Strategy under the microscope: strategic management and IT in financial services

Article Abstract:

This article subjects the organizational theory literature on corporate strategy to critical scrutiny, arguing that both the 'rational' and 'processual' approaches to strategy generate analyses that are ahistorical and theoretically undeveloped. In their place, but focusing specifically on the financial services, we offer an alternative genealogically informed analysis. This indicates how the historical development of strategy discourses and practices are discontinuous and uneven across countries, sectors, companies and specialist spheres. In addition it suggests that corporate strategy has considerable impact on inter-organizational relations and both 'internal' (i.e. management and employees) and 'external' (i.e. consumers) members of the organization. The article seeks to illustrate its arguments both at the sectoral level by examining the development of strategic discourse in banks and insurance companies and at the organizational level by providing some case study material on IT strategy in a life insurance company. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Research, Planning, Strategic planning (Business), Information management

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Co-evolution in strategic renewal behaviour of British, Dutch and French financial incumbents: interaction of environmental selection, institutional effects and managerial intentionality

Article Abstract:

Research on the financial services sector of three European countries shows that incumbent firms prefer exploitation renewal actions, and that national institutional environments influence the degree to which incumbents prefer external and/or internal renewal actions. The influence of managerial intentionality is also discussed.

Netherlands, France, Operations Research, Comparative analysis, Management research, Organizational behavior, Organizational behaviour

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The changing Japanese multinational: Application, adaptation and learning in car manufacturing and financial services

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The authors examine the changes in Japanese international companies' management of their subsidiaries; subsidiaries are use for innovation and learning more and more.

Japan, Multinational Corporations, Analysis, International business enterprises, Automobile industry

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