Contemporary strategic management practices of leading organisations

dc.contributor.advisorRaina, Rajinderen
dc.contributor.emailichelp@gibs.co.zaen
dc.contributor.postgraduateFrank, Tracy Bethen
dc.date.accessioned2013-09-07T01:38:37Z
dc.date.available2012-09-21en
dc.date.available2013-09-07T01:38:37Z
dc.date.created2012-03-08en
dc.date.issued2012-09-21en
dc.date.submitted2012-06-30en
dc.descriptionDissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2012.en
dc.description.abstractUnderpinning the elements of strategy design and execution are assumptions, norms and beliefs which can be broadly characterised as strategic management practices. These strategic management practices are in evidence in all schools of strategy academic theory. Whilst there has been a great deal of work conducted into the processes of strategy design and execution, there is little study of strategic management practices. This research sought to uncover the contemporary strategic management practices in evidence at a select number of leading organisations through qualitative analysis of secondary data in the form of case studies and other publically available material. A nascent content based definition for the concept of strategic management practices was developed from the literature review and tested against the evidence uncovered. Additional themes uncovered from the data were incorporated into the proposed definition and a synthesised version developed based on the strength of the evidence uncovered.en
dc.description.availabilityunrestricteden
dc.description.departmentGordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS)en
dc.identifier.citationFrank, TB 2011, Contemporary strategic management practices of leading organisations, MBA dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/25959 >en
dc.identifier.otherF/12/4/648/zwen
dc.identifier.upetdurlhttp://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-06302012-191642/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/25959
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of Pretoriaen_ZA
dc.rights© 2011, University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria.en
dc.subjectUCTDen_US
dc.subjectOrganisation behaviouren
dc.subjectStrategic management practicesen
dc.subjectStrategyen
dc.titleContemporary strategic management practices of leading organisationsen
dc.typeDissertationen

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