Analysis Of Strategic Decisions Research Articles

Huawei's Operational Strategy in the Changing International Landscape

This paper examines Huawei's shift in business strategy in a changing international envi-ronment. Huawei's influence extends beyond the technology industry, as it plays a signifi-cant role in global political and trade relations, particularly between the United States and China. The changing international landscape has had a significant impact on Huawei, mainly in terms of trade restrictions, market access limitations, and supply chain disrup-tions. This paper uses a multidimensional framework to comprehensively understand Huawei's business strategy shifts in response to changes in the international environment. The framework integrates all aspects of the company's operational strategy to enable a comprehensive analysis of the company's strategic decisions and outcomes, which provides a comprehensive view of Huawei's operational strategy shifts in a changing international landscape. The paper also conducts a SWOT analysis of Huawei's business strategy, identi-fying Huawei's core competencies, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Finally, the pa-per offers recommendations for Huawei to mitigate the impact of geopolitical tensions, di-versify its products and services, and focus on the domestic market.

Open the live streaming sales channel or not? Analysis of strategic decision for a manufacturer

Open the live streaming sales channel or not? Analysis of strategic decision for a manufacturer

Unveiling the Dynamics of E-Banking: A Comprehensive Analysis of Strategic Choices, Service Quality and Customer Satisfaction

This article presents a thorough analysis of strategic decisions in the dynamic realm of electronic banking (ebanking), encompassing ATMs, Internet banking, and mobile banking. Examining varying levels of e-banking sophistication, it explores strategic choices faced by banks, considering critical factors influencing decision-making. Drawing from existing literature, the study delves into dimensions of e-banking service quality, emphasizing the absence of a universally applicable model. The research advocates further exploration for a standardized measurement framework. Additionally, it investigates the evolving role of the Internet in altering customer participation in service delivery, stressing nuanced understanding of service quality. Customer satisfaction is identified as pivotal, with the study establishing a direct link between service quality dimensions and long-term customer relationships. The article also explores perceived service value, highlighting its independent contribution to customer loyalty. Overall, it offers insights into strategic choices in e-banking, emphasizing seamless integration of electronic channels and customer-centric approaches for enhanced service quality and satisfaction in the evolving landscape. Keywords: E-banking, Uganda, Customer satisfaction, Service Quality

Analysis of strategic deviance decisions considering investors’ risk aversion and the industrial earnings forecast errors

Analysis of strategic deviance decisions considering investors’ risk aversion and the industrial earnings forecast errors

Strategic management during the contingency period in the regional real estate market

This research article discusses national and regional strategic instruments to counteract the contingency period in the real estate market. A contingency period refers to a period of unreasonable price increases in the market, characterized by excessive investment due to long-term speculative expectations of investors. The aim of the study is to identify the most effective strategic means of counteracting various phases of the contingency period in the regional real estate market. The theoretical basis of the article is primarily strategy theory and strategizing methodology of Doctor of Economics, Professor V. L. Kvint. As a result of the analysis of possible national and regional strategic decisions affecting the real estate market during the contingency period, the most effective in the author’s opinion were selected. The arguments presented in the article underscore the need to establish effective systems for identifying signs of the occurrence of the contingency period, as well as for evaluating different scenarios of the functioning of the economic system during that period and for exiting from it.

Analysis of Multiple Constraints and Strategic Investment Decision with Proposed Algorithm

Analysis of Multiple Constraints and Strategic Investment Decision with Proposed Algorithm

Historical patterns of foreign policy of Denmark: the reason for abandoning neutrality after the World War II?

