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Miller, Susain, Hickson, David John and Wilson, David C. (2008) From strategy to action involvement and influence in top level decisions. Long Range Planning, Vol.41 (No.6). pp. 606-628. doi:10.1016/j.lrp.2008.09.005
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lrp.2008.09.005
Abstract
Who are the key people involved in making and implementing the big decisions that set the strategic direction for a firm? Do those who decide also see things through to implementation - and who amongst them wields the most influence? Drawing on data from a study of the making and implementing of 55 decisions in 14 UK public and private sector organizations, this research aims to discover who is involved in creating and who in maintaining organisations' strategic initiatives, and who has most - and least - influence. The findings are that who is most often in, and who is most often out, is remarkably constant across every kind of organization. There is a core and periphery of strategic actors: in most organisations production/service delivery and marketing, together with the CEO, are the heavyweights, but finance and suppliers also help set the direction. This article therefore identifies the group that bears much of the responsibility for the success, or otherwise, of strategic decisions in organisations.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management | ||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Marketing & Strategic Management Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology |
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| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Business planning, Marketing -- Management, Management -- Decision making | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Long Range Planning | ||||
| Publisher: | Elsevier | ||||
| ISSN: | 0024-6301 | ||||
| Official Date: | December 2008 | ||||
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| Volume: | Vol.41 | ||||
| Number: | No.6 | ||||
| Number of Pages: | 23 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 606-628 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.lrp.2008.09.005 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
| Funder: | U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences | ||||
| Grant number: | DAJA 45-89-C-0037 (ARI) |
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