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...

Developing technological applications, entering exploitation alliances, and choosing between a researchor service-focused strategic orientation are decisions that high-tech firms must manage concurrently. This paper explores systematically the contrasting effects of these strategic determinants on rent-generation and rent-appropriation using the entire population of French biotech firms (1994-2...

Information Technology (IT) is strategic for organization management (Stair & Reynolds, 2005), although, many companies lack IT governance and planning, skilled people, defined and institutionalized methods and procedures, internal controls and indicators, and structures for agreement service levels and information security, legality, and economy. In this scenario, a minimum organization and co...

This paper proposes a model of strategic evolution as a sequence of intentional recombinations of the company’s Core Micro-strategy with new resources and organisational routines. A Core Micro-strategy is hereby defined as the established system of interconnected routines, micro-activities and resources that can be traced in most of the company’s successful strategic initiatives. The paper is b...

Increasing globalisation, diversity of the product range and increasing customer awareness are making markets highly competitive, forcing different supply chains to adapt to different stimuli on a continuous basis. The necessary level of ‘compatibility’ among all the upstream and downstream players in a supply chain must be achieved to meet the strategic objectives of the supply chain. A mismat...

INTRODUCTION Allocate fixed resources among competing users is a challenge in terms of hospital management in order to obtain the best performance considering strategic objectives. In order to address this need, a system of evaluation in an important research and teaching hospital was designed. This study describes resource allocation criteria in a hospital focusing on the evaluation system and...

Distribution and allocation of resources is affected by factors such as values, norms, social stratifications, ideology, information, coercion, political challenges, and even external factors. This finding means that there is always a fundamental tendency to redirect resources toward political goals instead of public interests and development. Because the resource structure is strongly influenc...

Information Technology (IT) is the strategic for organizations, however, realizes that lack IT planning, IT governance, capable persons, methods, defined processes, indicators, internal controls, level accord services, information security, legality and economy. Against this scenario, you need a minimum of organization and control to the use of IT resources in order to increase the technical an...

This paper compares two approaches to definition of the environmental and organizational influence constructs in strategic management research by quantitatively examining loading of variables on these constructs versus the predominant qualitative approach to construct definition in the field. Variables operationalizing competition, network externalities, and community resources were used to cap...