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Introduction - aims, means and results. Part 1 Issues and ideas: studying deciding - an exchange of views between Mintzberg and Waters, Pettigrew and Butler, H. Mintzberg and J. Waters decision making at the top of organizations, D.J. Hickson complexity and cleavage - dual explanations of strategic decision making, W.G. Astley, R. Axelsson, R.J. Butler and D.C. Wilson organization as power, D.J. Hickson, W.G. Astley, RJ. Butler and D.C. Wilson. Part 2 Decision-making processes: sporadic, fluid and constricted processes - three empirical types of strategic decision making in organizations, D. Cray, G.R. Mallory et al explaining decision processes, D Cray et al electricity and resistance - a case study of innovation and politics, D.C. Wilson the interdepartmental influence of managers - individual and sub-unit perspectives, G.K. Kenny and D.C. Wilson breaking the bounds of organization in strategic decision making, D.C. Wilson et al the limits of trade union power in organization decision making, D.C. Wilson et al strategic investment decision making - complexities, politics and process, R.J. Butler et al. Part 3 Organizational features: strategic decision making - influence patters in public and private sector organizations, G.K. Kenny et al governmental influence upon decision makingin organizations in the private and public sectors in Britain, D.J. Jickson volunatry organizations in action - strategy in the British voluntary sector, D.C. Wilson and R.J. Butler. Part 4 National features: implanted decision making - American-owned firms in Britain, R. Axelsson et al decision style in British and Swedish organizations - a comparative examination of strategic decision making, R. Axelsson et al sensitivity to societal culture in managerial decision making - an Anglo-Brazilian comparison, C.A. Arruda and D.J. Hickson. Part 5 Successfully managing implementation: decision making - different organizations, differing reasons for success, S.B. Rodrigues and D.J. Hickson implementing strategic decision - four key success factors, S. Miller how organizations can overbalance - decision overreach as a reason for failure, D.C. Wilson et al. Part 6 Doing the research: ruminations on munificence and scarcity in research, D.J. Hickson.

The present paper examines how companies strategically employ design to create visual recognition of their brands' core values. To address this question, an explorative in-depth case study was carried out concerning the strategic design efforts of two companies: Nokia (mobile phones) and Volvo (passenger cars). It was found that these two companies fostered design philosophies that lay out which approach to design and which design features are expressive of the core brand values. The communication of value through design was modeled as a process of semantic transformation. This process specifies how meaning is created by design in a three-way relation among design features, brand values, and the interpretation by a potential customer. By analyzing the design effort of Nokia and Volvo with the help of this model, it is shown that control over the process of semantic transformation enabled managers in both companies to make strategic decisions over the type, strength, and generality of the relation between design features and brand values. Another result is that the embodiment of brand values in a design can be strategically organized around lead products. Such products serve as reference points for what the brand stands for and can be used as such during subsequent new product development (NPD) projects for other products in the brand portfolio. The design philosophy of Nokia was found to depart from that of Volvo. Nokia had a bigger product portfolio and served more market segments. It therefore had to apply its design features more flexibly over its product portfolio, and in many of its designs the relation between design features and brand values was more implicit. Six key drivers for the differences between the two companies were derived from the data. Two external drivers were identified that relate to the product category, and four internal drivers were found to stem from the companies' past and present brand management strategies. These drivers show that the design of visual recognition for the brand depends on the particular circumstances of the company and that it is tightly connected to strategic decision making on branding. These results are relevant for brand, product, and design managers, because they provide two good examples of companies that have organized their design efforts in such a way that they communicate the core values of their brands. Other companies can learn from these examples by considering why these two companies acted as they did and how their communication goals of product design were aligned to those of brand management.