Based on the historical analysis, this article attempts to give a detailed and comprehensive answer to the question about the reasons that forced Denmark to abandon the policy of neutrality after the World War II and become the member of the North Atlantic Alliance. The object of this research is the foreign policy of Denmark in the XV – XX centuries, while the subject is the balancing strategy of Denmark in the conditions of transition from the status of regional power to the status of second-order power, and ultimately, to the status of a small European state that seeks to ensure the own neutrality. Special attention is given to the analysis of strategic foreign policy decisions of Denmark in the conditions of major regional and European conflicts, such as the Dano-Swedish War of the XVII century, Great Northern War (1700-1721), Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815), First Schleswig War (1848-1850) and Second Schleswig War (1864), World War I (1914-1918) and World War II (1939-1945). The conclusion is made that reaching the actual neutral status for Denmark throughout its foreign policy history was virtually impossible due to the fact that conventional neutrality acquired either a pro-German or pro-British orientation, and in reality represented an attempt to find a complex balance between the interests of the great powers. The need for balancing overlapped the historical vulnerability of Northern European region to external influence. Since the great powers using bilateral diplomacy did allow close rapprochement countries between Nordic countries, the common defense alliance projects both prior to the World War II and after the World War II failed to implement  A crucial point in evolution of the foreign policy strategy of Danish politicians became the negative experience of the World War II, when strict conformity to the policy of neutrality did not prevent the German occupation of the country.

Strategic Management and Decision Making of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in the Czech Republic

The topic of strategic management and decision making was underestimated by SMEs for a long term. Managers believed that experience, intuition and operability are the key success factors of their management work. These opinions have recently been abandoned in the management practice. This paper is focused on the analysis of strategic management and decision making and presents the outputs from research based on a test sample of 381 enterprises, of which 114 microenterprises, 141 small enterprises and 126 medium-sized enterprises. The company size categorization within this sample is corresponding to the SME structure in the South Bohemian Region. Lack of awareness of procedures for development of essential strategic documents such as vision, mission statements and a corporate strategy was observed. More than 60 % SMEs do not have such documents. are Similar results were obtained with respect to the development of a corporate strategy using the methods of a strategic situation analysis. This finding is alarming and its adverse impact can primarily be expected in a period of economic recession or downturn.

Hybrid SWOT-AHP Analysis of Strategic Decisions of Coastal Tourism: A Case Study of Shandong Peninsula Blue Economic Zone

Liu, R., Wang, Y. and Qian, Z., 2019. Hybrid SWOT-AHP analysis of strategic decisions of coastal tourism in China: A case study of Shandong Peninsula Blue Economic Zone. In: Gong, D.; Zhu, H., and Liu, R. (eds.), Selected Topics in Coastal Research: Engineering, Industry, Economy, and Sustainable Development. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 94, pp. 671–676. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208.Coastal tourism is an important growth point of marine economic. Shandong Peninsula Blue Economic Zone (SPBEZ) is the first approved strategic marine economic development zone in China. Its coastal tourism development not only has an important demonstration role, but also has important significance for the marine ecological civilization. This study combined SWOT analysis with the analytical hierarchy process (AHP), and with experts' professional knowledge, quantitatively calculated the intensities of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of coastal tourism in SPBEZ. From the perspective of SWOT-AHP model, drew strategic quadrilateral, calculated strategic vector, and scientifically established the strategic type and the strength of strategy implementation. The results show that the pioneering strategy of seizing opportunities should be actively implemented, and the implementation focus of OS strategy, OW strategy, ST strategy and WT strategy are further clarified.

Causality Rules: Performance Feedback on Hierarchically Related Goals and Capital Investment Variability

AbstractWe extend March and Simon’s (1958) analysis of strategic decisions by distinguishing between two rules for allocating attention – priority versus causality. We develop theory concerning causality rules which have been largely overlooked in prior literature. Specifically, we examine how performance feedback on the intermediate productivity goal and the higher‐order profitability goal independently and jointly influence the variability of firm capital investments. Panel analysis of 2,477 Spanish manufacturing firms reveals that these goals jointly affect the variability of capital investments through both priority and causality attention rules. Our study provides new insights on how firms handle multiple goals, deconstruct performance feedback, and cope with the attentional constraints of bounded rationality.

