Sökning: "Strategic Objective"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 119 avhandlingar innehållade orden Strategic Objective.
1. Strategic Colonels : The Discretion of Swedish Force Commanders in Afghanistan 2006–2013
Sammanfattning : This dissertation examines the role of military officers as policy implementers by investigating the discretion of Swedish force commanders in the multinational military campaign in Afghanistan between 2006 and 2013. By developing an analytical framework that takes both an outside-in and an inside-out perspective, and that encompasses both the objective implications that structural factors project on force commanders as well as their subjective perceptions of those structural factors, and applying that framework to a range of official documents as well as unique interview data, the thesis describes the discretion that force commanders have had in interpreting, choosing and shaping their mission and concept of operations. LÄS MER
2. Mind the Mind : Strategic Communication in the Swedish Green Party
Sammanfattning : An increasingly complex environment and pressure from external publics on organizations to speak consistently challenge contemporary organizations. Strategic communication has been portrayed as offering a method for organizations to handle these complexities and is characterized not only as a rational way to handle problems organization face by centralizing, planning, and controlling, but as inevitable. LÄS MER
3. In Search of Strategic Consistency - A Model for Evaluation of how Stategies Support Objectives
Sammanfattning : Developments during recent years have brought a divergence between strategic management theory and practice. While practitioners perceive an undiminished need for identification and implementation of appropriate strategic directions of companies, theorists have stressed the limitations that apply to rational strategic analysis and decision-making. LÄS MER
4. Value-based management - positioning of claimed merits and analysis of application
Sammanfattning : Value-based management has attracted considerable interest among organizations and academics in recent years. Responding to calls for case-based research, this thesis describes, analyses and conceptualizes value-based management as a management accounting construct. While previous research has focused on the measures (eg. LÄS MER
5. Pricing Capability and Its Strategic Dimensions
Sammanfattning : The notion of pricing as being of vital importance to firms is supported by a long line of publications that outline recommendations on how price should be managed in order to maximize long-term profits. This implies that pricing, or firm level pricing capability, should constitute an important area of research in the field of strategic management, a field which has as its prime objective to develop explanations of firm performance. LÄS MER