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James, Hakeem Kolawole. "Strategic planning : theory and practice." Thesis, University of Manchester, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.282936.
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Hafey, John Richard. "A theory of naval strategic planning." Thesis, Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/23424.
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This study proposes a theory of naval strategic planning for programming. It identifies and describes those factors which should influence how the Navy determines its future force requirements and eventual capabilities. The work is premised upon the following hypothesis: Within the context of national military strategy, naval long-range planning for future forces should be based on an in-depth understanding of three factors: (1) the future role of the sea in national military strategy; (2) the missions naval forces will be required to perform; and (3) future trends in naval warfare. The first task of planning is to guide the organization into an uncertain future. It must identify those factors which can be used to determine future requirements. The resultant concepts can then be further developed as required by the organization's overall needs. Strategic planning is first and foremost a frame of mind for conceptualizing those requirements. This study proposes a theory to establish that framework. Keywords: Naval planning; Military strategy; Theses. (sdw)
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Shipley, Robert. "Visioning in strategic planning, theory, practice and evaluation." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq22238.pdf.
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Yates, George C. (George Cochrane). "A Comprehensive Competitive Advantage Construct: Its Theory and Operationalization." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1991. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc332834/.
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Competitive advantage (CA) is an intuitively evident concept which has been widely used in theoretical research in strategy. But CA's diffuse image and its dynamic nature make it a difficult concept to apply. The purpose of this study was to develop a comprehensive (or macro) CA construct capable of being applied in an empirical manner across a broad spectrum of business situations. This objective required both an adequate grounding of the CA concept within its nomological- net of theories and a new operationalization approach.
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Brown, Irwin T. J. "Espoused theory versus theory in use : the case of strategic information systems planning." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/5638.
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Includes bibliographical references.Strategic information systems planning (SISP) has been a key issue for Information Systems (IS) managers over several decades. As a consequence, much research has been devoted to studing it. Noted concerns have been the gap between opinion and practice, and the absence of a sound theory to underpin it. Attempts at developing an overarching theoretical framework have typically used an input-process-output variance model as the basis. Rich processual elements of SISP, and the existence of feedback loops, which could then lead to improved practice, have however, been noted as absent from these models. Synthesis and integration of the above concerns lead to the goal of this study, which was to develop rich processual theories about SISP. The grounded theory methodology was ideally suited to this purpose as it aims to develop theory that is well grounded in data, and therefore very much reflective of the reality presented by the data.
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Down, Jonathan T. "Matching internal governance mechanisms to strategic process : an agency theory perspective on implementing strategic decisions /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/8753.
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Knoll, Sebastian Müller-Stewens Günter. "Cross-business synergies a typology of cross-business synergies and a mid-range theory of continuous growth synergy realization /." Wiesbaden : Betriebswirtschaftlicher Verlag Dr. Th. Gabler, 2008. http://site.ebrary.com/id/10239446.
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FILIPPO, THAIS HERNANDEZ. "STRATEGIC INVESTMENTS PLANNING AND EXECUTION UNDER UNCERTAINTY: REAL OPTION THEORY CONTRIBUTIONS." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2011. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=19254@1.
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COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIORPROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTS. DE ENSINO
Este trabalho se propõe a orientar como utilizar de forma conjunta e complementar os conceitos de Estratégia Empresarial e Finanças, mais especificamente da Teoria de Opções Reais, uma moderna teoria de análise de investimentos sob incerteza. Nas empresas vem coexistindo dois sistemas para a alocação de recursos: o planejamento estratégico e a orçamentação de capital, em geral, o primeiro define as iniciativas estratégicas e o segundo faz a verificação de viabilidade econômico-financeira destas iniciativas. Entretanto, muitas vezes a intuição vai contra as análises financeiras tradicionais. Além disso, a complexidade da tomada de decisão estratégica em um ambiente de incerteza vem crescendo em função do acelerado dinamismo do mercado e da infinidade de oportunidades que aparecem em um mundo altamente globalizado e conectado. Portanto, a união dos conceitos atualmente dispersos nestes dois sistemas é de fundamental importância para a deliberação e execução de estratégias consistentes e lucrativas. A Teoria de Opções Reais, cujas características se aproximam mais da realidade estratégica por considerar as flexibilidades gerenciais e não ter a abordagem passiva das ferramentas tradicionais, aparece, então, como uma resposta a esta necessidade de aproximação. Neste contexto, esta dissertação busca analisar a contribuição desta teoria à Estratégia Empresarial e construir um modelo que aproxime estes dois campos de estudo e direcione a prática de planejamento e execução de investimentos estratégicos.
This work intends to give guidance on how to use jointly and complementarily the concepts of Corporate Strategy and Finance, specifically the Theory of Real Options, a modern theory of investment analysis under uncertainty. In corporate practice are co-existing two systems for resource allocation, strategic planning and capital budgeting. Usually the first defines the strategic initiatives and the second checks the economic viability of these initiatives. However, intuition often goes against the traditional financial analysis. Moreover, the complexity of strategic decision making in an uncertain environment is growing rapidly as a function of market dynamics and the myriad of opportunities that appear in a highly globalized and connected world. Therefore, the union of these two concepts currently dispersed in these systems is of fundamental importance for the deliberation and execution of consistent and profitable strategies. Real Options Theory, whose characteristics are closer to reality by considering the strategic and managerial flexibility and not having the passive approach of traditional tools, then appears as a response to this need for approximation. In this context, this dissertation seeks to analyze the contribution of this theory to business strategy and build a model that combines these two fields of study and directs the practice of planning and execution of strategic investments.
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Sawalha, Ihab Hanna. "Business continuity management and strategic planning : the case of Jordan." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 2011. http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/10172/.
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Business Continuity Management (BCM) is a process that focuses on counteracting organizational risk, disasters and crises. Placing Business Continuity Management in the context of Strategic Planning (SP) will help organizations to cope with a wide range of unexpected incidents before, during and after their occurrence. Subsequently, this will help to ensure the long-term survival of an organization. The aim of this research is to develop an understanding of the significance of placing BCM in the context of SP. This requires studying BCM, its significance, role and practice; Strategic Planning, its significance, purpose and potential vulnerability; the rationale for placing BCM in the context of SP; the factors that are likely to influence placing BCM in the context of SP including driving factors and obstacles; and managers’ views of BCM and the placing of BCM in the context of SP. This research was undertaken in the Jordanian context. Data was collected via interviewer-administered questionnaires which were conducted with general managers and other key managers from Jordanian organizations from the banking, insurance, industrial and services sectors. 110 questionnaires were collected. The questionnaires were followed by 10 semi-structured interviews in order to support the quantitative findings obtained by the questionnaires. The research findings revealed that 80.9% of the surveyed organizations in Jordan used BCM. Those organizations that used BCM differed to some extent in their practice of BCM. 51.8% of the surveyed organizations had BCM placed in the context of SP. SP was important for achieving organizational purposes including those related to BCM. The approach to BCM, which is adopted in Jordanian organizations, helped to place BCM in the context of SP. There were a number of factors that discouraged some Jordanian organizations from placing BCM in the context of SP. However, there were also a number of factors that encouraged some other Jordanian organizations to place BCM in the context of SP. Managers had positive views regarding BCM. They either agreed or strongly agreed that BCM can be integrated with SP; BCM would help their organizations to cope with various types of disasters and crises if it is integrated with SP; BCM was an integral part of their organizations’ approach to risk; and BCM was not an extra burden to their businesses.
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Bitektine, Alexandre B. "Legitimacy properties and their implications for institutional theory and strategic management." Thesis, McGill University, 2008. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=115624.
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This doctoral thesis seeks to advance our understanding of organizational legitimacy through the analysis of types and properties of legitimacy and of its relation to the concepts of status and reputation. More specifically, this doctoral thesis seeks to contribute to organizational theory and strategic management by (1) reviewing and systematizing legitimacy types discerned in the literature and contrasting legitimacy with related concepts of reputation and status, (2) identifying the properties of legitimacy, and (3) exploring some of the implications of these properties for management practice and strategic management research.The doctoral research is presented in the form of a manuscript-based thesis consisting of three interrelated papers:
1. Organizational Legitimacy as a Form of Judgment. Through the analysis of legitimacy definitions, types and typologies, and operationalizations, this study first develops an enumerative definition of organizational legitimacy, maps different types of legitimacy discerned in the literature onto the process of legitimacy judgment formation and highlights the fundamental differences between cognitive and sociopolitical legitimacy types. This paper then advances a conceptualization of cognitive and sociopolitical types of legitimacy, reputation and status as four different types of judgment that actors can render in respect to an organization and explores some implications of this approach for organizational research, namely the role of social judgments in exchange partner selection and the use of social judgments under conditions of uncertainty.
2. Legitimacy-Based Entry Deterrence in Inter-Population Competition. This paper develops a theory of competitive social norm manipulations and explores the strategies that well-established organizational populations use to build legitimacy-based barriers to entry into their domain. The study develops a typology of legitimacy manipulation strategies that established organizational populations use to prevent, eradicate or palliate the new entrants' impact by: (1) changing the relative importance of legitimacy dimensions, (2) raising the legitimacy threshold and (3) altering perceptions of competitors' performance. Successful legitimacy manipulations are shown to lead to institutional immunization of the incumbents against similar competitive challenges in the future.
