scholarly journals Role of a Strategic Management Team in Conflict Resolution: A Case Study of IKEA

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 329-335
Author(s):  
Tanmayee Parbat
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Management ◽  
Management Team ◽  
Workplace Conflict ◽  
Organizational Goals ◽  
Excessive Competition ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Team Productivity ◽  
Detrimental Impact

Abstract: The thesis looked into and investigated the topic at hand as a case study of IKEA's strategic management team in dispute resolution. Organizational operations changes have a cascade effect on marketing and human resource management, undermining efforts at standardization and localization. Workplace disagreement can jeopardise organizational goals, leading to dysfunction and excessive competition. Workplace conflict must be addressed before it has a detrimental impact on team productivity and leads businesses to lose money. However, workplace disagreements can lead to the formation of positive relationships, peer learning, enhanced communication, new ideas, and increased motivation. We used transformational leadership theory to look at how senior account managers deal with conflict at work for this study. The thesis looked at IKEA's marketing techniques for forming a strategic management team to handle conflicts, and it was based on extensive research and accurate data.

Yankee Ingenuity in the South: James Burton and Confederate Ordnance Production

Vulcan ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-55
Author(s):  
Steven G. Collins
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
Technological Diffusion ◽  
The South ◽  
Military Technology ◽  
American System ◽  
Harpers Ferry ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Connecticut Valley

This article examines the role of James Burton in the diffusion of military technology in the mid-19th century. Burton worked as the Master Armorer at the Harpers Ferry Armory, as a contractor in the Connecticut Valley, and as an engineer at the Enfield Armory. At each location he incorporated the latest ideas of the American System of Manufacturing. Not only did he transmit new ideas, he visited, studied, and learned from his international peers. When the American Civil War began, he joined the Confederate Ordnance Department and helped the South continue a long and destructive war. The new technological ideas—bred out of necessity of war—continued to help shape the creation of a New South. After the war, Burton influenced weapons manufacturing in Russia, Italy, Turkey, and Egypt. The ideas that Burton helped implement is a case study of international technological diffusion.

Management of Virtual Teams and Capabilities in Business Networks

2012 ◽  
pp. 30-47
Author(s):  
A.T. Juntunen
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Management ◽  
Virtual Teams ◽  
Qualitative Case Study ◽  
Good Chance ◽  
Business Networks ◽  
Business Network ◽  
Organizational Goals ◽  
Internal Knowledge

This chapter investigates and analyzes the management of capabilities in virtual teams in a business network context. This is a qualitative case study in the ICT-sector in Finland. This chapter will demonstrate that the organizations have a good chance to succeed if they can harness the external and internal knowledge and utilize the capabilities and knowledge in virtual teams to support organizational goals and strategies. It also illustrates the importance of trust in building and maintaining relationships. This chapter aims to contribute to the prior strategic management and business networks research.

scholarly journals “Journal of the History of Economic Thought Preprints - Economists and Their Travels, or the Time When JFK Sent Douglass North on a Mission to Brazil”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mauro Boianovsky
Keyword(s):  
Economic Thought ◽  
History Of Economic Thought ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
History Of Economics ◽  
Potential Source ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Douglass North

The role of traveling as a source of discovery and development of new ideas has been controversial in the history of economics. Despite their protective attitude toward established theory, economists have traveled widely and gained new insights or asked new questions as a result of their exposition to “other” economic systems, ideas and forms of behavior. That is particularly the case when they travel to new places while their frameworks are in their initial stages or undergoing changes. This essay examines economists’ traveling as a potential source of new hypotheses, from the 18th to the 20th centuries, with a detailed case study of Douglass North’s 1961 travel to Brazil.

