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Talent Management (TM) has emerged as a key strategic issue for global organizations. Despite the growth of global sports entities, research on TM in this context is scarce. This paper addresses th...

The Fabrication (Fab) layout design is a strategic issue and has a significant impact on the operational efficiency of semiconductor manufacturing. This research work was motivated by the actual pr...

Management of chemotherapies is a strategic issue for european healthcare. Dose-banding enables to reduce waiting time of patients in day care units and drug wastage. The aim of this study was to assess the stability of 5-Fluorouracile (5-FU) at standardised rounded doses of 4 and 5 g in MyFuser® portable infusion pump for in-advance preparation. Ten MyFuser® (4 and 5 gr 5-FU added to NaCl 0.9%) were prepared under aseptic conditions and stored at room temperature (23 ± 2 °C) for 28 days then at 30 °C for three days. Physical stability tests were periodically performed: visual and microscopic inspection, pH measurements and optical densities. The concentration of solutions was measured by High Performance Liquid Chromatography/UV detector. Results confirm the stability of 5-FU at selected SRD of 4 g and 5 g with NaCl 0.9% in MyFuser® for at least 28 days at room temperature and three days at 30 °C, allowing in-advance preparation.

This study joins the scholarly discussion that uses strategy in media management and provides a developed framework of strategic issues. This paper assists organisations in overcoming uncertainty by helping them construct issues and not impose the opportunity or threat labels on ill-defined issues. Based on a qualitative case study of two newspapers that represent an industry in disruption, this paper extends the existing conceptual framework on strategic issues by providing an additional strategic issue label, amorphous issues, that captures the uncertainties organisation members face during periods of disruption. Moreover, this paper also illustrates how the construction of issues can change over time. This emphasises the dynamic nature of strategic issues construction, which more closely aligns with the disruptive environment in which many contemporary organisations operate.

This study investigates strategy formation in complex organizations by empirically tracking the evolution of strategic issues in hospitals. Given the utmost importance of successfully integrating s...

Our study examines how the public service mission in media is being redefined as a strategic issue in legacy public broadcasting firms. Our research interest particularly focuses on the challenge o...

Corporate branding is a strategic issue for universities as the global higher education (HE) marketplace is becoming increasingly competitive and there is pressure to differentiate. Yet it is unclear how universities develop and manage brand strategies, and whether they draw upon any meaningful connections to the multiple stakeholders and sub-cultures engaged with a university’s brand. Using qualitative data gathered from an education faculty within an established UK university, this study found the faculty and university had competing brand identities and images. A strong faculty brand emerged co-created through the shared teacher related values of staff and external partners. This study contributes to the brand strategy literature by applying branding concepts to the under-researched HE context and proposing a new, more nuanced brand architecture model not yet reported in the branding literature which more accurately reflects the management of sub and corporate HE brands.

From 7 to 8 December 2016, a forensic summit was held at the AFP facilities in Canberra under the theme of ‘Towards 2030’. The aim of that summit was to critically evaluate, through plenary presentations and five discussion forums, how the forensic science capability of Australia and New Zealand is placed to respond to a dynamic and complex future. One of the discussion forums met under the theme Core Capability and Capacity. The group was tasked with addressing questions such as: what is forensic science and what are our main objectives? What are our core capabilities? Are they changing or likely to change towards 2030? This article presents a high level summary of the discussion held around the strategic issue of capability and capacity. It concludes with statements representing the outcomes of the working group discussions. From these statements, recommendations will be developed to influence future work by the forensic science community of Australia and New Zealand.

This paper systematically examines the academic literature on international market entry mode (hereafter MEM). Ever since the first issue of the first volume of the Journal of Strategic Marketing this has been a topic of much discussion and research from scholars interested in strategic marketing issues here and elsewhere (Gannon, M, 1993; Crick and Crick, 2013).

Sewer systems are complex and large structures located under the ground. Their good functioning is a strategic issue which requires regular inspections and maintenance operations. These interventions involve important risks and constraints regarding health and security of operators as well as accessibility to structures and cost of these operations. In this context, unmanned vehicles offer new opportunities to reduce or simplify human interventions in the sewers. As an example, Suez Water Spain has developed a first prototype of unmanned aerial vehicle dedicated to inspection of underground retention tanks and big sewer pipes. The information collected by the drone are automatically integrated into the information system and the decision-making process. Even if the first tests performed with this drone have been successful, there are still a number of pending technological issues that needs to be solved for operational use: positioning, data transmission, trajectory, etc.

