Posted on 15 April 2016. Tags: Research methodology, Research strategy, strategic management
Research methods designed to study strategic management, are as varied as the theories of strategy that have been developed over time. From the purely quantitative methods with mathematical models such as structural equations or multiple regression models, even the purely qualitative methods such as ethnography, or direct observation. However, despite the differences, all these methods are intended to build theory about the strategic management. In this sense, the present paper, reviewed the methodologies used in the generation of knowledge regarding the strategic management, and proposes future lines of research on the topic and the methods used.
A Review of Research Methods in Strategic Management; What Have Been Done, and What is Still Missing (773.8 KiB, 8,924 hits)
Posted in Economics, Information Technology, Knowledge Management, Volume VI, Issue no. 2
Posted on 15 April 2016. Tags: cultural variables, Institutional variables, internationalization, multinational firms
This paper is aimed to analyze some of the institutional and cultural implications on internationalization analysis of multinational firms. The analysis begins questioning what the main institutional and cultural variables are considered in the involvement of internationalization of multinational firms. To answer this question, firstly it is reviewed the literature on internationalization of multinational firms based on institutional and cultural frameworks to find the main research tendencies. Secondly, these institutional and cultural variables are analyzed to integrate findings. Considering some findings of the reviewed literature on institutionalism and culture, this paper centers the analysis on the implications of intangible capital, learning and innovation on multinational firms. This paper also explores a more dynamic and multivariable approach to organizational culture to explain the complexities of multicultural distributed teams and contextual factors on performance of multinational firms. While doing so, the paper reviews the involvement of organizational culture in internationalization processes of multinational firms centered on strategic alliances and joint ventures and the creation of a third culture of management and leadership styles. Finally, it is discussed and concluded the need to design a better institutional and cultural balance among the development of a local-regional transformation, convergence and governance.
The Main Institutional and Cultural Variables which Are Considered in the Involvement of Internationalization of Multinational Firms (704.9 KiB, 2,316 hits)
Posted in Economics, Information Technology, Knowledge Management, Volume VI / 2016, Volume VI, Issue no. 2
Posted on 15 April 2016. Tags: Aerospace industry, Institutions, Resources and capabilities
This paper aboard the analysis of the aviation industry, indicating that it has high prospects for growth, specifically analyses the global situation to mention key aspects of the case of Mexico, analyzing the case of Hydra Technologies where elements found in their success are resources and capabilities such as innovation, human resources; institutions that also influence are the federal Government, school of mechanical engineering and electrical of the IPN (National Polytechnic Institute)
An Analysis of Resources, Capacities, and Institutions of the Aviation Industry in Mexico: Hydra Technologies Case (716.2 KiB, 1,498 hits)
Posted in Economics, Information Technology, Knowledge Management, Volume VI, Issue no. 2
Posted on 15 August 2012. Tags: Integrity, leadership integrity effectiveness, management integrity development, organizational integrity capacity system
Aims / objectives: This paper aims to analyze organizational management integrity capacity system as an improvement concept for enhancing leadership integrity effectiveness in a university setting. It departs from the analysis of the current organizational culture, values, virtues, managerial capabilities and attitudes to assume any organizational task. This paper aims also to propose a strategic model for the institutionalization of an organizational management integrity system. Study design: Cross-sectional study.
Place and Duration of Study: University Center for Economic and Managerial Sciences, University of Guadalajara. The study is conducted for one academic year during the term 2011-2012.
Methodology: The research methods used are the analytical based in the literature review and interpretative of the main findings to provide a synthetic model.
Results and conclusion: The outcomes of the research on the application of organizational management integrity capacity systems may demonstrate that the drama of leadership effectiveness is centered on dysfunctional organizational integrity culture and leadership. This chapter provides a sound strategies and institutionalization for organizational integrity capacity philosophy focused on leadership integrity effectiveness that empowers management professionals to act with integrity and supported by an organizational integrity culture.
Implications: The results provide the basis to develop strategies for an organizational integrity leadership framed by an organizational integrity culture, sustained by a code of conduct, regulation policies and overall the development and institutionalization of an organizational integrity capacity system which can positively influence the behavior of key stakeholders and actors.
Enhancing Leadership Integrity Effectiveness Strategy Through The Institutionalization Of Anorganizational Management Integrity Capacity Systems (381.5 KiB, 9,884 hits)
Posted in Economics, Volume II, Issue no. 4
Posted on 15 December 2011. Tags: innovation, management, risk
The object of this research is to identify the sources of risk in innovation projects and to determine whether they could be managed better. Due to the diversity of opinions and theories over the nature of risk, reaching an agreement about risk management is difficult. This will be a major problem if any effort is made to proactively manage ‘risk’ in naturally ‘risky’ areas such as innovation. Some risk management could be valuable, but perhaps too much, or inappropriate risk management might stifle innovation. It is necessary and valuable to consider the process of innovation from conceptualization to commercialization, how uncertainties are formed, how they are managed in that context, and how the techniques of risk management can be further deployed to enhance the success rate of innovation projects. Various approaches have been proposed to risk management in general, however the extent to which they are relevant for managing innovation is uncertain. Thus, during this paper, the general model of innovation and the process of risk management for managing the parameters which create the risk in these projects are explained.
Management in the Innovation Project (896.5 KiB, 7,098 hits)
Posted in Economics, Issue no. 7
Posted on 15 June 2011. Tags: economic integration, securization, state security
This paper is aimed to show that securitization, a concept of the State security theory, provides some elements to obtain a more complete vision linked to other sciences about the economic integration processes. Until now, economic integration is studied by diverse strands of economic thought, exhausting the conceptual frameworks in reinterpretations impeding progress in the explanation of motivations of Nations to be economically linked. Here it has been linked to the categories of economic integration and the State security theory, to give an answer to the question of whether economic integration is a process that is explained by it or if it is determined by the search for security of States.
As a conclusion of the study, it proposes a conceptual model of economic integration and economic regionalization, as resulting from the process of securitization.
Securitization As a Factor Of Economic Integration (1.1 MiB, 2,747 hits)
Posted in Economics, Issue no. 4