Understanding Transnational Diaspora Entrepreneurship and the Role of Values

2017 ◽  
pp. 45-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Elo
Keyword(s):  
Change Agents ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
Longitudinal Case Study ◽  
Value Differences ◽  
Entrepreneurial Firm ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Major Player ◽  
New Ideas

Transnational diaspora entrepreneurship and its role linking two or more countries and generating business receive increasing attention. Diaspora entrepreneurs act often as pioneers and change agents bringing new ideas, products and services with them. In the context of ethnic enclaves, ethnic entrepreneurs face a different situation than those who target the mainstream economy and need to tackle with the value differences and challenges created by such cultural dimensions. Moreover, the development path in a transnational setting sets its own dynamics on the business development, but the value employment remains unknown. Whose values are in use and how these values are implemented? This longitudinal case study focuses on one Cypriot-Finnish entrepreneurial firm, which evolves from a start-up to a major player in the Finnish food business in imports of ethnic food products. The analysis examines values and cultural dimensions and contributes to better understanding on the transnational diaspora entrepreneurship, its dynamics and adopted philosophy on values-in-use across generations.

scholarly journals Becoming Salient: The TMT Leader’s Role in Shaping the Interpretive Context of Paradoxical Tensions

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 403-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Knight ◽  
Sotirios Paroutis
Keyword(s):  
Equilibrium Model ◽  
Dynamic Equilibrium ◽  
Top Management Team ◽  
Management Team ◽  
Business Units ◽  
Dynamic Equilibrium Model ◽  
Embedded Case Study ◽  
Over Time

How do paradoxical tensions become salient in organizations over time? Ambidexterity and paradox studies have, thus far, primarily focused on how tensions inside organizations are managed after they have been rendered salient for actors. Using a longitudinal, embedded case study of four strategic business units within a media organization, we theorize the role of the top management team leader’s practices in enabling tensions to become salient for their respective lower-level managers when there are initial differences in how tensions are interpreted across levels. Our findings extend a dynamic equilibrium model of organizing by adding interpretive context as an enabling condition that shapes the emergence of salience through the provision of a constellation of cues that guide sensemaking. Informed by a practice-based perspective on paradox, we also contribute a conceptual model of leadership as practice, and outline the implications for ambidexterity studies.

scholarly journals Unpacking the Role of Neoliberalism on the Politics of Poverty Reduction Policies in Ontario, Canada: A Descriptive Case Study and Critical Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 485
Author(s):  
Jessica K. Gill
Keyword(s):  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Grey Literature ◽  
Political Climate ◽  
Social Advocacy ◽  
Descriptive Case Study ◽  
Reduction Strategy ◽  
Poverty Reduction Strategy ◽  
Detrimental Impact

This paper employs a descriptive case study method to analyze and critically review the emergence of the provincial poverty reduction strategy in Ontario, Canada which was implemented in 2008 and renewed in 2014. The purpose of this study is two-fold: first, it defines the principles of neoliberalism and explores the historical growth of neoliberal thought in Canada, and specifically within Ontario, beginning in the 1980s to the present-day. Drawing on a combination of primary, secondary and grey literature, this paper discusses the ways in which neoliberal ideologies and rhetoric became deeply rooted in political thought and discourse within the province. Employing a critical theory framework, the paper highlights the contrasting ways in which neoliberal values were adopted by the different political parties in power and the detrimental impact this espousal had on individuals living in poverty within Ontario. Second, the paper illustrates the powerful ways in which anti-poverty grassroots movements and social advocacy groups assembled to push for the creation of a provincial poverty reduction strategy. The analysis ends with a critique of the neoliberal influences on the strategy’s recommendations and the future outlook of the poverty reduction strategy based on the current political climate within the province.

scholarly journals STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT OF CHANGE IN ISLAMIC EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS (A Case Study at Islamic Education Institution of Syafana Islamic School Serpong)

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
pp. 728-741
Author(s):  
Eva Iryani ◽  
M. Masruri ◽  
Maisah
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Management ◽  
Swot Analysis ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
Learning System ◽  
Islamic Education ◽  
Analysis Model ◽  
Islamic School

This paper shows the role of Syafana Islamic School's strategic management in the transformation of the implementation of the full-day program by changing it to a boarding school system. These changes are not only in the aspect of the learning system, but even on the curriculum side which uses the combination of several curricula; Diknas, Egypt (Al-Azhar) and Cambridge are integrated into the concept of Islamic boarding school, the change process is observed and analyzed using the SWOT analysis model (Strength, Weakness ,Opportunity and Threath) with an emphasis on the process of changing the system and curriculum applied by Syafana Islamic School. With the results and findings, there is a strategic management in the transformation by integrating and using four collaborative strategies. First, the Strategic Opportunity Strategy. With the model of merging and accumulating strengths by exploiting various opportunities. Second, the Strength Threath Strategy with knowledge of the strengths possessed can see and anticipate existing threats. Third, the Weakness Opportunity Strategy, the opportunity to be a major factor in efforts to overcome the weaknesses in this institution and Finally the Weakness Threath Strategy. Defense efforts are still analyzed and carried out in order to minimize weaknesses and threats from outside the institution.