The incredibly fast pace of technological development was up until recently the key growth factor in the mobile communications industry. Recently, however, as the market for the mobile communications equipment became saturated and competitive pressure intensified, the demand-side growth factor grew in importance. As a consequence, consumer preferences are likely to play the key role in determining the direction in which the mobile communications technology will develop. At present, multimedia services are the priority areas of the mobile communications technological progress. The multimedia services such as VOD (video on demand), video telephony services using streaming video technology as well as technological fusion with the other digital appliances like PDAs (personal digital assistant) and digital cameras, will attract more consumer's attention when the next generation of mobile communication services reaches the market. For example, color displays in cellular phones are one of the most important milestones in the path to the new paradigm of the multimedia technology. In this study, we analyzed consumer's valuation of color displays in cellular phones. At the time of the survey implementation, the market data was not available because it was a very early stage of adopting the color displays in cellular phones. Instead of adopting the revealed preference approach, a conjoint experiment was conducted where respondents were asked to rank cellular phone specification alternatives differing in the following attributes: the type of display, brand, and price. The ordered logic model applied to the survey data allowed us to decompose the cellular phones' values by the attributes, additional profit due to color display and the brand value, among others. Using our empirical estimates we also derived several implications for the competition strategy in the cellular phone market.

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Corporate social responsibility (hereinafter referred to as “CSR”) sometimes does not directly affect enterprise performance but through some mediator variable. Corporate reputation and brand value have chain-mediating effects in the influence mechanism of CSR on enterprise performance. Theoretically, this paper broadens the scope of study on CSR and enterprise performance, deeply explores the internal mechanism between them, and opens the “black box” in the process of transforming CSR into enterprise performance. Practically, it can encourage Chinese enterprises to actively undertake CSR, strengthen reputation management, enhance brand value, and finally promote the sustainable development of enterprises. A-share listed companies (listed companies in the Chinese A stock market) in Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges from 2008 to 2020 in “China’s 500 Most Valuable Brands List” by World Brand Lab are studied in this paper. The results of the empirical study based on relevant data show a significant positive relationship between CSR and enterprise performance. It investigates the mediating chain effects of corporate reputation and brand value in the influence of CSR on enterprise performance. Listed companies must disclose the annual CSR report. CSR reports as an effective supplement to corporate financial information, which provides an important communication channel for the enterprise and stakeholders. Stakeholders can timely understand their rights and interests through the CSR information and have a more comprehensive and deeper understanding of enterprises. In turn, the enterprise can also win a good reputation, establish a good brand image, and get sustainable development.

Corporate R&D is under pressure. Whereas innovative technology remains one of the most important business growth factors, it is difficult to link the outcomes of corporate R&D activities directly to a firm's market performance. Although new technologies mostly originate from R&D laboratories, their market success depends on multiple production, marketing, and sales-related factors that eclipse the research contribution. Those corporate R&D centers that have survived have increasingly financed their resources through business-unit contracts and third-party funding (1). For instance, in the early 1990s, ABB's corporate research was 80 percent financed by corporate money while today about 70 percent comes from the business units. And Siemens is transforming large parts of its centralized Corporate Technology R&D department to in-house consulting, while IBM has established its industry solution labs to provide external clients with access to its research results, and thus gain research-related income for the corporation. When the allocation of corporate money to R&D is reduced in favor of contract research assignments, the capability to attract the right resources--individuals and institutional partners--from an open-innovation ecosystem becomes a decisive success factor for technology companies. Moreover, a higher R&D intensity supports a stronger corporate brand, as can be seen from the analysis of 22 technology companies depicted in Figure 1. Reputation management is an important factor in attracting partners and external funding. From interviews with CEOs and CTOs of nine large industrial and publicly-funded firms (2), we have a clear indication that a corporate R&D lab's well-managed reputation has a direct impact on the firm's brand value. In other words, corporate research labs should not be measured only by their technological outcome, but also by the impact they have on a firm's brand value, for which the Interbrand ranking serves as a well-known reference for publicly traded companies (3). How the Study Was Conducted The brand valuation method of the market research institution Interbrand is a combined approach based on the forecasting of current and future brand revenues minus business-related costs and a scoring of customers' intentions to purchase a particular brand. R&D expenditures are costs and, therefore, excluded in Interband's valuation method. In our empirical survey, 113 mostly German and Swiss industrial R&D stakeholders were asked to rank 33 European R&D institutions--mainly in the technology sector--with respect to their overall reputations. We then asked the respondents to assess the key criteria that determined their ranking (see Figure 2). [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] We found that a corporate R&D center's popular visibility in terms of its coverage in the news, as well as in popular science and business media, significantly and positively affects its sourcing capabilities. Furthermore, there is a significant relationship between a corporate R&D organization's willingness to take risks and an external organization's decision to partner with it. This suggests that the better a prospective external partner perceives the R&D organization's sourcing capabilities to be, the more willing that partner will be to enter into the partnership. [FIGURE 2 OMITTED] An R&D organization's risk-taking attitude is associated with its reputation, which is in turn another important partnering selection criterion. An industrial R&D organization's overall reputation is, finally, highly correlated with its popular and scientific visibility in terms of the number of publications in academic journals and conference proceedings. Implications for Managers Based on these findings, we deduce that: * Targeted communication in A-level popular and business-related media is a must--not a nice-to-have--if an R&D organization is to be regarded as highly reputable. …