Selling the family silver? Institutional entrepreneurship and asset disposal in the English housing association sector

The purpose of this paper is to shed light on English housing associations’ asset management strategies through an analysis of strategic decisions to either dispose of or retain valuable property assets. Drawing on the concept of institutional logics and the use of organisational archetypes, the paper identifies contrasting strategies that London-based housing associations have adopted in response to contemporary challenges. The first, classified as ‘defender’ organisations, represent those who choose to generally retain their stock to leverage finance for future house building and who, in principle, would not countenance property sales. Second, are organisations described as ‘analysers’ who offer pragmatic justifications for the disposal of properties, primarily on economic grounds, arguing that properties are no longer fit for purpose, with proceeds used for replacement stock. The last category represents those depicted as ‘prospectors’ who willingly dispose of their high-valued assets to generate stronger income streams and reposition themselves as institutional entrepreneurs within the housing sector. The paper argues that the strategic decisions taken by these ‘prospector’ housing associations have shaped an agenda, founded on institutional entrepreneurship, to which other organisations are forced to respond. In wider terms, the cumulative effects of selling valuable assets carry the risk of not only undermining core social principles but also potentially exacerbating socio-spatial segregation across the London area.

A spatial agent-based model of a congestion game: evolutionary game theory in space

This paper develops a theoretical framework to analyze traffic congestion from a micro-behavioral foundation perspective. It extends the evolution of an n-person prisoner’s dilemma within actual geographical space, integrating an agent-based model with GIS, in conflicting spatial interactions that ultimately lead to the decline of cooperation. The spatial agent-based model captures the response strategies of autonomous individuals in a landscape that contextualizes both the natural and the built environment. The result suggests that the loss of context preservation could lead to the extinction of cooperation, the opposite of the earlier findings. This theoretical framework thus serves as a basis for the analysis of collective strategic decisions about the use of a common resource from a game theoretical perspective.

Valdymo sprendimų įtaka infekcinių ligų ir tuberkuliozės ligoninės raidai

Straipsnyje nagrinėjama valdymo sprendimų įtaka naujo tipo specializuotosios ligoninės, sujungimo būdu įsteigtos orientuojantis į sveikatos priežiūros įstaigų restruktūrizavimo modelį, raidai. Ligoninės raida siejama su veiklos analize, veiksmingumo vertinimu, naujų vadybos priemonių taikymu. Atsižvelgiama į pagrindinių veiklos rodiklių (pacientų skaičius, lovų skaičius, lovos užimtumas, lovos apyvarta, vidutinė gydymo trukmė) atitiktį restruktūrizavimo strategijos siekinius nuo ligoninės įsteigimo 2003 m. iki integracijos į Vilniaus universiteto ligoninę Santariškių klinikas (toliau – VUL SK) ir VUL SK sudėtyje. Siūlomos į procesus orientuotos veiklos veiksmingumo ir vadovavimo kokybės vertinimo priemonės.

Systems Analysis of Robust Strategic Decisions to Plan Secure Food, Energy, and Water Provision Based on the Stochastic Globiom Model

The paper focuses on the development of adequate approaches to the systems analysis of geographically-explicit robust decisions for long-term consistent management of interdependent land use systems. We introduce a stochastic partial equilibrium Global Biosphere Management Model (GLOBIOM) enabling to analyze secure food, energy, and water provision accounting for interdependencies between countries and global diversification of systemic risks.

Comparative analysis of strategic and tactical decisions in agriculture under the IAS 41 Standard

The International Accounting Standard 41 (IAS 41) provides information about agricultural activity respectively biological assets and agricultural produce at harvest. In this paper we propose to achieve a brief comparative analysis of strategic and tactical decisions that must be considered when applying the IAS 41.

Strategic Behavior: Case Study of an Organization from the Brazilian Ethanol Industry

The purpose of this paper is to understand the strategic behavior of an organization from the Brazilian ethanol industry. Specifically, this paper aimed to describe how the organization’s entrance in the Brazilian ethanol industry occurred, and to identify the organization’s positioning and strategic behavior through the application of Miles and Snow (1978) typology. Using a qualitative research design, a case study was conducted, based on documental research and semistructured interviews with three directors from the studied organization. We also utilized a structured questionnaire elaborated by Conant et al. (1990) and adapted by Gardelin (2010), aiming to categorize the strategies adopted by the organization. The results showed that the organization has a hybrid behavior pattern, varying from investigative to analytical, characterizing its strategic behavior through a dual strategy: on one hand, the organization investigates the environment and its competitive industry, introducing an innovative perspective in its external and internal operations; and on the other hand, the organization analyzes these internal and external contexts seeking a more effective positioning in national and international markets. Thus, Miles and Snow typology presents itself as an important research tool for the analysis and adoption of certain strategic positioning and decision making, establishing itself as a frame of reference for studies that seek to understand the strategic organizational reality.