scholarly journals Role of Brand equity in influencing purchase intention branded baby soap: A case study in Jaffna District, Sri Lanka

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (02) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kalaimahal S ◽  
Kumaradeepan, K
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Brand Equity ◽  
Purchase Intention ◽  
Profit Maximization ◽  
Brand Choice ◽  
Population Data ◽  
Organizational Goals ◽  
Main Thing

Many organization tries to achieve their organizational goals like profit maximization, high market share and survival. In market, consumers have certain expectation from the brands and trend to rely on brand as an indicator to purchase intention of brand choice, all the resources spend in wasted of each brand organizations. Therefore, this study about the Role of brand equity in influencing the purchase intention of branded baby soaps, which is one of the most competitive markets in Jaffna District Sri Lanka. 200 questionnaires were collected from Jaffna District population. Data were analyzed and evaluated by univariate and bivariate techniques. For this study, only five branded baby soaps are considered such as pears baby Jhonson and Jhonson, baby Cheramy, Khomba baby and Kekulu. However, the main thing is the marketer want to identify that all these soaps brand equity positively in influencing the purchase intention devoid of Kekulu. For the reason, there are very low Kekulu soap buyers in the study area. Overall view the brand equity strong positively influence the purchase intention of Jhonson and Jhonson soap. Eventually, this report recommends some actions for improving the role of brand equity in influencing the purchase intention of branded baby soap market.

Understanding Transnational Diaspora Entrepreneurship and the Role of Values

2017 ◽  
pp. 116-136
Author(s):  
Maria Elo
Keyword(s):  
Change Agents ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
Longitudinal Case Study ◽  
Value Differences ◽  
Entrepreneurial Firm ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Major Player ◽  
New Ideas

Transnational diaspora entrepreneurship and its role linking two or more countries and generating business receive increasing attention. Diaspora entrepreneurs act often as pioneers and change agents bringing new ideas, products and services with them. In the context of ethnic enclaves, ethnic entrepreneurs face a different situation than those who target the mainstream economy and need to tackle with the value differences and challenges created by such cultural dimensions. Moreover, the development path in a transnational setting sets its own dynamics on the business development, but the value employment remains unknown. Whose values are in use and how these values are implemented? This longitudinal case study focuses on one Cypriot-Finnish entrepreneurial firm, which evolves from a start-up to a major player in the Finnish food business in imports of ethnic food products. The analysis examines values and cultural dimensions and contributes to better understanding on the transnational diaspora entrepreneurship, its dynamics and adopted philosophy on values-in-use across generations.

scholarly journals Relationship between innovation and networks in chestnut value chain: A case study in Italy

2018 ◽  
Vol 64 (No. 1) ◽  
pp. 43-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Focacci Marco ◽  
Meo Isabella De ◽  
Paletto Alessandro
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Chestnut Blight ◽  
Value Chain Analysis ◽  
Mountainous Areas ◽  
Gall Wasp ◽  
Chain Analysis ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Institutional Actors

In the last decades, the chestnut production has decreased in Italy due to diseases such as chestnut blight and chestnut gall wasp, and progressive depopulation of mountainous areas. The aim of the paper is to analyse the role of social network to enhance the dissemination of new ideas and innovations in view of the chestnut value chain development. The study was conducted in the Mugello-Val di Sieve area in the Tuscany region (Italy). A participatory value chain analysis approach was used for the strengthening of the local chestnut value chain. The data were collected by administering a questionnaire to a sample of 126 chestnut growers (83 chestnut growers enrolled and 43 not enrolled in the Consortium of “Marrone del Mugello Protected Geographical Indication”) to highlight the relationships between farmers and institutional actors. The network of the Consortium members was compared with the network of the non-members. The results show that a well-structured network allows for better dissemination of information and knowledge between farmers and greater diversification of product market sales.

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