Purpose - The subject of market segmentation with respect to the use of mobile phones is an area that offers promising insights to strategic marketing decisions. The principles of market segmentation as established and grounded in marketing theory contain a multi-dimensional task of segmenting, targeting and positioning. Since telecommunications has inevitably transformed the entire well – being of man, of whom the young people are an interesting category, there has been a rising interest on various patterns of mobile phone usages among young consumers. This study therefore focuses on identifying various segments inherent within the younger consumers’ category in order to aid the formulation and implementation of adequate strategic marketing decisions.
 Design/methodology/approach - This study adopts the exploratory research approach as it attempts to get a general grasp of issues revolving around target market segmentation, as it relates to mobile phone usage patterns among young consumers. Secondary data was used and analysed vis-à-vis the outcome of a segmentation exercise previously conducted by a field expert.
 Findings - This study has adapted the six very important segments inherent among young mobile phone users vis: ‘talk n texters’, ‘gaming youths’, ‘talkative trendies’, ‘aspiring to be accepted’, ‘sophisticated careerists’, and ‘international business users’ and practically related them to the Nigerian younger consumers context.
 Practical Implications - The implication of this study for marketing practice is that organizational decisions are better guided as it becomes a lot easier to make target marketing decisions. Besides, the differing characteristics among the young mobile phone users category have been made more visible, necessitating the design of a more focused product offering suitable to each consumer category.
 Originality/Value – This study is a unique effort directed at an area of concern in marketing with very little or no attention accorded to it within the Nigerian market. It captures an interesting segment of the Nigerian mobile technologies market and presents a framework that offers a good basis for much more complex research activities in the nearest future.

Mobile Telecommunication industry is the one of most popular industry in the world now. As the environment changes, Vietnam joined the World Trade Organization (WTO), the country's economic development, Vietnam's service sector has become the mainstream of the industrial structure, while the rise of consumerism awareness, business and consumers must re-examine their inter-relationship. Brand strategy their own advantages, their weaknesses, in order to create a brand image, customer loyalty successfully established consumer brand preference. Thus increasing the added value of the brand. Therefore, this study for the mobile phone industry in Vietnam, to explore the brand strategy, brand image Gu loyalty and brand equity, and correlation coefficient. Vietnam hanoi general mobile consumer target groups. This research has developed a brand strategy, promotion strategy, brand image, Customer Loyalty and Branhd Equity relationship and theory framework. On the basis of the analytical framework and the developed operational model via AMOS, and the data which collected from questionnaires survey in the hanoi city and hanoi County to carry out the empirical test. The most significant findings are as following: 1. There is a significant, positive correlation between Brand Image and Brand Strategy. 2. There is a significant, positive correlation between Customer Loyalty and Brand Strategy. 3. There is a significant, positive correlation between Brand Image and Customer Loyalty. 4. There is a significant, positive correlation between Brand Image and Branhd Equity. 5. There is a significant, positive correlation between Customer Loyalty and Branhd Equity. The survey takes the Exquisite Mobile Phone sales as an example to discover the relationships in different variables. Contributions of the findings are to provide business marketing strategy and managing brands.

