Strategic Manoeuvring with the Expression “Not for Nothing”

2021 ◽  
pp. 285-303
Author(s):  
Henrike Jansen ◽  
Francisca Snoeck Henkemans
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Manoeuvring

The effect of effectuation and causation approach on entrepreneurial orientation in the presence of leader dominance and self-efficacy

2022 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ma Jun ◽  
Fitri Rini Ariyesti ◽  
Sumran Ali ◽  
Peng Xiaobao
Keyword(s):  
Entrepreneurial Orientation ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Scale Up ◽  
Chief Executive ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Chinese Firms ◽  
Strategic Manoeuvring ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Leader Traits

Purpose Entrepreneurial orientation (EO) has witnessed a daunting rise in firm-level practices; to some extent, it has been augmented by the factors such as globalization and technological shift. The wide variety of literature has explained the importance of EO for firm performance. However, it has not yet been explored at a firm-level the approaches of causation and effectuation through the prism of leader traits such as leader dominance and self-efficacy as administrative ability and EO as strategic manoeuvring with strategic decisions obliged as a spin of firms. Design/methodology/approach The authors used the quantitative method to analyse the proposed relationships. For this reason, the authors targeted the Chinese firms to collect the data through the semi-structured survey from December 2020 to March 2021 and contributed to the literature by investigating 480 valid responses of leaders from Chinese firms. Findings The findings support the incorporated view of causation and effectuation on EO, which serve as vital strategic manoeuvring along with leader traits for firm stability and growth. Practical implications This study assists the decision-makers (including the top management team, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Executive Officer choose the particular approach (effectual or causal) to create the new venture/new product/new process or scale up the existing firm on another level for optimal benefits by considering their existing resources. Originality/value EO is a unidirectional process with three dimensions: innovativeness, proactiveness and risk-taking that could directly favour the firm by considering the well-known approaches (effectuation and causation) in crisis circumstances (like Covid-19). These approaches help the executives enhance their firm’s performance and maintain its sustainability and stability in crisis conditions by effectively using the available resources within its boundaries.

scholarly journals Strategic Manoeuvring and the Selection of Starting Points in the Pragma-Dialectical Framework

2014 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 241-249
Author(s):  
Gábor Forgács
Keyword(s):  
Final Part ◽  
Strategic Manoeuvring ◽  
Difference Of Opinion ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Opening Stage ◽  
Selection Of

Abstract The article analyzes strategic manoeuvring within the pragmadialectical framework with respect to the selection of starting points in the opening stage to frame the arguments. The Terri Schiavo case is presented, which can provide interesting insights concerning this issue. I would like to show that resolution of the difference of opinion requires the resolution of a subordinate difference of opinion concerning how to label her medical state, and why discussants were not able to resolve this subordinate difference of opinion. After, the conflict that arises between critical reasonableness and rhetorical effectiveness is examined and how strategic manoeuvring aims to resolve this conflict. In the final part of the paper I argue that the problems raised can be dealt with within the framework of pragma-dialectics.

scholarly journals Negotiating the Mines: The Culture of Safety in the Indian Coalmines, 1895–1970

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-118
Author(s):  
Dhiraj Kumar Nite
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Control Mechanism ◽  
Direct Action ◽  
Strategic Manoeuvring ◽  
Workplace Hazards ◽  
Work Relations ◽  
Culture Of Safety ◽  
Industrialization Process ◽  
The Right ◽  
And Function

This article explains the way mineworkers negotiated workplace hazards and articulated their ideas of safety. Mineworkers increasingly attained mining sense and made use of it, thereby surviving terrible working conditions and seeking to mend the accident-control mechanism. The formation and function of their mining sense were part of the industrialization process. It involved mineworkers’ particular ways of adaptation—quixotic and prudent—to the demand made by work relations. The miners’ unions strove to push the safety regime beyond voluntary codes of discipline and practical and technological solutions. They invested in legislative disciplining and sought informed safety-supervisory controls. They got involved in ‘civic engagement’ with agreeable investigators and legislators within the colonial context and afterwards. Confronted with the limits of such measures, the rank-and-file moved on, from the latter half of the 1950s to direct action in the very mining faces, thereby insisting on the right to withdrawal from danger. The historiographies which argued that Indian workers knowingly acquiesced to perilous mining to maintain livelihoods inadequately lend us the safety ideas shared and action at protection prevention undertaken by mineworkers. This article shows that Indian mineworkers reinforced the safety campaign through their strategic manoeuvring in legislative and workplace struggles as did their counterparts in Britain and some other societies.

Prospects for South Africa in 2020

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Public Debt ◽  
Local Elections ◽  
Strategic Manoeuvring ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Rating Agency ◽  
Growth Prospects ◽  
Leadership Changes ◽  
Opposition Parties

Subject Prospects for South Africa in 2020. Significance Fiscal woes and muted growth prospects are weighing heavily on President Cyril Ramaphosa’s government as it attempts to stabilise ailing state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and rein in public debt amid the prospect of further rating agency downgrades. Anti-corruption reforms are gaining momentum, while opposition parties undertake leadership changes and strategic manoeuvring ahead of the 2021 local elections.

The space for strategic manoeuvring in adjudicating a freedom of speech case in the Netherlands

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henrike Jansen
Keyword(s):  
Freedom Of Speech ◽  
Case Law ◽  
District Court ◽  
Activity Type ◽  
Strategic Manoeuvring ◽  
Public Prosecution ◽  
Legal Rules ◽  
The Public ◽  
Court Of Appeal ◽  
Do So

Abstract In this article it is shown that the institutional preconditions of the activity type adjudicating a freedom of speech case leave much room for strategic manoeuvring with topical selection. To this end, an analysis is presented of the argumentation of the District Court in a case against the Dutch anti-immigration politician Geert Wilders. In order to show the space for manoeuvring, this argumentation, resulting in acquittal, is compared with the argumentation put forward by the Court of Appeal, which had ordered, after the Public Prosecution Service’s refusal to do so, that Wilders be prosecuted. The analysis shows that the District Court made ample use of the space for manoeuvring provided at the normative level concerning the interpretation of legal rules and case law, and the space provided at the factual level of classifying the contested facts in light of the previously identified meaning of a rule.

scholarly journals Administrative Judicial Decisions as a Hybrid Argumentative Activity Type

2016 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 333 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. José Plug
Keyword(s):  
Administrative Law ◽  
Type I ◽  
Activity Type ◽  
Strategic Manoeuvring ◽  
Judicial Decisions ◽  
Argumentative Activity

This article focuses on strategic manoeuvring that takes place in Dutch administrative judi- cial decisions. These decisions may be seen as a distinct argumentative activity type. Starting from the char- acteristics that traditionally are per- tinent to this activity type, I will explore how implications of current discussions on the changing task of the administrative judge may be- come manifest in the judge’s strate- gic manoeuvring by means of the presentation of argumentation and the introduction of additional stand- points. The case study of Dutch administrative law serves to demon- strate what consequences changing institutional demands may have for the starting points of the analysis of argumentation in judicial decisions.

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