3. Defensive Institutional Strategies in Emergent Industries. Through a comparative analysis of two emergent industries in Canada, this study advances a conceptualization of the process of emergence of a new industry from a successful innovative business model, focusing on sequential lines of institutional defense that are available to emergent industries that come under such attacks: (1) keep a low profile; (2) form a trade association; (3) develop an industry code to provide guidelines and member coordination; (4) enforce the code through self-policing; (5) if everything else fails to end the attack, invite the government to impose regulation. Illustrations of the application of these strategies are provided.
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Friedrich, Robert E. "Strategic planning for congregations a route to renewal for the church family /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1996. http://www.tren.com.
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Gould, Edward. "Interactive decision support systems and activity theory a population projection flow model for strategic planning in education /." Access electronically, 1995. http://ro.uow.edu.au/theses/257.
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Holloway, David Anthony. "Strategic management accounting and managerial decision-making reconceptualised : towards a collaboratively oriented theory of organizational decision enhancement (ODE) /." Access via Murdoch University Digital Theses Project, 2006. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20061103.115423.
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Guild, Justin M. "Extending situational theory to internal publics : Q methodology within a strategic management process." Virtual Press, 2008. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1397374.
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This Q study revealed how dominant coalition members of an Indianapolis, Ind. —based non-profit organization approached and interpreted problems within a strategic management process — a necessary area to study in pubic relations considering the dearth of research of internal publics within the field.The same forty-eight statement Q sort was used in two time periods to track movement of communication behavior among members: a pre-sort before the process and a post-sort at the end.Using a public relations theory, the situational theory of publics, as a framework, the Q sort was aligned with the theory's dependent variables of active and passive communication behavior. The data from the completed Q sorts was then entered into the PQMethod software. Four factors were identified in the pre-sort, and two factors were identified in the post-sort.Findings indicate that the four pre-sort groups lacked consensus in their behavior on how to approach problems. However, the two post-sort groups exhibited a change in behavior, showing consistency in their interpretation of problems. In the context of this research, dominant coalition members can be segmented by their communication behavior, not just by their positions inside an organization.Department of Journalism
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Blackwell, Rodney D. (Rodney Dean). "Strategy, Structure, and Performance of U.S.-Based Multinational Organizations: A Fit Theory Study." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1997. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278252/.
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The research question addressed by the study asks, "Is international integration strategic and departmental structural fit a predictor of performance in U.S.-based, single-business multinational organizations?" The study is designed to extend existing research in international integration strategy, which is often called "global strategy," "globalization," or "internationalization" in the popular press and academic research literature.
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Osman, Esam. "Developing strategic information system planning model in Libya organisations." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/1173.
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This quantitative research study investigated the impact of organisational context on the process and success of strategic IS planning (SISP) in post-implementation information systems in Libyan organisations. A set of direct and indirect relationships were investigated in the research model. The organisational context presented as a contingent situational variable mediated by SISP process and predicted by SISP success (the criterion variable). The causality of the relationship set was developed from the contingency theory of information systems and supported by fit models in strategic management research. The study deployed multivariate analysis represented in the structural equation modelling (SEM) to develop robust construct measurements and analyse data collected from executives responsible for information systems planning in both public and private Libyan organisations. Multi-dimensional multi-items constructs were used in the path analysis model after they were extensively validated. The path analysis model represented as mediation model, where hypothesise suggest that SISP context has an impact SISP success, through the influence of the SISP process. In the model, four dimensions of the SISP context construct were found to have a significant impact on SISP success directly and indirectly through the SISP process. Two of these dimensions are components of the leadership orientation construct, namely “Creative and Controlling” leadership. The other two dimensions are “Organisation centralisation structure and the Riskiness of organisation strategies”. The environmental uncertainty and planning resource constructs were found to have no impact on SISP success in Libyan organisations. Furthermore, this study validated six out of seven dimensions of SISP process construct measurement; only five exhibited acceptable fit level in the path analysis model and all were affected by the SISP context. However, just three out of five SISP process constructs had an impact on SISP success namely “Comprehensiveness, Focus and Intuition planning process”. Different SISP processes were associated with different levels of SISP success, “Intuition” was the most effective SISP process approach. The second most effective SISP process approach was the “Focus on innovation”, followed by “Limited comprehensiveness”. The SISP success measured by the fulfilment of key objectives that has three measurements constructs namely “Analysis, Alignment, and Cooperation”. The research suggest that under the effect of organisation context the most successful SISP produced by (CIO, CEO, or top executives) who rely less on personal judgment, focus more on innovation rather than control and limit their comprehensiveness of information systems planning process.
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Gajary, Lisa Christen. "Pathways for Theory Development: A Logic and a Methodology for Public and Nonprofit Strategic Planning." The Ohio State University, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1610089735227696.
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Steen, John T. "Actor-networks in the resource-based view of strategic management /." St. Lucia, Qld, 2003. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe17674.pdf.
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Chester, Ronan, and Jennifer Woofter. "Non-Financial Disclosure and Strategic Planning : Sustainability Reporting for Good Corporate Governance." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Avdelningen för maskinteknik, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-2252.
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A sustainability report is a tool to help organizations monitor and communicate economic, environmental, and social performance. A corporate strategic planning model is a tool that guides businesses through decision-making processes for sustainable competitive advantage and long-term economic success. While both tools can be used to move a company towards sustainability, the processes are usually not closely integrated. This project explores a closer integration of sustainability reporting and strategic planning for improved corporate governance and strategic sustainable development. We scrutinize the 2002 Global Reporting Initiative Sustainability Reporting Guidelines against a scientific principle definition of sustainability, pointing out current shortcomings and suggesting opportunities for improvement. An enhanced sustainability reporting model is proposed followed by an exploration of how this reporting model can bring value to the corporate strategic planning process.
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Kongsamutr, Navatasn. "Airline key change drivers and business environmental analysis in the Southeast Asia : strategic planning perspectives." Thesis, Cranfield University, 2010. http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/5727.
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This thesis is involved with exploration of key changes drivers and market
phenomena in the Southeast Asia and the development of new conceptual frameworks
for business environmental analysis of airlines. The research is constructed under the
phenomenology paradigm which adopts a coherentism approach and mainly takes
airline industry’s publications, statistics, and executives as units of analysis.
Hermeneutic phenomenology, a single-embedded case study, concurrent triangulation
mixed method, and grounded theory are all used as methodologies. Methods using
document reviews, interviews, and questionnaires are applied to surface the key
changes drivers, market phenomena and the perceptions of the importance of changes
factors. The collected data are analysed by content analysis, thematic analysis,
cognitive mapping analysis, constant comparative analysis and descriptive analysis to
classify, generalise and develop into proper forms.
The research reveals that ‘market’, ‘competition/strategy’, ‘regulation/policy’,
‘infrastructure/resource’, ‘cooperation’, ‘distribution’, ‘technology, and ‘broad’
factors are discovered as key change drivers. Their different importance levels are
measured by occurrences, density, centrality, and tail occurrences as root causes of
changes. The characteristics of their interrelationships are based on directional and
influential dimensions. There are 16 emerged changes/market phenomena and 11
generalised conceptual frameworks and 3 newly developed frameworks for analysing
the airline business environment. The quantitative findings from content analysis are
evaluated by inter-coder analysis which achieves kappa coefficient = 0.87 indicating
high reliability of the analysis. The qualitative findings are qualified through ten
criteria assessment of research quality. The deliverables provide both theoretical and
methodological contributions. The research limitations are found in some sources of
collected data and findings which are caused by scarce data availability and three
types of biases. The recommendations for future research into financial performance,
changes’ leading indicators and comparative in-depth study in other ASEAN
countries and regions are made.
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Lau, Wing Yan. "Two-person games on strategies of irreversible investment /." View Abstract or Full-Text, 2003. http://library.ust.hk/cgi/db/thesis.pl?MATH%202003%20LAUW.
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Briceñ̃o, Simón Ignacio. "A game-based decision support methodology for competitive systems design." Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/26671.
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Thesis (Ph.D)--Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009.Committee Chair: Mavris, Dimitri; Committee Member: Hollingsworth, Peter; Committee Member: Kavadias, Stylianos; Committee Member: Schrage, Daniel; Committee Member: Volovoi, Vitali. Part of the SMARTech Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Collection.
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Fredriksson, Charlotta. "Planning in the 'New Reality' : Strategic Elements and Approaches in Swedish Municipalities." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Urbana och regionala studier, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-44072.
