and expansive treatments of promising issues that may not sufficiently align with the usual research coverage of publications in the field. Cultural Values in Strategy and Organization contains contributions by leading scholars on the role of cultural values in the field of strategy science research. The 11 chapters in this volume cover the topics of ecological organizing and evolving cultural values, corporate cultural responsibility, cultural integration in mergers and acquisitions, culture and paradoxical frames, cultural values in the fair trade market, national culture and legitimacy, family businesses as values-driven organizations, cultural intelligence of executives, building an alliance culture, personal values of civil engineers and architects, and cultural characteristics of Chilean and Brazilian workforces. The chapters collectively present a wide-ranging review of the noteworthy research perspectives on the role of cultural values in strategy and organization.