The innovative advances and widespread applications of mobile devices have resulted in diverse patterns of business models and consumer behaviors. In the context of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), this study discusses employees' behavioral intention taking into account individual and organizational levels. Based on the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology and Innovation Diffusion Theory, the literature indicates a positive relationship between organizational strategic decision and individual employee intention. The impact of perceived technological innovations and personal intention to adopt mobile commerce includes many factors, such as performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, innovativeness, and organizational decision. To better predict effectiveness of SMEs adopting mobile commerce, this paper proposes a conceptual framework in both organizational and individual levels to discover the causal relationship between organizational decision on strategic innovation and individual employee intention on technological acceptance. The research contribution is to help not only understand the impacts from individual levels, but also discuss the potential moderators in organizational decision-making.

Purpose: Studying the role of environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance in enhancing brand value is strategically important for promoting sustainable development.Design/methodology/approach: Using panel data for 126 different brands over 10 years, we empirically analyse the impact of ESG performance on brand value, considering the moderating role of the digitalisation level.Findings/results: Firstly, the impact of ESG performance on brand value exhibits a U-shaped relationship. Secondly, the digitalisation level negatively moderates the U-shaped relationship. Thirdly, the effect of ESG performance on brand value is mainly on the sub-items of environment and social responsibility, while the effect of governance is not significant.Practical implications: Firstly, firms should recognise the complex relationship between ESG performance and brand value, and strive to find a balance between economic benefits and sustainable development. Secondly, firms can utilise digital technology and platforms to communicate and interact with consumers, integrating ESG principles into their daily brand activities. Thirdly, investments in environmental and social responsibility are more meaningful for improving brand value.Originality/value: Firstly, our study adds value to corporate social responsibility (CSR) and ESG literature by investigating the non-linear impact of ESG performance on brand value. Secondly, we replenish the mechanistic study about how ESG performance affects brand value. Thirdly, we open the black box of the effect of single indicators (E/S/G) on brand value, including the specific direction and strength.

This study examined the impact of mobile communications on interpersonal relationships in daily life. Based on a nationwide survey in Japan, landline phone, mobile voice phone, mobile mail (text messaging), and PC e-mail were compared to assess their usage in terms of social network and psychological factors. The results indicated that young, nonfamily-related pairs of friends, living close to each other with frequent faceto-face contact were more likely to use mobile media. Social skill levels are negatively correlated with relative preference for mobile mail in comparison with mobile voice phone. These findings suggest that mobile mail is preferable for Japanese young people who tend to avoid direct communication and that its use maintains existing bonds rather than create new ones. doi:10.1111/j.1460-2466.2006.00023.x Since their rapid growth in popularity in the late 1990s, mobile phones have become an almost essential part of daily life. Currently, mobile phones are also used for purposes other than voice communication. In some countries, there has been a trend for young people to create their own unique subcultures in which they communicate predominantly through SMS (short message service), or by e-mail over their mobile phones (Ishii, 2004; Kasesniemi & Rautiainen, 2002; Skog, 2002). To explore the implications of media mobility, this study compared the impact of four types of personal communication media—landline phone, mobile voice phone, mobile mail, and PC e-mail—on interpersonal relationships, based on a representative survey. More specifically, egocentric network data were analyzed to examine the factors affecting the use of these media in daily life. In this study, empirical data were collected in Japan where cutting-edge mobile technologies (e.g., ‘‘i-mode’’ and 3-G phones) are widely used and where a unique mobile communication culture is prevalent among the youth. Henceforth, the term ‘‘mobile mail’’ will be used to refer to both SMS and e-mail via mobile phones because in Japan, SMS and e-mail