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Central to this dissertation is a discourse in contemporary Swedish planning practice referred to as the ‘new reality’. The name of this discourse reflects the notion that planning practice interprets the conditions of today as differing from those which occurred previously. The urban landscape is perceived as increasingly complex, dynamic, and competitive, where strategic alliances must be built between municipalities and private and public actors at different levels. Both the influence of private actors and such factors as climate effects contribute to that much of what may happen in the future being experienced as uncertain and unpredictable. In this context of complexity, uncertainty, and governance, municipalities must find a way to manage planning tasks connected to the social, environmental, and economic dimensions of sustainability, tasks that may be at the same time interdependent and contradictory. The social and environmental dimensions of sustainability provide the municipality with a spectrum of tasks that range from local welfare tasks to national and global environmental and climate concerns, the time span ranges between short-term and long-term, and the degree of concreteness ranges from the specific to the vague. Furthermore, tasks connected to the wellbeing and safety concern not only the own citizens but also humankind in general, and both today and in the future. Tasks of economic sustainability are, in the ‘new reality’ discourse, closely connected to growth. As growth is regarded as desirable, the assumed situation of competition between cities, municipalities, regions and nations means that it is considered important to find ways to be attractive to both the market and to new potential citizens. That notwithstanding, municipalities must also handle the effects from growth. The starting point of the dissertation is that it is easier to make good decisions (short-term, emergent) based on previous decisions (long-term, structure), in order to make gains in terms of social, environmental and economic sustainability, but also to bring efficiency gains in development decisions. Legislation assumes that the comprehensive plan serves such a function – it should both constitute political decisions for future development, and a planning data that allows holistic assessments. However, today, in many municipalities, it does not function as such. With reference to recently revised planning legislation’s intention to strengthen the strategic role of the comprehensive plan, this dissertation elaborates upon a development of the comprehensive plan based on a strategic perspective. The dissertation contributes to knowledge by outlining a way in which comprehensive planning could be developed based on a strategic perspective, that could provide municipalities with a possibility for an active role in development within the conditions of the ‘new reality’ discourse. It does so by visualising the use of strategic elements and approaches in Swedish municipalities’ work with planning and development; the application of elements such as strategic contextual awareness, strategic selectiveness, strategic responsiveness, and strategic governance. Furthermore, as the design of the comprehensive planning process is discussed from the perspective of forums-arenas-courts (Healey, 1997; Bryson 2004), the view of what in fact is planning is expanded, thereby including formal as well as informal, visible as well as invisible, processes and decisions on different levels and with difference degrees of concreteness, that influence development. Comprehensive planning concerns a variety of processes that take place not in the planning game, but in the development game.QC 20111020
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Goss, Thomas J. "Building a contingency menu : using capabilities-based planning for Homeland Defense and Homeland Security /." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2005. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion/05Mar%5FGoss.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A. in Security Studies (Homeland Security and Defense))--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2005.Thesis Advisor(s): Paul Stockton. Includes bibliographical references (p. 69-72). Also available online.
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Aponte, Ludy Glenn. "A Grounded Theory Approach to Studying Strategic Planning in Higher Education: A Qualitative Research Methodology Utilizing the Literature Review and Interview." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1308566274.
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Kong, Jean Jin. "Topics on strategic games between two asymmetric firms and pricing of credit default swap by multi-variate rational lognormal model /." View abstract or full-text, 2006. http://library.ust.hk/cgi/db/thesis.pl?MATH%202006%20KONG.
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Mehta, Aranyak. "Algorithmic Game Theory." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/7220.
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The interaction of theoretical computer science with game theory and
economics has resulted in the emergence of two very interesting
research directions. First, it has provided a new model for algorithm
design, which is to optimize in the presence of strategic
behavior. Second, it has prompted us to consider the computational
aspects of various solution concepts from game theory, economics and
auction design which have traditionally been considered mainly in a
non-constructive manner. In this thesis we present progress along both
these directions. We first consider optimization problems that arise
in the design of combinatorial auctions. We provide an online
algorithm in the important case of budget-bounded utilities. This
model is motivated by the recent development of the business of online
auctions of search engine advertisements. Our algorithm achieves a
factor of $1-1/e$, via a new linear programming based technique to
determine optimal tradeoffs between bids and budgets. We also provide
lower bounds in terms of hardness of approximation in more general
submodular settings, via a PCP-based reduction. Second, we consider
truth-revelation in auctions, and provide an equivalence theorem
between two notions of strategy-proofness in randomized auctions of
digital goods. Last, we consider the problem of computing an
approximate Nash equilibrium in multi-player general-sum games, for
which we provide the first subexponential time algorithm.
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Ng, Kwok-kei Simon. "A game-theoretic study of the strategic interaction between transmission and generation expansion planning in a restructured electricity market." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2007. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B39343534.
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Ng, Kwok-kei Simon, and 吳國基. "A game-theoretic study of the strategic interaction between transmission and generation expansion planning in a restructuredelectricity market." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2007. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B39343534.
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Vasconcelos, Francisco Josà Mendes. "The EVALUATION AND PLANNING IN CONTRACTS AGROBUSINESS AS STRATEGIES OF UNCERTAINTY minimizing transaction costs." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2014. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=12724.
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The present study aimed to analyze the applicability of legal theories ImprevisÃo and avoidable damage in minimizing the effects of uncertainty in the agribusiness contracts. To examine such application, first, secondary data extracted from time series database of IBGE and IPEA-DATA in the estimation of an econometric model, where methods of time series, unit root test, test were employed were worked co-integration Johansen model vector error correction and variance decomposition of forecast errors. This econometric procedure aims to demonstrate margins of errors in the prognosis of future data. The sample period covers January 2007 to December 2011. As an additional function was taken concomitantly, a research field whose basic aim was to characterize the contractual relationship of an agribusiness production chain. The supply chain was chosen the culture of cashew in the state of CearÃ. The set of results in a systemic way, demonstrates that despite all the caring of economic agents in running a successful strategic planning within their productive activity, there is always a "gray area", under the impenetrable human perspective, imbued with extraordinary facts and unpredictable that when they occur, cause imbalance in contracts. This means that the fatality not envisioned by econometric methods, the legal instruments supplementing them in order to adjust the contracts, rebalancing them again.O presente trabalho se propÃs analisar a aplicabilidade das teorias jurÃdicas da ImprevisÃo e dos Danos evitÃveis na minimizaÃÃo dos efeitos da incerteza no contratos de agronegÃcio. Para examinar referida aplicaÃÃo, primeiramente, foram trabalhados dados secundÃrios extraÃdos de sÃries histÃricas do banco de dados do IBGE e IPEA-DATA na estimaÃÃo de um modelo economÃtrico, onde foram empregados mÃtodos de sÃries de tempo, teste de raiz unitÃria, teste de co-integraÃÃo de Johansen, modelo de vetor de correÃÃo de erros e decomposiÃÃo da variÃncia de erros de previsÃo. Tal procedimento economÃtrico tem o objetivo de demonstrar margens de erros no prognostico de dados futuros. O perÃodo analisado abrange janeiro de 2007 a dezembro de 2011. Em uma funÃÃo suplementar foi feita, concomitantemente, uma pesquisa de campo cujo intuito basilar foi caracterizar a relaÃÃo contratual de uma cadeia produtiva do agronegÃcio. A cadeia produtiva escolhida foi a cultura da castanha de caju no Estado do CearÃ. O conjunto de resultados, de forma sistÃmica, demonstra que, apesar de todo zelo dos agentes econÃmicos em executar um bom planejamento estratÃgico dentro de sua atividade produtiva, sempre hà uma âzona obscuraâ, impenetrÃvel sob a Ãtica humana, impregnada de fatos extraordinÃrios e imprevisÃveis que, quando de sua ocorrÃncia, causam desequilÃbrio nos contratos. Isso significa que, na fatalidade nÃo antevista pelos mÃtodos economÃtricos, os instrumentos jurÃdicos suplementando-os, de forma a reajustar os contratos, reequilibrando-os novamente.
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Briceño, Simón Ignacio. "A game-based decision support methodology for competitive systems design." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/26671.
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This dissertation describes the development of a game-based methodology that facilitates the exploration and selection of research and development (R&D) projects under uncertain competitive scenarios. The proposed method provides an approach that analyzes competitor positioning and formulates response strategies to forecast the impact of technical design choices on a project's market performance. A critical decision in the conceptual design phase of propulsion systems is the selection of the best architecture, centerline, core size, and technology portfolio. A key objective of this research is to examine how firm characteristics such as their relative differences in completing R&D projects, differences in the degree of substitutability between different project types, and first/second-mover advantages affect their product development strategies. Several quantitative methods are investigated that analyze business and engineering strategies concurrently. In particular, formulations based on the well-established mathematical field of game theory are introduced to obtain insights into the project selection problem. The use of game theory is explored in this research as a method to assist the selection process of R&D projects in the presence of imperfect market information. The proposed methodology focuses on two influential factors: the schedule uncertainty of project completion times and the uncertainty associated with competitive reactions. A normal-form matrix is created to enumerate players, their moves and payoffs, and to formulate a process by which an optimal decision can be achieved. The non-cooperative model is tested using the concept of a Nash equilibrium to identify potential strategies that are robust to uncertain market fluctuations (e.g: uncertainty in airline demand, airframe requirements and competitor positioning). A first/second-mover advantage parameter is used as a scenario dial to adjust market rewards and firms' payoffs. The methodology is applied to a commercial aircraft engine selection study where engine firms must select an optimal engine project for development. An engine modeling and simulation framework is developed to generate a broad engine project portfolio. The proposed study demonstrates that within a technical design environment, a rational and analytical means of modeling project development strategies is beneficial in high market risk situations.
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Nitta, Ryo. "The focus-on-form effects of strategic and on-line planning : an analysis of Japanese oral performance and verbal reports." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2007. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/59397/.
