This paper offers a selected review of strategic group theory and seeks to explore the benefits and limitations of modern strategic group analysis within the context of the Pharmaceutical Industry. The rise and fall of strategic group research is reviewed and some suggestions advanced as to the reasons why strategic group research has often produced conflicting results, particularly with regard...

OBJECTIVES To assess the adequacy of the existing strategic plans and compare the format and content of health sector strategic plans with the guidelines in selected countries of the African region. DATA SOURCE The health strategic plans for Gambia, Liberia, Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda, which are kept at the WHO/AFRO, were reviewed. DATA EXTRACTION All health strategic plans among the Anglo...

introduction: today, human resources are the most important competitive advantage of organizations. therefore, university administrators should be aware of how to effectively use this strategic factor and advantage. however, innovation is also a valuable tool in confronting uncertainty, and responding to and impacting the external environment. the aim of the present study was to determine the s...

nowadays planning a strategic management system using appropriate tools and technologies to reduce the negative consequences resulting from lack of proper waste management in rural areas is essential. it was tried that in the study population which includes approximately 74/37 percent of the minab city's population to collect data from surveys of people attending in person and through ques...

This study explores the alignment between IT/IS and marketing from a strategic perspective. The heads of IT and marketing of eighteen large New Zealand companies were interviewed, and their assessments of alignment rated according to two constructs: strategic orientation, and market orientation. The strategic orientation dimensions were aggressiveness, analysis, defensiveness, futurity, proacti...

This article introduces strategic form games, which provide a framework for the analysis of strategic interactions in multi-agent environments. We present the main solution concept in strategic form games, Nash equilibrium, and provide tools for its systematic study. We present fundamental results for existence and uniqueness of Nash equilibria and discuss their efficiency properties. We conclu...

Agile methods are widely believed to have the potential to improve software processes. Given the variety of agile practices, organizations face difficult decisions on which ones to adopt. Recognizing that agile adoption is often motivated by strategic concerns such as market competitiveness or responsiveness to customer needs, this paper outlines a framework for the strategic analysis of agile ...

Over the past fteen years a variety of interactive IDA systems have been developed to support strategic reasoning for data analysis. We present an AI framework, hierarchical task network planning, that provides a unifying view of these e orts. We describe a taxonomy of strategic approaches to IDA, based on the planning framework, and discuss the strengths and weaknesses associated with each app...

As network traffic monitoring software for cybersecurity, malware detection, and other critical tasks becomes increasingly automated, the rate of alerts and supporting data gathered, as well as the complexity of the underlying model, regularly exceed human processing capabilities. Many of these applications require complex models and constituent rules in order to come up with decisions that inf...