Success in changing environments : strategies and key influencing factors
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Bibliographic Information
Success in changing environments : strategies and key influencing factors
（Gabler Edition Wissenschaft, . Research in management accounting & control / herausgegeben von Utz Schäffer）
Deutscher Universitätsverlag, 2007
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-227)
Originally published as the author's thesis--European Business School, 2006
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Manuela Stoll focuses on two strategies to address change: adapting to change and creating change. Using a large-scale survey among top executives of manufacturing firms in Germany, she evaluates the importance of a range of resources, competences, and "isolating mechanisms" (shields against imitation) for the success of these strategies. She shows that adapting to change has an important effect on firm performance and is mainly influenced by a firm's industry foresight abilities. She also illustrates how these abilities can be strengthened.
Table of Contents
Requirements for a theory in light of the research objective
Comparison of important economic theories
The resource-based view: Main elements and causal relationships
The resource-based view: Critique and potential for advancements
Strategies to deal with change
Contingency of strategies on internal and external factors
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