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Within the framework of task-based language learning, there has been much research on planning, under the premise that learners' language would be enhanced in planned conditions. However, the underlying mechanisms ofthis rationale have not been fully explored. To develop the present understanding, this study aims to explore the nature of planning and the psycholinguistic mechanisms of its effects on L2 performance. Earlier planning research has tended to focus on 'strategic planning' (i.e., a period of time given prior to a task), suggesting that it may improve learners' language in terms of fluency and complexity but not always in accuracy (e.g., Crookes, 1989, Foster & Skehan, 1996). In response to this, Yuan and Ellis (2003) propose 'on-line planning' (i.e., on-line processing pressure is lessened to allow active formulation and monitoring) and show its positive effect on accuracy as well as complexity. Building on these previous studies, the purpose of this research is to investigate the different form-focused effects between strategic and on-line planning. The study takes a process-product approach to planning by using a quantitative analysis of oral performance and a qualitative analysis of post-task verbal reports, prompted by stimulated recall, under non-planning, strategic planning and on-line planning conditions. The analysis of the performance of twenty-seven Japanese learners of English (grouped as high vs. low proficiency levels) demonstrates the positive effects of strategic planning on complexity and those of on-line planning on complexity and accuracy. Most importantly, different planning effects on specific accuracy measures were observed between different proficiency groups - verb forms in the low-proficiency and articles in the high-proficiency group. To complement the results of the performance analysis, the examination of verbal reports presents participants' planning processes. To support the improvement in accuracy in on-line planning, the analysis reveals that pressured conditions (i.e., non-planning and strategic planning) made participants prioritize meaning over form; on the other hand, on-line planning tended to push them into more complex structures while maintaining certain attention to accuracy. Drawing on pedagogical considerations offocus-on-form instruction, this thesis argues that strategic planning and on-line planning have different degrees of form-focused effects. In particular, on-line planning, beyond a simple improvement of accuracy, would increase consciousness of form and bring L2 learners to deeper, syntactic processing. It is suggested that some kind of on-line planning would be useful for developing learners' abilities of syntactic formulation.
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Garcia, Dominie. "Process and Outcome Factors of Enterprise Transformation: A Study of the Retail Sector." Diss., Available online, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006, 2006. http://etd.gatech.edu/theses/available/etd-05242006-140945/.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007.Branislav Vidakovic, Committee Member ; Chip White, Committee Member ; Amy Pritchett, Committee Member ; Ken Boff, Committee Member ; William B. Rouse, Committee Member.
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Habtay, Solomon Russom. "Enabling industry inflection and corporate innovation : utilising complexity thinking for innovative strategic management." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/53407.
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Thesis (MComm)--Stellenbosch University, 2003.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In the new economy, many industries - more specifically those that can be replaced electronically - are generally believed to be in peril of strategic inflection points. Scrutiny of available researches on the drivers of discontinuity indicates that some strategic inflection points can be foreseen, but many cannot be anticipated, because initially inflection points emerge very small, and can often be missed, but then they suddenly strike hard without warning. A strategic point of inflection occurs when existing ways of doing business and industry structure subtly but profoundly change. This study proposed to review the application of the complexity theory to strategic management for enabling industry inflection and corporate innovation. The study describes a couple-phased complexity approach for enabling industry inflection. The first phase starts by building organisational fitness through designing complex adaptive systems, internal to the organisation, and nurturing healthy co-evolution with external key players. The application of "communities of practice" into complex adaptive systems of organisational design is demonstrated as an essential means to drive the organization to the edge of chaos through which new businesses may evolve that can potentially trigger an inflection point. The co-evolutionary approach is explained as a process to develop patterns of co-adaptation with key players, whereby co-adapters collaborate to adapt effectively, although they still remain free to compete for a prime-movers hip position. This is hypothetically postulated to be space transition at the edge of chaos at the socio-cultural business system level, where active members, driven by the moving self-organization, engage in exploratory dialogue to explore space possibilities for systemic innovations. The second phase is described in four strategic stages for enabling industry inflection and corporate innovation. The strategic inflection point begins with a definition of a customer value proposition. This leads to the co-experimentation stage where co-creators jointly experiment with diverse new business models comprising a variety of customer value propositions that appeal to different segments. The success of new business model may cause industry inflection, subsequently leading to the third stage where the inflection point creates uncertainty to both the co-creators and their competitors, because the final success of a proactive strategic inflection point depends on the market dynamics. The salient conclusion of this study is that the complexity theory does not guarantee the complete success of a proactive strategy for enabling industry inflection. An inflection point can barely result from a deliberate strategic process only. Neither is a strategic inflection point a function of perfectly unexplainable market factors. Recommendations have been provided for further research to address, among others, the conceptual gap between the scientific analysis and the non-linear assumption of the complexity theory.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Daar word in die hedendaagse ekonomie algemeen aanvaar dat baie nywerhede - in die besonder dié wat elektronies vervang kan word - gevaar loop van strategiese invalspunte. Noukeurige ondersoek van beskikbare navorsing oor die aanvoorders van diskontinuïteit dui daarop dat sommige strategiese invalspunte verwag kan word, maar baie kan nie geantisipeer word nie, aangesien invalspunte aanvanklik baie klein voorkom, en dan dikwels misgekyk kan word, maar dan slaan hulle vinnig toe, sonder waarskuwing. 'n Strategiese invalspunt kom voor wanneer bestaande maniere van sake doen en die struktuur van die industrie subtiel, maar wesenlik verander. Met hierdie navorsing is beoog om 'n oorsig te kry van die toepassing van die kompleksiteitsteorie op strategiese bestuur ten einde geleentheid te verskaf vir industrieinfleksie en korporatiewe innovering. Die navorsing beskryf 'n aantal gefaseerde kompleksiteitsbenaderings om industrie-infleksie aan te help. Die eerste fase begin met die opbou van organisatoriese geskiktheid deur die ontwerp van komplekse aanpasbaarheidstelsels wat intern aan die organisasie is en deur die kweek van gesonde koevolusie met eksterne sleutelrolspelers. Die toepassing van "algemeen aanvaarde praktyk" in komplekse aanpasbaarheidstelsels van organisatoriese ontwerp word gedemonstreer as 'n essensiële middelom die organisasie tot op die rand van chaos te dryf waardeur nuwe ondernemings kan ontwikkel wat moontlik 'n invalspunt kan veroorsaak. Die ko-evolusionêre benadering word verduidelik as 'n proses om patrone vir ko-adaptasie met sleutelrolspelers te ontwikkel, waardeur medebewerkers saamwerk om doeltreffend aan te pas, alhoewel hulle steeds vry is om vir 'n posisie as hoofkragbron mee te ding. Daar word hipoteties gepostuleer dat dit paradigmatiese oorgang op die rand van chaos op die sosiokulturele sakevlak is, waar aktiewe lede, gedryf deur die vinnig bewegende self-organisasie, betrokke raak by verkennende dialoog om die paradigmatiese moontlikhede vir sistemiese innovering te verken. Die tweede fase word in vier strategiese stadia beskryf om industrie-infleksie en korporatiewe innovering moontlik te maak. Die strategiese invalspunt begin met 'n definisie van 'n aanbieding van kliëntwaarde. Dit lei tot die ko-eksperimentele stadium waar medeskeppers gesamentlik eksperimenteer met diverse nuwe sakemodelle wat bestaan uit variasies op aanbiedings van kliëntwaarde wat vir verskillende segmente aanloklik is. Die sukses van 'n nuwe sakemodel kan moontlik industrie-infleksie veroorsaak, wat dan lei tot die derde stadium waar die invalspunt onsekerheid skep vir die medeskeppers en hulle mededingers, aangesien die finale sukses van 'n proaktiewe strategiese invalspunt van die markdinamiek afhanklik is. Die belangrikste gevolgtrekking na aanleiding van hierdie navorsmg IS dat die kompleksiteitsteorie nie die algehele sukses van 'n proaktiewe strategie verseker om industrie-infleksie te bemagtig nie. 'n Invalspunt kan beswaarlik slegs uit 'n doelbewuste industrie-infleksie voortspruit. Die strategiese invalspunt is ook nie 'n funksie van volkome onverklaarbare markfaktore nie. Aanbevelings word gemaak vir verdere navorsing wat aandag kan gee aan, onder andere, die konseptueie gaping tussen die wetenskaplike analise en die nie-lineêre aanname van die kompleksiteitsteorie.
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Charlton, Andrea, and n/a. "Towards outcome evaluation : a study of public relations evaluation in the Australian Federal Government, 1995." University of Canberra. Communication, Media & Tourism, 1996. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20060627.133808.
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The Australian Federal government has well-defined guidelines for undertaking
program evaluations. Advertising and Public Relations campaigns support
program aims, and are subject to the same guidelines. However, an examination
of actual practice in the Australian Federal government, as observed by the Office
of Government Information and Advertising in Canberra, suggests that there are
significant differences in the extent to which Public Relations campaigns, as
opposed to advertising campaigns, are systematically evaluated.
Evaluation theory, Public Relations theory, strategic planning theory, and public
administration theory provide insights into methods of managing and reporting
on communication campaigns designed to forward government objectives. A
literature review and an assessment of existing models of Public Relations
evaluation were undertaken, and a synthesis of several theoretical and practical
approaches led to the construction of a model of Public Relations evaluation
which could be applied to Australian government communication campaigns.
