Strategic Management Strategy Research Articles

Microbiome Dynamics and Strategic Management Strategies: Exploring Synergies between Integrative Medicine Modalities and Microbial Balance

Microbiome Dynamics and Strategic Management Strategies: Exploring Synergies between Integrative Medicine Modalities and Microbial Balance

Soil Acidity Challenges to Crop Production in Ethiopian Highlands and Management Strategic Options for Mitigating Soil Acidity for Enhancing Crop Productivity

Soil degradation is the primary restriction affecting many developing countries' agricultural systems. Ethiopia is a developing country in horn Africa that is severely challenged by soil degradation issues. The main processes of soil deterioration are acidification and salinization. Furthermore, soil acidity is one of the primary reasons obstructing and preventing lucrative and sustainable agricultural productivity in many African countries as well as many other regions of the world. Soil acidity problems have hampered sustainable agricultural productivity in practically all productive areas in Ethiopia. The main goal of the seminar is to highlight the problems of soil acidity to agricultural production in Ethiopia's highlands, as well as management strategies for alleviating soil acidity and increasing crop output. Soil acidity affects over half of Ethiopia's arable land. Strong acid soils cover more than half of the arable land affected by soil acidity. Researchers discovered two primary reasons that limit acidic soil fertility: the presence of phytotoxicity substances and nutrient shortage. Numerous strategic soil acid management plans have been created to address these issues in the country's highlands.. Several studies have been undertaken on soil management, which influences the physiochemical qualities of the soil and crop productivity in various ways. Thus, the primary goal of this seminar is to emphasize various literatures on the ideas of soil acidity, its causes and extents in highland areas of the country, as well as its impacts on soil and crop productivity through strategic management strategies. Many findings suggested that liming and ISFM improved soil physiochemical parameters such as soil texture, pH, accessible P, exchangeable acidity, organic carbon, exchangeable cation, cation exchange capacity, and crop yield and productivity.

Futures Thinking: Strategy Used by Health Care Organization to Survive Economic Collapse During the Great Recession of 2008

This case tells how a leader of a health care institution used systems thinking as a foresight tool to help survive the Great Recession of 2008. The original study on which this case is based sought to understand the essence of leaders’ interior response to the Great Recession of 2008 with regard to sustainability and leadership. The impact of the Great Recession of 2008 on organizational leaders with regards to sustainable policy making was examined by addressing: (a) how sustainability is defined, (b) the philosophy that underlies sustainable thinking within organizations, (c) leadership elements that are important to sustainable implementation, and (d) how system breaking points provide the opportunity for sustainable transformation. Due to the leader’s systems thinking perspective, several behavior themes emerged. Organizational policies were then developed to help institutionalize these behaviors, and which prepared the organization for a successful and sustainable response to the oncoming catastrophe. Strategic management strategies, supporting futures thinking, ultimately guided and stabilized the organization throughout this economic crisis, effectively leading to future growth.