China’s remarkable economic achievement and growing economic strength have stimulated hot debates on the Chinese model of economic development. In a geo-political context, Ramo (2004) first coined the term ‘the Beijing Consensus’ to portray a distinct Chinese model of development, alternative to the neo-liberal formula prescribed by ‘the Washington Consensus’, which had produced mixed results in the economic transformation in Eastern Europe. ‘The Beijing Consensus’ proposes three guidelines for economic development, one of which is the value of innovation. In Ramo’s discussions, this guideline actually refers to both technological/industrial innovation and constant policy experimentation. As a critic of Ramo’s work, Dirlik (2006: 2) argues ‘[w]hat he [Ramo] offers is a “Silicon Valley Model of Development” that has little to do with the national situations to which he would like to speak’. Dirlik also brings up such issues as the exploitation of China’s labour force by foreign countries and severely uneven development in both spatial and social terms as significant downsides of the Chinese development. In our opinion, innovation in China is a fast-moving target, with changingfaces and variety. Even at the onset of economic reform, China’s economic take-off did not start from scratch, hence with a great potential of leapfrogging (Brezis et al. 1993). In particular, the Chinese science and technology system formerly placed relatively great emphasis on basic research and the development of sophisticated technologies, partly because of the defence race and China’s self-dependence strategy in the Cold War period. This together with speedy economic development and such a strategy as that of ‘market for technology’ over the last three decades may facilitate China becoming a fertile ground for innovation. So far, the fruit of China’s economic development also has enabled some proportion of the Chinese population to consume state-ofthe-art products and services. This may help to explain China’s fast surge in high-speed railway deployment and challenging technological frontiers, even with an intention to export, despite some doubt and controversies. In addition, unlike its Asian preceding economies, for example South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan, China is definitely not dwarfed by size of market, at least interms of market potential. As discussed in this chapter, even China’s severe uneven development in both spatial and social terms can be leveraged to generate bottom of the pyramid (BOP) innovation (Prahalad 2005) and ‘good-enough’ innovation (Christensen et al. 2001; Gadiesh et al. 2007). On the one hand, with accumulated economic strength over the last few dec-ades, China is intentionally marching towards becoming a regional technological superpower (Sigurdson 2005). This quest for technological leadership is often associated with championing the value of indigenous innovation and industrial standards (Suttmeier and Yao 2004). Such an indigenous industrial standard as TD-SCDMA (time-division synchronous code division multiple access) for the third-generation mobile phone (3G) has indeed been approved by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and actively promoted by the Chinese government and China’s flagship firms. However, questions remain as to whether TD-SCDMA will become an industrial standard within a ‘walled garden’1 or one with wide international acceptance. On the other hand, China has also impressed the world with its progressivedevelopment in ‘shanzhai’ (also called guerrilla) handsets, despite some controversy. The rapid development of shanzhai handsets has brought about the progressive expansion of China’s mobile communications market and an army of local handset producers that have gained a strong market foothold, against leading international branded firms. In addition, this development has much to do with the role played by the diverse demand from the grassroots and the cross-strait innovation network, involving Taiwanese firms such as MediaTek, a leading IC (integrated circuit) design house. In other words, the rise and development of the shanzhai handset sector has marked a sharp contrast with the Chinese top-down approach to indigenous innovations and industrial standards, which often involves generous government support and a few national champions. Wikipedia (2010) has described shanzhai mobile (cell) phones as follows:Shanzhai refers to Chinese imitation and pirated brands and goods, particularly electronics … The use of shanzhai became popular with the outstanding sale performance of shanzhai cell phones. According to Gartner’s data, 1.15 billion cell phones were sold worldwide in 2007, and according to data provided by the Chinese government, 150 million Shanzhai cell phones were sold in the same year, thus making up more than one tenth of the global sales … The market for Shanzhai cell phones is not only in China, but also in the surrounding developing countries in Asia, and Third World countries in Africa and Latin America. The outstanding sales performance of Shanzhai cell phones is usually attributed to their low price, multifunctional performance and imitations of trendy cell phone design … Shanzhai cell phones can be sold at very low prices compared to normal cell phones. On average, the imitations sell at retailers at about $US100-$US150, while production costs are about $US20.

