Strategic Practices Research Articles

THE INFLUENCE OF CORPORATE CULTURE AND ITS ENVIRONMENT TO WARD THE ENTREPRENEURSHIP ORIENTATION AND MARKETING STRATEGY AND ITS IMPACT TO THE PERFORMANCE OF A COMPANY AT CIPUTRA GROUP

The growth of the property industry makes one of the companies engaged in the property sector such as Ciputra Group have many competitors that are starting to emerge. In this case, the strategy is very important for Ciputra Group, considering that sales in the first semester of 2015 decreased by 90 percent. This makes PT Ciputra Development Tbk implement a market expansion strategy especially the middle to lower segments. The Company also needs to concern the strategic marketing management practices to ensure that the strategies are suitable to be established within the organization.
 The purpose of this study is to prove and analyze the influence of the corporate culture and its environment toward the company performance by mediating entrepreneurial agreements and marketing strategies at Ciputra Group.
 This research based on the time of the observation, named crossectional study, and the type of the usefulness named explanatory study. The research was conducted at Ciputra Group Company in August till September 2018. The sample population was 148 subsidiary companies from PT Ciputra Development Tbk. The data analysis technique used Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) with AMOS V24 software.
 The result of the analysis provide a conclusion that the company's environment has a significant effect on entrepreneurship orientation and company’s performance, but it has no effect on marketing strategy. Corporate culture only has a significant effect on entrepreneurship orientation and marketing strategy, while there is no directly significant effect toward the company‘s performance. Furthermore, entrepreneurship orientation and marketing strategy have a significant effect to the company’s performance.

Strategic Program Development Practices to Enhance Grassroots 55-65+ Small-sided Football in Diverse International Contexts: The Art, Science and Politics of Implementation

A significant growth in grassroots 55-65+ seniors’ small-sided football (e.g., 3v3, 4v4, 5v5, 6v6/futsal and walking football) programs has emerged in diverse settings on a global scale. Given the ad hoc nature of many program offerings to meet the unique needs and circumstances of older players, very little research has examined strategic program development practices to enhance and sustain participation in seniors’ small-sided football. Strategic program development is a complex and multifaceted process that provides a critical foundation for both quality assurance and quality enhancement. Case study research using multiple-case design suggests that no one size fits all, and that strategic program development draws upon a wide range of iterative and responsive program context, program planning, program leadership/coaching, and program impact assessment strategies to enhance and sustain player participation. This paper provides a conceptual framework and practical examples for strategic program development practices in diverse grassroots 55-65+ small-sided football contexts.

Strategic relationship management and civic information in an activist organization

This study examines the organizational practices of CODEPINK: Women for Peace, a social activist organization, between January 1 and October 1, 2018 to understand the organization’s strategic data-driven practices during activist campaigns. The results provide important insights into the mechanisms a digital-grassroots organization takes to spread civic information to users for political participation. In a series of semi-structured interviews, analyzed with content-analysis, respondents indicated organizational practices that included the use of a non-partisan political customer relationship management (CRM) platform, social matching, and interest-based targeted emailing. CODEPINK uses these tools to help facilitate support for fundraising, direct marketing, and organizing campaigns. Understanding how social movement organizations use media innovations to support their action repertoires provides a better framework for understanding modern-day activist practices.

The Strategic Practice of “Fiesta” in a Latino Protestant Church: Religious Racialization and the Performance of Ethnic Identity

AbstractFounded and led by a U.S.‐born white pastor, Amor Poderoso is a nondenominational, evangelical megachurch in El Paso, Texas, almost entirely composed of Mexican‐Americans, recent Mexican immigrants, and current Mexican citizens. Ethnographic fieldwork from 2014 to 2017, supplemented with interviews with pastors, worship leaders, and attendees, reveal that much of congregational life orients around intentionally showcasing “Mexican” culture through sounds, images, and artifacts that appropriate an array of idealized ethnic references (e.g., food, dress, mannerisms, clichés) from Northern Mexico. Ongoing ethnic displays do not originate spontaneously or impromptu from membership but rather serve as a form of tactical authenticity derived from U.S. racial schemas mobilized by congregational leaders as a distinctive religious resource. Weekly worship services featuring dialect‐inflected Spanish preaching and singing project ethnic signals that elicit connections to both a common ancestral heritage and a common religious identity. In short, church leaders at this southern border Latino church deliberately deploy sounds, images, and artifacts to assert racialized performances of being “Mexican” for distinctly religious purposes, especially evangelization. In the process, the distinctive practices of religious racialization effectively structure church members’ ethnic and religious identities around racial tropes to buttress a cogent corporate identity for enacting institutionalized evangelical narratives and legitimating charismatic authority.

