analysis on both sides of the management/ research fence in a federal land-management agency in areas of wildlife and ecosystem conservation (e.g., Marcot et al. 2006). I can attest that this classical risk-management framework, as applied to public land and natural resource management, just doesn’t work as portrayed in the textbooks. Here’s why, and here are some practical opportunities for mo...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the competitive strategy emphasised by SMEs in order to cope with global competition. Design/methodology/approach – A self-administrative questionnaire was distributed to 300 potential respondents in the F&B and T&C manufacturing industries throughout Malaysia. A total of 212 respondents or small and medium enterprises returned the completed que...

It is argued that Strategic Management is concerned with ‘The Whole Organization’. The whole organization includes four main functional areas, which are marketing, operations management, finance and human resource management. Each functional area requires strategic thinking, which is thinking for the future. What a whole organization needs is to make strategic decisions and put the strategy int...

Excerpt] The notion that compensation policies are strategic, thereby affecting the missions of the organization, has considerable currency. This is part of the current popularity of all things strategic. While some may write it off as another fad, a less cynical view is that a strategic perspective on compensation is part of a growing recognition that macro-organizational issues are an importa...

the energy efficiency, greenhouse gas (ghg) emissions, and carbon efficiency of paddy rice production were analysed in sari in the mazandaran province of iran during 2011–2012. data was collected through questionnaires and interviews with paddy producers. the results showed that the net energy gain was 27,932 mj ha-1 and energy efficiency was 1.83 during production. the results of the cobb-doug...

Drawing on environmental determinism and environmental management perspectives, this study examines the roles of strategy in the relationship between environment and performance in new ventures. With data from 184 ventures in China’s high technology industries, I found that new venture strategies play differential roles in dealing with different environmental dimensions to affect performance. I...