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Pearse, Noel. "Balancing leadership patterns to promote sense of community during cell-church transitioning: a grounded theory of strategic leadership and change." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003307.
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The aim of this research was to develop a substantive grounded theory describing the process of change and the management of organizational inertia, or resistance to change, by strategic leaders transitioning churches from a programme-based to a cell-based model. The grounded theory was developed using the conventions of the Straussian version of the grounded theory method, and relying largely upon the collection of incidents through interviews with leaders of churches that embarked upon the cell-church transition. In all, 38 interviews were conducted with leaders of churches representing a range of denominations located in a number of provinces in South Africa. Based on the premise that substantive theories are contextually bound rather than context free, the contextual characteristics of this study are highlighted. Drawing from organizational theory, it is recognised that churches can be conceptualised as solidary organizations, normative organizations, congregations and voluntary organizations or associations. Viewing churches as solidary organizations highlights the role of solidary rewards in the change process, while viewing them as congregations, emphasises their religious character. Furthermore, the context of the study is embedded in the nature of the specific type of change being embarked upon, as represented by the cell-church transition. Drawing on concepts derived from the change management literature, the type of change I investigated, I classified as intangible, episodic, teleological, second-order change, highlighting the importance of social interaction. The grounded theory that was constructed describes the phases of the change process, and how the actions of leaders interact with the sense of community of the church. Three effective patterns of leadership were identified (i.e. the freewheeler, the focused-pioneer and the reflexive-accommodator) along with their ineffective counterparts (i.e. the static non-leader, the rigid combatant and the popular people pleaser). It was argued that effective leadership involves balancing the three effective patterns over time, and that a failure to achieve this balance produced an ineffective pattern. Furthermore, ineffective leadership damaged the credibility of leaders, as their actions harmed the sense of community. A loss of credibility compromised the leader’s ability to lead change. A number of approaches to understanding organizational inertia or resistance to change were examined in an attempt to locate the grounded theory in the literature and to use the literature to shed light on the findings of this study. While this literature did provide some useful insights and confirmations, no single theoretical perspective seemed to supply a comprehensive explanation. Instead, social capital theory offered a more encompassing explanation, and as such, showed much promise as a body of literature that can be used to develop an understanding of organizational change. Finally, recommendations are made for future research and the value of this research is discussed.
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Dever, Kelly Ann. "Partners in Prevention of Substance Abuse (PIPSA) theory of change a formative evaluation in implementing community anti-drug coalitions of America's strategic planning framework /." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2006. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0015725.
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Larsson, Amanda, and Elinor Arnstedt. "Vart är vi på väg? : En kvalitativ studie av strategiska ledares möjlighet att planera inför framtiden." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för handel och företagande, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-19935.
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Bakgrund: Ledare behöver ofta ta ställning till och hantera nya digitala verktyg. Oftast faller de företag som inte hänger med i digitaliseringens snabba svängar mellan stolarna. Även ledarskapet genomgår en omvandling i och med digitaliseringen. Enkelheten i att kommunicera och dela information bidrar till att utmana hierarkier och funktioner i organisationer. Nu ökar användningen av teknik, inte minst på grund av den pågående Covid-19-pandemin. Det krävs av ledare att hitta nya sätt att fatta beslut på när arbetssituationen inte längre ser likadan ut som tidigare. Med hjälp av scenarioplanering kan ledare förbereda sig på de mer komplicerade besluten. En scenarioplanering handlar om att planera för möjliga utfall i framtiden baserat på det man vet i nuläget. Genom att skildra möjliga utfall hinner ledare planera och förbereda sig om något av dem inträffar. Syfte: Syftet med uppsatsen är att närmare undersöka vilken påverkan den ökade digitaliseringen kommer få på framtidens ledarroll samt att bidra till en ökad förståelse för hur digitaliseringen förändrar synen på ledarskap och rollen som ledare. Frågeställning: Hur kommer digitaliseringen påverka framtidens ledarskap? Hur kan ledare fatta beslut för att anpassa sig till digitaliseringens utveckling? Hur kan scenarioplanering användas som verktyg för att underlätta ledares beslutsfattande? Metod: Arbetet utgår från en abduktiv ansats med växelverkan mellan teori och empiri. Det empiriska resultatet är framtaget genom kvalitativa semistrukturerade intervjuer som sedan transkriberats och genomgått en form av tematisk analys där likheter och skillnader i intervjuerna pekats ut. Empiri och resultat: Empirin utgörs av intervjuer av experter respektive ledare. Expertintervjuerna bidrog till skapandet av scenariokorset och ledarintervjuerna bidrog med ett arbetslivsperspektiv på scenarierna. De fyra scenarier som tagits fram baseras på drivkrafterna kontroll och användning av framtida teknik. När scenarierna diskuterades med ledarna tog de bland annat upp att de hade föredragit mellanvarianter på scenarierna framför ett renodlat scenario. Slutsats: Genom att skapa scenarier svarar uppsatsen på hur digitaliseringen kan påverka framtidens ledarskap. Ledarna såg hellre en kombination av två scenarier istället för att ett scenario inträffar. Med kontinuerligt arbete kan scenarioplanering vara ett effektivt verktyg i den strategiska planeringen och beslutsfattandet.Background: Leaders often need to take a stand on and manage new digital tools. Most often, the companies that do not keep up with the rapid turns of digitalization fall between the cracks. Leadership is also undergoing a transformation with digitalization. The simplicity of communicating and sharing information helps to challenge hierarchies and functions in organizations. Now the use of technology is increasing, not least due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Leaders are required to find new ways to make decisions when the work situation no longer looks the same as before. With the help of scenario planning, leaders can prepare for the more complicated decisions. Scenario planning is about planning for possible outcomes in the future based on what is known at present. By depicting possible outcomes, leaders have time to plan and prepare if any of them occur. Purpose: The purpose of the essay is to investigate in more detail the impact that increased digitalization will have on the future leadership role and to contribute to an increased understanding of how digitalisation changes the view of leadership and the role as a leader. Issue: How will digitalization affect future leadership? How can leaders make decisions to adapt to the development of digitalization? How can scenario planning be used as a tool to facilitate leaders' decision-making? Method: The work is based on an abductive approach with an interaction between theory and empiricism. The empirical result is produced through qualitative semi-structured interviews which then were transcribed and underwent a form of thematic analysis where similarities and differences in the interviews were pointed out. Empirical data and results: The empirical data consists of interviews with experts and leaders. The expert interviews contributed to the creation of the scenario cross and the leader interviews contributed with a working life perspective on the scenarios. The four scenarios developed are based on the driving forces of control and use of future technology. When the scenarios were discussed with the leaders, they mentioned, among other things, that they had preferred intermediate variants of the scenarios over a pure scenario. Conclusion: By creating scenarios, the essay responds to how digitalisation can affect future leadership. Leaders would rather see a combination of two scenarios instead of one scenario occurring. With continuous work, scenario planning can be an effective tool in strategic planning and decision-making.
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Sones, Ronald T. "Development of a Theoretical Model Based Upon Factors Influencing a Firm's Suitability for Organizational Evolution." Also available to VCU users online at:, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10156/1397.
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Stringer, Kimberly Ann. "Organizational Accessibility and Community Connections: Examining Changes in the Spatial Proximity of Pubic Housing Residents to Social Service Providers and Providers' Responses to Redevelopment." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2009. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/communication_theses/48.
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Public housing structures that are deemed “severely distressed” are being demolished and replaced with mixed-income developments. The current study examines the role that social service organizations play in the relocation of public housing residents. Service organizations tend to locate in areas anchored by public housing complexes where the need for their services is immense. Organizations that lose clients due to relocations run the risk of losing the funding they get for serving that population. GIS mapping and semi-structured interviews were used to answer questions about how redevelopment affects the communication infrastructures of public housing residents. GIS mapping was used to determine how services are spatially distributed in relation to public housing developments in Atlanta. Representatives from a sample of those organizations located near current and former public housing locations were interviewed to examine if a strategic communication plan is in place to retain connections with clients during the relocation process.
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Seoudi, Iman A. "The Resource Capability Competence Perspective in Strategic Management: A Re-Appraisal of the Epistemological and Theoretical Foundations." Cleveland, Ohio : Case Western Reserve University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1230652283.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Case Western Reserve University, 2008Ecomonics Department, Weatherhead School of Management Abstract Title from OhioLINK abstract screen (viewed on 10 April 2009) Available online via the OhioLINK ETD Center
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Roux, C. H. "The contribution of strategic management and organisational development theory, models and practice to the effectiveness of local churches : a study on a selected sample of South African urban and suburban churches at congregational level." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/50470.