Impact of Age Management on Sustainability in Czech Organisations

Age management is becoming an increasingly important part of strategic human resources management practices and can ultimately lead to a competitive advantage. Research results confirmed that a strategic focus on the efficient use of all age categories of employees yields retention, the successful achievement of organisation goals, development, and, ultimately, a competitive advantage. The aim of this article is to identify and evaluate approaches to age management practices in organisations in 1271 organisations in the Czech Republic. Quantitative research was carried out in selected organisations operating over a three-year period. Data was gathered from these organisations and evaluated using descriptive and multidimensional statistics. The results show that those organisations focusing on the application of age management practices achieved a competitive advantage regardless of size or sector of the organisation. Statistical analysis (χ2 test, Cramer’s V, factor analysis) on survey data shows that many of these organisations achieved significant perceived benefits from the application of age management. The approach to age management application varies in organisations depending on whether it is an internal branding of an employer or response to a crisis. Organisations either use of best practices to implement age management or it is a carefully planned process in advance. Follow-up research can focus on the use of age management in crisis management or employer branding. This study is a non-experimental quantitative correlation analysis utilising longitudinal empirical data.

Strategic positioning: How policy research actors situate their intellectual labour to gain symbolic resources from multiple fields

The process of knowledge production involves negotiating several social worlds, whereby actors engage in positioning and repositioning to situate their intellectual labour and gain symbolic resources. This article considers the strategic positioning of policy research actors using interview and document data. It sets out the ways in which individual and institutional actors negotiate and situate their intellectual practice in order to gain capital from a range of relevant fields. The article considers how organisations position themselves in relation to other institutions, and how individual researchers position themselves vis-a-vis their own organisations and others in the hybrid space between more established fields. It demonstrates how identities are constructed in a relational way via comparison and juxtaposition in the liminal space of international development. In doing so, it directs attention to the strategic practices involved in the production of meaningful intellectual interventions.

The Impact of Strategic Human Resource Management Practices on Productivity: The Case of the Malaysian Oil Palm Industry

A substantial body of evidence in management theory and business practice has accumulated to show that Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM) is associated with improved organizational performance. In spite of this evidence, empirical studies have shown that some organizations are slow in implementing those practices. One of the fundamental reasons behind this is the fact that as a body of practical knowledge, SHRM has seemingly lacked any theoretical research framework to underpin it. Thus, this paper is an attempt to address this problem by (1) contributing to theory building in strategic HRM, and (2) empirically testing the hypothesis that SHRM practices affect productivity. This study used a sample of 129 managers of oil palm estates from a national survey of estate managers reflecting the 1998 financial year Using linear regression techniques, the results suggest that (1) estates implement less strategic HI? practices than anticipated, and (2) some strategic HR practices were related to productivity. Managerial implications of the study were discussed.

Deliberate practice in medical education: Concept and application

It is an age-old adage that “Practice makes a man perfect”. This rudiment emphasizes the idea that there is no substitute whatsoever for hard-work in terms of both consistent practice and perseverance, so as to achieve the intended outcomes. Knowledge alone does not and cannot suffice; one needs to indulge in repeated practice so as to reap the fruits of existent knowledge through action. Strategic practice, disciplined training and customized efforts help individuals achieve their goals. In view of this, researchers across the globe stress on a crucial and effective strategy to attain one's peak performances, that is, “Deliberate Practice”. Though, this concept has gained wide popularity and acceptance in non-medical domains, it remains ambiguous, how precisely the principles of deliberate practice can contribute in advancing an individual from novice to expert during and beyond medical training. The current review explores and unleashes the concepts, elements, role and application of deliberate practice in the field of medical education.

Top management's sensemaking as a strategic practice: the case of private organisations as strategic actors in Finnish healthcare changes

The purpose of this study is to examine top management's sensemaking as a strategy practice. Building on the sensemaking perspective (Balogun et al., 2014; Weick, 1995), this research proposes that top management's sensemaking both enables and constrains strategising. This empirical analysis of a key informant interview and publicly available materials examines the sensemaking that constructs the role of the private healthcare service industry in Finland. This in-depth analysis of sensemaking in top management contributes to the literature on sensemaking in strategic management by adding empirical evidence on the role of language in strategy making.

