Journal of Business Strategy articles from January 2006

Journal of Business Strategy archives from January 2006

Editor's note.(Editorial)
January 1, 2006... We wish more academics would do what Rich Allen and his colleagues from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and Dalton State did for the Journal of Business Strategy: take an academic, very technical study and translate it into an...

"Going dark": it will definitely dim the lights.(Corporate governance)
January 1, 2006... A torrent of criticism has followed the enactment and implementation of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), related guidelines by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, and the frequently revised listing guidelines for the major stock...

Far from the blinking crowd.(Alternative strategies)
January 1, 2006... I have a secret. Through the years, I have compiled a list of my favorite book cover blurbs. Blurbs are the flattering statements placed on book covers by publishers who hope to cause browsers to run immediately to stand in that long, long...

A health audit for corporate entrepreneurship: innovation at all levels: part I.
January 1, 2006... Introduction In the twenty-first century, knowledge and the ideas flowing from it are a more important source of competitive advantage than a firm's physical assets are. Knowledge is information that is laden with experience, judgment,...

The hidden risks in strategic account management strategy.
January 1, 2006... Strategic account management (SAM) strategies, sometimes known as key account management (KAM), have evolved across the world as an approach to handling the issues raised by very large customers who dominate a supplier's sales and profit...

The executive growth factor: how Siemens invigorated its customer relationships.
January 1, 2006... [T]he setting: an executive meeting in the near future. Next year's account plans for the company's most important customers are being presented to the executive committee. The motivational opening of the fatherly-type CEO has created a relaxed...

The logic of Chinese business strategy: East versus West: Part I.
January 1, 2006... Introduction In the first ten months of 2004, China attracted $54 billion in foreign direct investment Indeed, foreign direct investment inflows into China have exceeded $50 billion annually, and in 2002 surpassed that of the leader for...

Critical tactics for implementing Porter's generic strategies.
January 1, 2006... Since the early 1980s, Michael Porter's strategic typology has been one of the most widely accepted methods of discussing, categorizing, and selecting company strategies. Porter's novel idea that strategies can be classified into generic types...

Driving growth with new products: common pricing traps to avoid.
January 1, 2006... It is essential for companies to develop better pricing strategies for a larger and more complex worldwide marketplace. Conventional wisdom says the best time to launch new products is in the early stages of an economic upturn as demand picks...