Comportamento Estratégico: Estudo de Caso em uma Organização do Setor Sucroenergético Brasileiro

The purpose of this paper is to understand the strategic behavior of an organization from the Brazilian ethanol industry. Specifically, this paper aimed to describe how the organization’s entrance in the Brazilian ethanol industry occurred, and to identify the organization’s positioning and strategic behavior through the application of Miles and Snow (1978) typology. Using a qualitative research design, a case study was conducted, based on documental research and semistructured interviews with three directors from the studied organization. We also utilized a structured questionnaire elaborated by Conant et al. (1990) and adapted by Gardelin (2010), aiming to categorize the strategies adopted by the organization. The results showed that the organization has a hybrid behavior pattern, varying from investigative to analytical, characterizing its strategic behavior through a dual strategy: on one hand, the organization investigates the environment and its competitive industry, introducing an innovative perspective in its external and internal operations; and on the other hand, the organization analyzes these internal and external contexts seeking a more effective positioning in national and international markets. Thus, Miles and Snow typology presents itself as an important research tool for the analysis and adoption of certain strategic positioning and decision making, establishing itself as a frame of reference for studies that seek to understand the strategic organizational reality.

Comparative Analysis of Strategic and Tactical Decisions in Agriculture under the IAS 41 Standard in the Context of the Emerging Markets

The International Accounting Standard 41 (IAS 41) provides information about agricultural activity respectively biological assets and agricultural produce at harvest. In this paper we propose to achieve a brief comparative analysis of strategic and tactical decisions that must be considered when applying the IAS 41. The provisions of the IAS 41 are however not directly reflected in Romanian regulations. With the increasing number of forest land transactions and foreign investment in farms it is expected that the recognition and evaluation of biological assets under the IAS 41 becomes a necessity (Feleagă et al., 2012). The Order approving the Accounting Regulations in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards applicable to companies whose securities are admitted to trading on a regulated market, introduces a new category of non current assets in Romanian accounting, the one of biological asset and a new class of current assets to inventories, the one of agricultural produce (Dumitru and Hagiu, 2013).

Hotel marketing strategies in turbulent times: Path analysis of strategic decisions

The hotel industry has been hit hard by the economic recession. Given the economic challenges facing businesses have not been seen since the Great Depression, hotel executives are making unstructured or first-time decisions, responding to the current business climate. Using McCracken's (1988) long interview method, four Pacific Asia hotel executives provide insights of how two major hotel chains develop new strategies in these turbulent times. To provide structure to these insights, Mintzberg, Raisinghani, and Théorêt's (1976) unstructured strategic decision making model provides a template to map problems or opportunities and alternative development and selection.

Towards a liberalised European high speed railway sector: Analysis and modelling of competition using Game Theory

IntroductionThe liberalisation of the Railways imposed by European Directives introduces competition in a sector traditionally organised largely through national monopolies. As a result, the analysis of the competition particularly on a given route is very recent.ApproachThe approach and methodologies so far developed to analyse the competition between European rail operators have resulted in interesting but isolated efforts. Developments based on game theory and analysis of strategic decision as part of the organisational economics theory have proven to be the most appropriate. This paper introduces an improvement on these methodologies by using the principles of consumer behaviour theory and the analysis capabilities of game theory to develop a dedicated purpose-built modelling tool for the analysis of intermodal competition within the operator’s revenue function. To validate the model, a forecast analysis on the Madrid-Barcelona high speed corridor has been performed.ConclusionsThe resulting model allows quantifying the minimum requirements for a new operator to stay in the market as well as the equilibrium price and level of investment required.