The Portuguese model of determinants that make up the management consultancy sector

In a historical retrospective, and although the literature entitles the management consultancy industry as an extraordinary industry and a unique phenomenon in the business context, these statements are not accompanied by a number of academic studies that highlight the importance of the effective work of management consultants. To battle the lack of studies in this emerging field, this article aims to build a determinant model that helps to understand this specific sector. The results of empirical analysis in the form of semi-structured interviews and questionnaires given to management consultants and managers of SMEs in Portugal, show that the activity of strategic consultants, mediated by strategic practices, bring in fact to the research of the strategy-as-practice a new direction in strategic thinking. It shows that consultant sector could be viewed as a key factor in the development of knowledge between different sectors in organisations, a knowledge intensive activity, a specialist sector having consultants with the title of specialists and, consultants that could be considered as practical strategists.

Top management's sensemaking as a strategic practice: the case of private organisations as strategic actors in Finnish healthcare changes

Top management's sensemaking as a strategic practice: the case of private organisations as strategic actors in Finnish healthcare changes

Тернистый путь стратегического планирования в современной России

The article considers strategic planning practices in Russia since the transition to market economy. The authors assess the outcomes of federal strategies and the possible causes of their incomplete implementation. The study reviews the development of legislation on strategic planning and the problems and contradictions associated with the implementation of the laws, including the subfederal level. The course of development of the project format of strategic documents (national projects, etc.) and the reasons that led to the strengthening of its role, despite the lack of legislative registration, are also presented. Based on the results of the review, a characteristic is given of the current state of the strategic planning system, which is assessed as unstable and transitional, and possible directions for its further development are noted. The interest in strategic planning over the past three decades has been generated by objective long-term challenges. They are largely due to the need to take into account long-term trends in demographic, technological, environmental, climatic, spatial, infrastructural, geopolitical and other areas where there are problems and tasks that can only be solved by coordinated planning of actions for many years to come.

A structure analysis of Chinese iron and steel industry based on Jingyou evaluation of performances of listed companies

With the value ideology of modern strategic management, a new industrial structure analysis method was proposed based on the Jingyou theory rather than the traditional competitive mechanism in this paper, and then it was carried out to apply it to the performance data of the listed companies in the first quarter of 2017 in order to explain the structural feature of Chinese iron and steel industry. Such analysis results as the distributive feature of enterprise groups in industry, the main developing mode of industry, the identification of benchmarks and partners will be helpful to the detailed explanation of structural feature of industry under the objective law of development of things and contribute to solve some important problems in the modern corporate strategic management practice.

How does human resource department's client relationship management affect sustainable enterprise performance - in the context of artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) has penetrated into many fields. How to construct strategic human resources management practices under the background of AI technology has gained great attentions from many researchers in the world. Consequently, the conception of human resource department's client relationship management (HRDCRM) has been put forward. HRDCRM is a focus topic in the practice areas of strategic human resource management. This paper introduced relational capital as a mediating variable and collected two-wave lagged data (N = 235) from the enterprises located in eastern and southern China to conduct an empirical research on relational capital's mediate role by which HRDCRM influences sustainable enterprise performance. Empirical results reveal that under the control of enterprise's ownership and lifecycle-stage, relational capital plays a partial mediate role in the influence of HRDCRM on sustainable enterprise performance. Therefore, the key to improving sustainable enterprise performance is developing the level of HRDCRM and promoting harmonious development between HRDCRM and relational capital.

Strategic human resource management in small and medium enterprises

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are seen as one of the main drivers of economic growth in the modern economy that is characterised with free markets, private ownership, entrepreneurship, and a major change in the basic approach to business and management. As a result, human capital is regarded as the most important asset, and therefore, in order to grow and prosper, SMEs need to embrace the strategic approach to the human resource management (HRM) which should, in return, increase their competitiveness and responsiveness to the market changes. The aim of this study was to analyse the influence of strategic human resource (HR) practices on organisational performance. The results of hierarchical regression used to test the hypothesis supported the relationship between strategic HR practices and business performance. The findings presented in this study were used for making recommendations to the SMEs' managers in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Exploring the process of strategic planning in emergency management

This study examined the strategic planning practices of county-level emergency management agencies (EMAs) throughout the USA, with a focus on the strategic planning process. A theoretical framework was developed by reviewing the literature on public sector strategic planning and identifying the features that characterise 'high quality' strategic planning. The analysis revealed that success in using strategic planning in the public sector depended on the inclusion of key planning components, the availability of advanced planning capabilities, strong planning process leadership, broad planning process participation, and post-strategic planning integration and implementation. Using this framework, the study found considerable variation in the underlying structure and characteristics of the strategic planning processes used by county-level EMAs. The data revealed that while many county-level EMAs attempted to undertake and fully execute most, if not all, of the components of strategic planning, they often struggled with inadequate planning capabilities, leadership, participation, and post-planning integration and implementation.

Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome - Liaoning Province, China, 1999-2018.