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Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2005.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The idea of deliberately planning and measuring the work of congregations does not settle easily with many church leaders and theologians. This study suggests that churches are becoming increasingly socially ineffective because they do not understand and apply scientific management knowledge and methods. Strongly held ideologies and dichotomies characterise the milieu of this topic. There remains a very real social problem concerning the role of churches. That is what this study has based its relevance on. The study is encouragingly supported by its finding that 90% of church leaders surveyed, disagreed with the notion that the church has no responsibility to society at large for its actions. 92% of respondents further agreed that the role of the church is the well-being and upliftment of its communities and not just to create converts. This study presents evidence that questions the success claims of the Church Growth body of knowledge. Evangelism world-wide has recently experienced the most extraordinary acceleration in the number of conversions in the history of the Church, but research in the countries where this phenomenon has been more prevalent, has found little equivalent growth in church membership. The work of researchers in the USA has repeatedly drawn attention to the alarming levels of "unchurched" Christians and the falling away of Pentecostal churches. This study confirms the trend in South Africa and reveals our unchurched level to be 53%. Analysis of congregational development interventions attempted by the sample reveals an almost three times greater success rate reported by churches that did not apply the church growth principles or combined them with management methods. The aim is to present explanations and solutions for the difficulties churches are having both in the areas of managing their own development and in retaining committed members for a nobler purpose than to laud their size over smaller, but possibly more caring and socially effective churches. An objective of this study is to present existing knowledge and methods from the field of management science as a conceptual framework for systematically fitting disconnected elements of contemporary Church Growth Theory into a holistic and integrated development approach that goes deeper than a mere mechanistic extrapolation of theoretical ideas and praxis from one context into another. The survey found a 74% support base from the South African church leaders surveyed for a synthesis of the best of both Church Growth and business management methods in fulfilment of its mission. The most compelling finding that this research contributes to social knowledge, however, is that local churches found to have reported significantly more externally focused growth such as evangelism, community work and church planting, applied strategic thinking, formal planning and management methods to their development without compromising the Gospel message that the Church is called bring to society.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie beweer dat kerke word meer sosiaal oneffektief omdat hulle nie wetenskaplike bestuurskennis verstaan en metodiek toepas nie. Dit is waarop hierdie studie se relevansie gebaseer is. Die studie is bemoedigend ondersteun deur die bevinding dat 90% van die kerkleiers wat aan die ondersoek deelgeneem het, nie met die mening saamstem dat die kerk geen verantwoordelikheid teenoor die gemeenskap in sy geheel het en daartoe bydra nie. 92% van die respondente het ook saamgestem dat die rol van die kerk is om by te dra tot die opheffing en welgesteldheid van die gemeenskap, en nie net om bekeerlinge te skep nie. Hierdie studie lewer bewys wat die sukses-aansprake van die Kerkgroei Beweging teenspreek. Wereldwye evangelasie het onlangs 'n buitengewone versnelling ondervind in die aantaI bekeerlinge in die geskiedenis van die kerk, maar navorsing toon dat in die lande waar hierdie verskynsel die sterkste voorgekom het, baie min ekwivalente groei in kerklidrnaatskap plaasgevind het. Hierdie studie bevestig die tendens in Suid Afrika en wys dat ons vlak van ongekerktes op 53% staan. Ontleding van die gemeente se ontwikkellings-intervensies wat deur die kerke in die proefskrif onderneem is, wys dat kerke wat nie kerkgroei beginsels toegepas het nie, of hierdie met bestuursmetodes kombineer, amper drie maal groter sukses behaal het. Die doeI is om verduidelikings en oplossings aan te bied vir die probleme wat kerke in beide die areas om hul eie ontwikkeling te bestuur asook die toegewyde lede te behou vir 'n meer eerbare doel as om af te kyk op kleiner, maar moontlik meer sorgsame en sosiaaI effektiewe kerke. 'n Doel van hierdie studie is om bestaande kennis en metodes in die bestuurswetenskappe as 'n konseptuele raamwerk aan te bied vir die sistematiese passing van ontwrigtende elemente van kontemporere Kerkgroei Teorie binne 'n holistiese en geintegreerde ontwikkelingsbenadering wat dieper gaan as sIegs die meganistiese ekstrapolering van teoretiese idees en praktyk van een konteks na 'n ander. Die navorsing het 'n ondersteuningsbasis van 74% bevind onder die Suid Afrikaanse kerkleiers wat aan die ondersoek deeIgeneem het, vir 'n sintese van die beste van beide kerkgroei en besigheidsbestuursmetodes in vervulling van die kerk se missie. Die mees afdwingbare bevinding wat hierdie navorsing bydra tot sosiale kennis is egter dat plaaslike kerke wat aansienlik meer in eksterne areas van evangelasie, gemeenskapwerk en kerkplanting groei, het toegepaste strategiese denke, formele beplanning en bestuursmetodes aangewend sonder om die Evangeliese boodskap waarvoor die kerk geroepe is om aan die gemeenskap te bring, te kompromitteer.
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Cerezer, Leonardo Menna Barreto. "O processo de institucionalização do planejamento estratégico no Tribunal de Contas do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/168832.
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Em setembro de 1997, foi designada uma comissão de estudos para a implantação do Programa de Qualidade Total no Tribunal de Contas do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul (TCE-RS). Era o início da implantação de práticas gerenciais no TCE-RS. Reformas na gestão pública emergiram nesse período por uma mudança na concepção de gestão do Estado, redefinindo, ao menos em parte, as estruturas de organização do Estado. O planejamento estratégico ganhou força na esfera pública brasileira a partir de 1994, no âmbito das reformas. Diante dessa conjuntura, ocorreu a implantação do planejamento estratégico (PE) no TCE-RS em 2002. Esta pesquisa estuda o processo de institucionalização do PE neste órgão público, adotando a perspectiva neoinstitucional de análise. A revisão teórica contemplou a teoria neoinstitucional, apontando para o processo de institucionalização. Concomitantemente, procedeu-se à análise documental para reconstituir a trajetória do fenômeno estudado. Também foram realizadas entrevistas com servidores públicos que participaram do processo de institucionalização do planejamento estratégico no TCE-RS. Como critério de análise e compreensão do processo de institucionalização do planejamento estratégico no TCE-RS, foi adotado, como escala de medida, o resultado conjunto dos efeitos observáveis das seis dimensões propostas por Tolbert e Zucker (1999): processos, características dos adotantes, ímpeto para difusão, atividade de teorização, variância na implementação e taxa de fracasso estrutural. A análise conjunta das dimensões possibilitou compreender o processo de institucionalização e aproximá-lo ao estágio de total institucionalização, contemplando o objetivo geral da pesquisa. os objetivos alcançados, ainda que dentro dos limites desta dissertação. Uma limitação importante da pesquisa diz respeito ao fato de terem sido contemplados somente agentes internos ao órgão, com entrevistas restritas aos atores envolvidos no processo analisado, o que pode ter resultado enviesado. Ainda, a tentativa de recuperar a trajetória do processo via análise documental, pode ter seu resultado questionado. Essas limitações, acrescidas do fato de não ter sido possível, dado o estreito cronograma, avançar a análise ao nível do campo organizacional do TCE-RS, abrem caminho para a sua continuidade.Program at Tribunal de Contas do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul (TCE-RS). It was the the beginning of the implantation of managerial practices in the TCE-RS. Reforms in public management emerged during this period by a change in the conception of state management, redefining, at least in part, the structures of state organization. Strategic planning has gained strength in the brazilian public scenery since 1994, within the scope of the reforms. Given this situation, strategic planning was implemented in the TCE-RS in 2002. This research studies the process of institutionalization of the strategic planning in this public organization, adopting the neoinstitutional perspective of analysis. The theoretical revision contemplated the neoinstitutional theory, pointing to the process of institutionalization. At the same time, a documentary analysis was made to reconstruct the trajectory of the studied phenomenon. Furthermore, interviews were also conducted with public servants who participated in the process of institutionalizing strategic planning in TCE-RS. As a criterion of analysis and understanding of the process of institutionalization of strategic planning in TCE-RS, the joint result of the observable effects of the six dimensions proposed by Tolbert and Zucker (1999) was adopted as a measurement scale: processes, characteristics of the adopters, impetus for diffusion, theorizing activity, variance in implementation, and structural failure rate. The joint analysis of the dimensions made it possible to understand the institutionalization process and bring it closer to the stage of total institutionalization, contemplating the general objective of the research. With this, it is considered that the research problem was adequately answered, and the objectives achieved, although within the limits of this study. An important limitation of the research is that only internal agents were considered, with interviews restricted to the actors involved in the analyzed process, which may have skewed result. Yet, the attempt to recover the trajectory of the process through documentary analysis, may have its result questioned. These limitations, added by the fact that it was not possible, given the narrow schedule, to advance the analysis at the level of the organizational field of the TCE-RS, open the way for its continuity.
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Costa, Eliezer Arantes da. "Matriz de jogos estrategicos : novo modelo para representação e estudo de conflito de interesses." [s.n.], 2008. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/260673.
