Document Type	Master's Dissertation
Author	Frank, Tracy Beth
URN	etd-06302012-191642
Document Title	Contemporary strategic management practices of leading organisations
Degree	MBA
Department	Gordon Institute of Business Science
Supervisor	Advisor Name Title Dr R Raina Supervisor
Keywords	organisation behaviour strategic management practices strategy
Date	2012-03-08
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract Underpinning the elements of strategy design and execution are assumptions, norms and beliefs which can be broadly characterised as strategic management practices. These strategic management practices are in evidence in all schools of strategy academic theory. Whilst there has been a great deal of work conducted into the processes of strategy design and execution, there is little study of strategic management practices. This research sought to uncover the contemporary strategic management practices in evidence at a select number of leading organisations through qualitative analysis of secondary data in the form of case studies and other publically available material. A nascent content based definition for the concept of strategic management practices was developed from the literature review and tested against the evidence uncovered. Additional themes uncovered from the data were incorporated into the proposed definition and a synthesised version developed based on the strength of the evidence uncovered. © 2011, University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. Please cite as follows: Frank, TB 2011, Contemporary strategic management practices of leading organisations, MBA dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-06302012-191642/ > F/12/4/648/zw
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