What is already known on this topic? Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) is endemic in Liaoning Province. Both Seoul and Hantaan virus are circulating in rodents, and epidemic outbreaks and sporadic cases have been recorded every year since the disease was recognized. What is added by this report? The epidemic trend of HFRS over the past 20 years (1999–2018) in Liaoning was analyzed, which showed both regional complexity and consistence with the epidemic in China. Genetic and antigenic stability of the circulating hantavirus were demonstrated, which suggested the effectiveness of the approved inactivated vaccine currently used in China. What are the implications for public health practice? Precise risk-based strategic practices that are integrated and regional are required for further improvement of the prevention and control of HFRS.

A Estratégia Como Prática em Diferentes Ritmos: um Estudo do Strategizing em Bandas Musicais

Este artigo propõe um diálogo entre a estratégia como prática social e os estudos culturais, especificamente a articulação entre estilos e identidades, a partir da questão: como práticas de estilo moldam o strategizing de bandas musicais? Para tanto, foi realizada uma pesquisa de campo com 11 bandas musicais, orientada pelo método de múltiplos casos e por uma abordagem qualitativa. Os dados foram coletados com a aplicação da técnica de entrevistas com músicos e empresários, da pesquisa documental em websites e da análise de foto/imagem das bandas. Os resultados mostram que as bandas desenvolvem quatro práticas estratégicas centrais: (a) identidade sonora; (b) identidade estética; (c) coletivo de identidades e habilidades dos músicos (formação e composição da banda); e (d) identidade econômica (crescimento e popularização da banda). Essas práticas são conduzidas a partir de rotinas interativas, comportamentais/comunicacionais, procedimentos de aprendizagem e uso de instrumentos de gestão. É no fluxo dessas práticas que se constitui a estratégia artística da banda: um complexo de ações e instrumentos visando reconhecimento artístico e resultados comerciais no contexto cultural da época. A pesquisa mostra que a abordagem cultural do strategizing é um caminho promissor para conectar diferentes níveis de análise e temas de pesquisa ainda pouco presentes nos estudos da estratégia como prática social: práticas culturais de estilo e interações entre identidades individuais e coletivas em organizações e manifestações culturais.

Systemic Evaluation of the Threats to the Strategy of Technological Development of Russia

The article is devoted to the study of factors that inhibit the creation of knowledge and technologies, as well as usage and diffusion in the Russian economy and that pose the threats to the technological development of the country. The study is based on the system economic theory methodology, which involve system analysis methods studying the economy and society as an integrated socio-economic system in its unity and mutual dependence of key subsystems. This approach is aimed to receive evaluation reflecting the real static and dynamic picture of all sectors that contribute to the creation of innovation: production, monetary systems, institutional environment, science, education and society. The risk zones are depicted in the diagram of the strategic planning and governance inherent Russian practice. From a systemic point of view, the conclusions are that the objective system evaluation should be in the basis of the strategy. Inadequate quality of planning, ignoring system linkages and interactions in decision-making, use of incorrect data as well as other defective governance actions pose a significant threat to the development of the Russian Federation. The directions for further research in order to reduce the risks of technological development strategy are proposed in the paper. The proposals concern improvement in both evaluation methods and the metrics of the socio-economic system characteristics, which can give the truth picture of the system, and the concept of strategizing changes in non-stationary economy.The author declare no conflict of interest.

Conceptual Aspects of Strategic Regional Development Management

The presented study examines the conceptual aspects of strategic regional management.Aim. Based on the analysis of the theory and practice of regional management, the study aims to propose a generic concept for formulating a strategy for the development of a constituent entity of the Russian Federation.Tasks. The author analyzes theoretical approaches to strategic regional management; determines the conditions and factors that affect strategic regional management; formulates the rational principles of strategic regional management; identifies the causes of disproportions in the development of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation.Methods. This study uses systems analysis, synthesis, induction and deduction, specification and generalization, analogy and modeling.Results. A generic concept of strategic regional management is proposed, which classifies the basic system components of the external and internal environment of a constituent entity of the Russian Federation. Practical recommendations for improving the regional development strategy of are formulated. Analysis of the current state of strategic regional management practices in Russia shows that efficient work of regional authorities in the field of strategic management can compensate for a lack of resources and partially outweigh an unfavorable investment climate.Conclusions. It is advisable for administrative and territorial units to develop and implement systematic medium-term development strategies adequate to the national regional policy and based on the current and projected availability of all kinds of resources and analysis of the factors of the external (in relation to the region) and internal environment, to continuously control and verify the implementation of the said strategies according to the pre-emptively developed efficiency criteria (monitoring) with the aim to improve the living standards of the population and maintain the highly competitive status of the managed unit within the regional economy.