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Orientadores: Celso Pascoli BotturaTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Eletrica e de Computação
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Resumo: O objetivo desta pesquisa é o desenvolvimento de um novo modelo conceitual para representação, de uma forma integrada, das mais diversas situações de conflito de interesses, como uma base para análise e projeto de controle de sistemas hierárquicos multiagentes, e para o aprimoramento da metodologia de capacitação de executivos para a administração estratégica desses conflitos. O método utilizado para esta pesquisa foi um investigação das condicionantes análogas presentes nos quatro jogos clássicos da Teoria dos Jogos ¿ Nash, Stackelberg, Pareto e Minimax ¿ buscando, entre eles, as características semelhantes e as peculiaridades que realmente os fazem semelhantes e distintos entre si. Desta investigação, foram identificadas duas dimensões diferenciadoras, que possibilitaram a concepção e a construção de uma matriz para representação desses jogos, de uma forma integrada. O modelo conceitual resultante desta pesquisa fornece um esquema analítico abrangente, inspirado na teoria dos jogos, e é usado para explicar, descrever, interpretar e prever os comportamentos dos diversos agentes autônomos envolvidos em situações de conflito de interesses e, em certos casos, prescrever decisões mais adequadas. A Matriz de Jogos Estratégicos (MJE), proposta e utilizada neste trabalho, estabelece um quadro de referência conceitual, mapeando seis diferentes tipos de jogos. Nela, os pressupostos dos modelos clássicos de jogos citados, e outros em casos-limite, são usados de forma integrada e complementar. São tratados, na MJE, jogos competitivos e cooperativos, jogos equilibrados e não-equilibrados, levando em conta tanto a postura concorrencial de cada jogador como o seu pressuposto de relação-de-forças. A MJE contempla de forma inovativa o tratamento de múltiplos subjogos estratégicos simultâneos entre os agentes envolvidos. A aplicação dos conceitos da MJE a complexos sistemas ¿ hierárquicos ou não ¿, com múltiplos agentes inteligentes interativos autônomos, provê uma metodologia de utilidade para análise e projeto de estratégias de controle. Parte importante deste estudo é a realização de experimentos exploratórios com propósito pedagógico. Esses jogos de empresa, realizados via computador, indicam que os participantes ampliam sua percepção para compreender os diversos jogos a jogar, e sua habilidade para atuar em cada um deles. Este uso da MJE leva cada participante a analisar situações de conflito de interesses e a melhor escolher suas decisões estratégicas: Através de um processo dinâmico interativo de tentativa e erro, ele ou ela acaba aprendendo a tomar melhores decisões, levando em conta as possíveis decisões dos demais agentes envolvidos bem como sua avaliação das conseqüências de suas escolhas. Palavras-chave: Matriz de Jogos Estratégicos; teoria dos jogos; jogos estratégicos; jogos de empresas; controle multiagente; gestão de conflitos; planejamento estratégico; gestão estratégica; simulação de empresas; treinamento gerencial; jogos hierárquicos
Abstract: The objective of the current research is the development of a new conceptual model aiming to represent, in an integrated manner, the many situations of conflict of interests as a basis for analysis and design of hierarchical multiagent systems control and for the improvement of the methodology for betterment of the managers¿ skills to deal with the strategic management of such conflicts. The investigation method used was a comparative analysis of the unique characteristics of classical games from Game Theory ¿ Nash, Stackelberg, Pareto, and Minimax ¿ searching, among them, their commonalities and differentiations. This investigation identified two distinct dimensions that enabled the conception and construction of a matrix to represent, in a integrated form, those four games mentioned above. The resulting conceptual model provides a comprehensive analytical scheme, inspired in the theory of games, and is used to explain, describe, interpret and forecast behaviors of autonomous agents involved in situations of conflict of interests and, in some cases, to prescribe the more adequate decisions. The Strategic Games Matrix (SGM) proposed and used in this study establishes a conceptual reference framework mapping six different types of games. In it, the assumptions for classic game models, among others for limitcases, are used in an integrated and complementary manner. The SGM deals with both competitive and cooperative games, as well as balanced and unbalanced ones, taking into consideration both the players' competitive postures and the powerratio assumed by each one. The SGM contemplates in an innovative way the treatment of multiple simultaneous strategic sub-games among the agents involved. The application of the SGM concepts to complex systems ¿ hierarchical or not ¿, with multiple autonomous intelligent interactive agents, provides a methodology of utility for analysis and design of their control strategies. An important part of this study is the exploratory experiments with pedagogical purpose. Such business games, played in a computer, indicate that the participants increase their perception to understand the various games to play, and their ability to act at each one of them. This use of the SGM leads each participant to analyze conflict of interests¿ situations and to improve its strategic decisions: Through an interactive dynamic process of trial and error he/she ends up learning how to make better decisions taking into consideration the likely decisions of the other agents involved as well as her/his evaluation of the consequences of their choices. Keywords: Strategic Games Matrix; game theory; strategic games; business games; multi-agent control; conflict management; strategic planning; strategic management; business simulation; managers training; hierarchical games
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Frazzon, Lorenzo Sanfelice. "MODELO DE PLANEJAMENTO ECONÔMICO COMO SUPORTE AO PLANEJAMENTO ESTRATÉGICO PESSOAL." Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, 2013. http://repositorio.ufsm.br/handle/1/8259.
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Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível SuperiorNowadays, the personal planning is a very important tool for individuals who seek a better quality of life, when planning the economic field becomes a large array of successful planning. For in addition to measuring personal success, supports the search for new goals, as well as enables ensure tranquility that reflects the financial well-being. In this context, the present study is to develop a Model of Economic Planning, to optimize the management of personal wealth, protecting and enhancing the heritage accumulated return on investment, according to the objectives, constraints and needs of the individual. The study was based on the model of Strategic Planning (ESTRADA, 2007), the model of Personal Planning (ESTRADA, 2011), the Modern Theory of Finance and Investment Management Models that address the key aspects for the development and maintenance s personal assets. The methodology consisted in a qualitative research with exploratory objective and descriptive. For the study design was used for literature review and survey. A description and critical analysis of the literature review allowed us to establish the essential elements for the development of the Model Economic Planning. The model consists of four steps that must be developed sequentially, the steps of the model are: Assessment, Formulation, Implementation and Monitoring, and their respective phases. It was also performed to evaluate the profile of the investor using the Item Response Theory (IRT), which proved to be possible calibrate the items to measure the degree of risk tolerance.
Atualmente, o planejamento pessoal é uma ferramenta de suma importância para os indivíduos que buscam uma melhor qualidade de vida, ao se planejar, o campo econômico torna-se um grande vetor de sucesso do planejamento. Pois além de medir o sucesso pessoal, dá suporte na busca de novos objetivos, assim como possibilita garantir uma tranqüilidade financeira que reflete no bem-estar pessoal. Neste contexto, o presente estudo consiste em desenvolver um Modelo de Planejamento Econômico, para otimizar a gestão da riqueza pessoal, protegendo o patrimônio acumulado e potencializando a rentabilidade dos investimentos, conforme os objetivos, restrições e necessidades do indivíduo. Este estudo tomou como base o modelo de modelo de Planejamento Estratégico Pessoal (ESTRADA, 2011), a Teoria das Finanças Modernas e os Modelos de Gestão de Investimentos, que abordam os aspectos determinantes para o desenvolvimento e manutenção do patrimônio pessoal. A metodologia constituiu-se em uma pesquisa de natureza qualitativa, com objetivo exploratório e descritivo. Para o delineamento do estudo, foi utilizada à pesquisa bibliográfica e o levantamento (Survey). A descrição e análise crítica da revisão bibliográfica permitiu estabelecer os elementos essenciais para a elaboração do Modelo de Planejamento Econômico. O modelo desenvolvido é composto de quatro etapas que devem ser desenvolvidas de forma sequencial, as etapas do modelo são: Avaliação, Formulação, Implementação e Monitoramento, além de suas respectivas fases. Também foi realizado a avaliação do perfil do investidor com o uso da Teoria da Resposta ao Item (TRI), que demonstrou ser possível calibrar os itens para medir o grau de tolerância ao risco.
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SANTOS, Thiago Ferreira Dantas. "Análise SWOT sistêmica." Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, 2014. https://repositorio.ufpe.br/handle/123456789/17149.
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Este trabalho visa criar uma conexão teórica entre o método SWOT e os princípios do pensamento sistêmico, de modo a melhorar a compreensão da dinâmica de forças do sistema no qual se pretende intervir, fazendo um grafo com os fatores do SWOT e estabelecendo as relações sistêmicas entre eles. A partir deste grafo, buscam-se os mapas e arquétipos sistêmicos para exemplificar, na forma de estruturas gráficas, o pensamento das pessoas ou da equipe envolvida no planejamento. As estruturas arquetípicas definem categorias de situações problemáticas genérica, mas pouco reconhecidas à primeira vista, de modo que o software, ao encontrar uma dinâmica típica de uma determinada estrutura arquetípica, permite ao usuário reconhecer os pontos de atuação com alavancagem, para melhores efeitos de eficácia estratégica no sistema. Esta abordagem combinada possibilita um planejamento estratégico mais preciso e eficaz, optando os participantes envolvidos por ações nos pontos que movem o sistema em direção aos objetivos desejados. Este trabalho contém a aplicação do método sistêmico proposto, completando e ampliando os resultados de dois planejamentos reais, realizados com uso do método tradicional de SWOT: (1) o Planejamento da University of Warwick, publicado em 2004, e (2) o planejamento de 2013/2027 da UFPE.