The book divides history - from prehistoric times to modern day - into ten chapters: prehistory through 849 BCE, classical and early medieval science, late medieval and renaissance science, the scientific revolution, the industrial revolution, the age of steam, the age of electricity, the atomic age, the space age and the modern world. Within these easily digestible segments, all human scientific achievement and innovation are divided into four topical areas (astronomy and math, biology and medicine, physical sciences and engineering and invention) and displayed by region of the world (Africa and the Middle East, Asia and Oceania, the Americas, and Europe) for easy comparison. Informative sidebars - 'Inside Story', 'Turning Points', 'How Things Work' - provide short, interactive bursts of information, while two-page feature spreads explore the most revolutionary inventions in greater depth. Compelling essays and quotations enrich the pages. Readers learn how humans managed to create fire and eventually produce it at will; how the wheel came to be and how its appearance on the world stage changed the course of humankind forever; the secrets of Meso-American pyramids; how the Chinese harnessed water power; the fundamentals of early Arabian science; the evolution of creating of guns and gunpowder; and the breathtaking achievements of Gallileo, Newton and Fahrenheit. Readers also get to marvel at invention and science in the modern world, from fractals, to cell phone innovention to the Hubble Space Telescope. About 350 photos, maps, illustrations and diagrams add visually compelling emphasis to the information. A glossary explains unfamiliar scientific and technical terms, while a detailed index makes the books a substantive reference.

Foreword, David Audretsch Introduction PART I: THE BLACK BOX 1. Neuroeconomics of Environmental Uncertainty and the Theory of Firm, Helen Pushkarskaya, Michael Smithson, Xun Liu and Jane E. Joseph 2. Risk and Ambiguity: Entrepreneurial Research from the Perspective of Economics, Angela A. Stanton and Isabell M. Welpe 3. What You Think Is Not What You Think: Unconsciousness and Entrepreneurial Behavior, Eden S. Blair PART II: TRUST, GREED AND THE BLACK BOX 4. Using Brains to Create Trust: A Manager's Toolbox, Paul J. Zak and Amos Nadler 5. The New Millennium's First Global Financial Crisis: The Neuroeconomics of Greed, Self-interest, Deception, False Trust, Overconfidence and Risk Perception, Donald T. Wargo, Norman Baglini, and Kate Nelson PART III: INSIDE THE BLACK BOX: DECISIONS BY HORMONES 6. In the Words of Larry Summers: Gender Stereotypes and Implicit Beliefs in Negotiations, Laura J. Kray, Connson C. Locke and Michael P. Haselhuhn 7. Ovulatory Shifts in Women's Social Motives and Behaviors: Implications for Corporate Organizations, Kristina M. Durante and Gad Saad 8. Hormonal Influence on Male Decision-Making: Implications for Organizational Management, Angela A. Stanton 9. Dopamine, Expected Utility and Decision Making in the Firm, Donald Wargo, Norm Baglini and Kate Nelson PART VI: ENTREPRENEURIAL PROPENSITY 10. An Economic and Neuroscientific Comparison of Strategic Decision-Making, Theresa Michl and Stefan Taing 11. Mapping Neurological Drivers to Entrepreneurial Proclivity, Robert Smith 12. Embodied Entrepreneurship: A Sensory Theory of Value, Frederic Basso, Laurent Guillou and Olivier Oullier PART V: ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE AND ETHICS 13. What Neuroeconomics Informs Us About Making Real-World Ethical Decisions in Organizations, Donald T. Wargo, Norman A. Baglini and Katherine A. Nelson 14. Culture, Cognition and Conflict: How Neuroscience Can Help to Explain Cultural Differences in Negotiation and Conflict Management, John F. McCarthy, Carl A. Scheraga and Donald E. Gibson 15. Brain and Human Behavior in Organizations: A Field of Neuro-Organizational Behavior, Constant D. Beugre

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