Firm Strategic Thinking and its Informational Support

Mergers and Acquisitions: Strategic and Informational Issues

A merger is a transaction that combines two firms, leaving one surviving entity. An acquisition is the purchase of one firm by another individual or firm. Both transactions fall under the more general heading of takeovers. Takeovers can play a constructive economic role, for example by removing inefficient management or by achieving economies of scale and complementarity. On the other hand, the...

Informational Party Primaries and Strategic Ambiguity

While scholars have thoroughly explored the logic of two candidate electoral competition, much less has been accomplished in gaining an understanding of the role of party primaries. This paper presents an incomplete information model of primary and general elections and argues that party primaries do more than select party candidates. Party primaries serve an informational function. In an envir...

Strategic Thinking - Processual Context

Dynamic Strategic Thinking

Market analysts and marketing strategists stress understanding the fundamental dynamics of a market but how deeply do they think about the interplay of such fundamentals and what frameworks do they use in such thinking? How do business schools teach managers to think this way? The premise of this paper is that in their strategizing, senior marketing executives, boards of directors, consultants ...

Strategic thinking in pharmacy