This work aims to establish a theoretical connection between the SWOT method and principles of systems thinking in order to improve the understanding of the dynamic forces of the system on which it intends to intervene, making a graph with the SWOT factors and establishing systemic relations between them. From this graph, looking up maps and systemic archetypes to exemplify, in the graphic structures form, people's thinking or the team involved in the planning. The archetypal structures define categories of problematic situations generic, but little recognized at first glance, so the software to find a typical dynamics of a particular archetypal structure, allows the user to recognize the performance points with leverage for better effects of strategic effectiveness in the system. This combined approach enables a more accurate and effective strategic planning, opting for the participants involved by actions in points that move the system towards the desired goals. This work contains the application of the systemic method proposed, complementing and extending the results of two real plans, made using the traditional SWOT method: (1) the University of Warwick Planning, published in 2004, and (2) the planning 2013/2027 at UFPE.
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Sousa, Willy Hoppe de. "Decidindo como decidir: desenvolvimento de uma estrutura conceitual através de estudos de casos." Universidade de São Paulo, 2007. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/12/12139/tde-02042007-072002/.
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Ocasionalmente, decisores se deparam com situações que demandarão a tomada de decisões estratégicas. Trata-se, com freqüência, de decisões que não foram vivenciadas anteriormente - seja no âmbito do organizacional, seja no âmbito pessoal dos decisores envolvidos - e, por isso, essas experiências anteriores podem ser de pouco valor ou podem ser transpostas apenas parcialmente ao novo contexto decisório. Nessas situações, surge um problema real a ser enfrentado pelos decisores e pouco explorado empiricamente pelos estudiosos dos processos decisórios: o problema de decidir como tomar uma decisão estratégica ou, como também conhecido no meio acadêmico, como tomar as metadecisões de um processo decisório. Para tratar desse problema, pesquisou-se a escassa literatura existente e, considerando estudos selecionados sobre processos decisórios, desenvolveu-se um modelo teórico representando os fatores que podem afetar dois tipos de metadecisões: a de processo e a de conteúdo. Em seguida, no contexto de uma organização pública e, no âmbito do desenvolvimento e produção de dois produtos para fins de diagnóstico e terapia, uma investigação foi conduzida envolvendo, no total, sete processos decisórios. Essa investigação objetivou testar o modelo teórico desenvolvido, verificar a existência de alguma associação lógica entre as diferentes metadecisões tomadas ao longo de um processo decisório e, a partir de análises dos resultados, identificar contribuições acadêmicas e práticas ao estado da arte sobre o tema. Como resultado desse esforço, o modelo do processo metadecisório foi revisado com a inclusão de novos fatores que podem influenciar as metadecisões e constatou-se que, ao longo de um processo decisório, parte das metadecisões tomadas podem apresentar uma associação lógica entre si. No conjunto, esses resultados permitiram a conclusão quanto à existência de uma estrutura lógica subjacente ao processo decisório maior do que a identificada por outros autores em estudos anteriores. Dezenove proposições relacionadas a metadecisões e uma metodologia para decidir como decidir integram as contribuições do estudo e abrem a perspectiva para outros estudos investigarem a aplicabilidade e generalidade do modelo desenvolvido e das proposições efetuadas para outros contextos organizacionais.Occasionally, decision makers face situations where they need to make strategic decisions. Frequently, these decisions are new, and thus, previous experience is only partially helpful, if it is at all. In these situations, there is a real problem that needs to be addressed by the decision maker, which is the problem of deciding how to decide strategic decisions, or, in other words, how to make the metadecisions of a strategic decision. In order to deal with this theme, the scarce literature was reviewed and, along with selected topics about the decision making process, a theoretical model was developed to represent two types of metadecisions: process and content. The next step was the development of an empirical research in a public organization, involving the development and production of two products for diagnosis and therapy purposes. Seven decision processes were studied. The investigation was carried out in order to test the theoretical model, to verify the existence of any logical association among the different metadecisions taken within the decision process and, after the analysis of the results, to generate new contributions to the state of the art of this theme. The main results of this research are the revision and inclusion of new factors in the metadecision model and the identification that some of the metadecisions taken within a strategic decision process may present a logical association with one another. These findings indicated that the subjacent logical structure pointed out by other authors in previous studies can be extended. Nineteen propositions concerning metadecisions and a methodology to decide how to decide are additional contributions of this study. Taken altogether, this investigation opened the perspective of future studies to investigate the problem of deciding how to decide and extend the findings of the present study to other organizational environments.
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Sachun, Salazar Francisco Javier. "Impacto de la táctica de negociación “Ganar - Ganar” sobre la creación de valor compartido de los proyectos residenciales de unidades “Premium” localizados en Santiago de Surco desde un ángulo estratégico - gerencial." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/653048.
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La presente investigación tiene como finalidad evaluar el impacto de la táctica de negociación “ganar – ganar” sobre la creación de valor compartido de los proyectos residenciales de unidades premium localizados en Santiago de Surco, desde un ángulo estratégico - gerencial. La importancia del estudio se relaciona con validar el aporte de una metodología de negociación al posicionamiento y a la capacidad competitiva de los proyectos en mención.
El estudio consta de seis capítulos. En el primero se desarrolla la literatura más adecuada para justificar teóricamente los fundamentos y resultados del estudio; se describe brevemente el desempeño del sector inmobiliario en los últimos cinco años; y, finalmente, se identifican las características de la oferta y demanda del mercado premium, a nivel Lima Metropolitana y Santiago de Surco.
El segundo capítulo presenta las pautas generales que direccionan la investigación. El tercer capítulo describe la metodología seleccionada en función a las características del problema de investigación (ruta cualitativa y diseño etnográfico). El cuarto capítulo desarrolla el proceso para la extracción de información de la muestra de especialista y homogénea. En la misma línea, se desarrolla el “Índice creación de valor compartido ajustado al segmento residencial premium” con el objetivo de identificar a los proyectos creadores de valor compartido.
El quinto capítulo exhibe los resultados obtenidos a través de la validación de las hipótesis planteadas; de la misma manera, revela el tipo de relación existente entre las variables de estudio.
Finalmente, el sexto detalla las conclusiones y recomendaciones.The purpose of this research is to assess the impact of the winning negotiating tactic on the creation of shared value of residential projects of premium units located in Santiago de Surco, from a strategic - managerial angle. The importance of the study relates to validating the contribution of a trading methodology to the positioning and the competitive capacity of the projects mentioned. The study consists of six chapters. The first develops the most appropriate literature to theoretically justify the fundamentals and results of the study; briefly describes the performance of the real estate sector over the past five years; and finally, the characteristics of the offer and demand of the premium market are identified, at the Lima Metropolitana and Santiago de Surco level. The second chapter presents the general guidelines that address the research. The third chapter describes the methodology selected based on the characteristics of the research problem (qualitative path and ethnographic design). The fourth chapter develops the process for extracting information from the specialist and homogeneous sample. In the same vein, the "Premium Residential Segment Adjusted Shared Value Creation Index" is developed to identify shared value creator projects. The fifth chapter shows the results obtained through the validation of the assumptions raised; in the same way, it reveals the type of relationship between study variables. Finally, the sixth details the conclusions and recommendations.
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Merrick, Bradley Maxwell School of Music & Music Education UNSW. "The relationship between self-efficacy and self-regulated behaviour within a secondary school music technology based creative learning environment." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of Music and Music Education, 2006. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/25768.
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This study employed the theoretical framework of Albert Bandura???s social cognitive theory, to investigate how differing levels of self-efficacy impact on both the type and degree of self-regulatory behaviour employed by the students when composing music in a high school music program. The literature review revealed an abundance of related research suggesting a strong relationship between self-efficacy and self-regulated behaviour in the ???core??? academic domains of education. In contrast, there was no specific research found that had examined self-efficacy and self-regulation in the context of students composing music. An independent school in Sydney served as the research site, with sixty-eight students of varied year levels and musical experience participating in the study. Students used stand alone computers, the software ???Cubase??? and MIDI keyboards as they completed a task that involved creating an original piece of music in a genre of their own choice, over a series of four composition sessions. A mixed methodology was employed to determine if the influence of the students??? self-efficacy beliefs upon their self-regulation in a creative activity were consistent with existing research. Data were collected using a mixture of weekly measures and self-report scales, combined with a variety of questionnaires, logs, tally sheets and interviews. Eight variables, including the self-regulatory sub-processes of goal setting-strategic planning, intrinsic motivation, goal orientation, task expectation, time on task, task completion, monitoring were analysed together with an additional variable, defined as creative ability, to determine if evidence could be found of a relationship between self-efficacy and these specific behaviours while composing. The results suggest that the pre-task (Week 1) measure of self-efficacy was closely associated with the students??? use of the eight self-regulatory dimensions as well as their perceived level of creative ability. Weekly self-efficacy measures also suggested that students??? employ self-regulated sub-processes proportionally to their respective levels of self-efficacy. Importantly, the more efficacious students employed a wider and more sophisticated repertoire of self-regulated behaviour when composing in contrast to the less efficacious students. Self-efficacy was also identified as a key factor amongst students who were initially identified as being naive self-regulators, but who through the duration of the task, modified their behaviour to become more skilful self-regulators. Throughout the study, the consistent level of interaction between self-efficacy and the use of self-regulated behaviours were aligned with findings in the core ???academic??? disciplines of education.
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Lalenis, Konstantinos S. "Public participation strategies in urban planning in Greece after the 'Urban reconstruction operation (EPA) 1982-1984' comparison of theory and practice." Thesis, University of Westminster, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.334411.
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