Segessemann A. and Crevoisier O. Beyond economic base theory: the role of the residential economy in attracting income to Swiss regions, Regional Studies. Regional development theories are mainly focused on export-based activities to explain regional competitiveness. The increasing mobility of workers and residents leads to a reconsideration of this approach. Residential economy has become a strategic issue to generate incomes within regions. With this view, the paper analyses the link between economic activities and incomes from workers and annuitants residents. A spatial typology breakdown is compiled for Swiss regions using a hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA). Empirical results highlight various regional development profiles. Conversely to export-based theories, regions with higher income are those with strong residential economy, thus opening new avenues for local governance.

This article examines the adoption of the rights-based approach (RBA) to development at ActionAid International, focusing in particular on its Education Theme. Although there has been a considerable volume of work that examines the rise of RBA, including in the pages of Third World Quarterly, the power dynamics and conflict involved in shifting to RBA have largely gone unnoticed and explored. Using the methodological tools of discourse analysis and social movement theory on strategic issue framing, I examine how ActionAid leadership worked to ‘sell’ RBA to somewhat-resistant staff and partners. I argue that ActionAid struggled to reconcile its commitment to global rights norms with the ongoing needs-based programming at country-level. This raises important questions about the power dynamics involved when an NGO undergoes a process of organisational change, even when, as is the case with RBA, this is widely seen as a progressive and desirable transition.

Selecting starting pitchers is a strategic issue with a significant effect on the performance of a professional team. Choosing optimal starting pitchers from many alternatives is a multi-criteria d...

Communication practitioners in Europe see coping with the digital evolution and the social web as being the most important strategic issue for communication management (other four of the top five i...

This article examines ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) operations in Afghanistan as a way to get at the strategic disconnects in ends, ways, and means that the author believes are endemic to large-scale protracted stability and COIN (counterinsurgency) operations against adversaries who do not pose palpable existential threats to the members of an alliance. The article focuses mainly on the period that followed President Barack Obama's December 2009 announcement of a civilian and military “surge” in Afghanistan through the early stages of the ISAF offensive in Marjah, which began in February 2010. The article concludes that the fundamental strategic issue is that the Allies are not willing (or able) to devote enough resources to achieve their stated objectives. No matter how much the “Ways” might be improved, the “Means” are not sufficient to attain the “Ends.” Thus, what is needed is a more realistic understanding of what ISAF can accomplish in Afghanistan and what NATO might be expected to...

This paper proposes a concept of “culture for internationalization” or “exporting culture,” a highly relevant concept for developing countries' firms that are likely to follow a gradual internationalization process based on the strong relationship that binds the proposed concept to strategy and systemic competitiveness. These two items are paramount for understanding the conditions that underlie internationalization, since it is characterized by particular traits that make it a key alternative for a firm's growth and successful perdurability based on competitiveness. “Culture for internationalization” and its variation, “exporting culture,” overflow into the concepts of organizational or corporate culture, and involve a major interaction among the micro, meso and macro levels of a nation's economy in order to operationalize strategies that promote such culture and assure successful firm and economy internationalization. Discussion remains open as to the concept and its applicability, in the hope ...

Attracting clients who are willing to invest in using a problem structuring method (PSM) can be particularly difficult for the emerging generation of modellers. There are many reasons for this, not least that the benefits of a problem structuring intervention are vague and evidence of benefits are often anecdotal for example, claims of constructing a deeper understanding of the problem or building the commitment of a group to implementing an outcome. This paper contributes to the evaluation of problem structuring methods by reflecting on the quid pro quo that a client and problem structuring modeller can enjoy from collaboration. The paper reflects on 21 cases, where Journey Making (a problem structuring method) was used with 16 organizations to help managers agree a suite of actions to tackle a complex strategic issue. The reflections are clustered around those benefits that pertain to: PSMs in general; PSMs that use computer-supported workshops; the Journey Making methodology.

E-business is a key strategic issue driving Web enablement, and this issue involves management just as much as it does IT. Whereas IT professionals eagerly embrace cutting-edge technology, their business counterparts are more leery of adopting groundbreaking business practices based on new technology. A variety of internal and external roadblocks are preventing many companies from keeping up with the pace of E-business. As emerging technologies are used to conduct E-business, companies must embrace them, or succumb to the competition. the key to success in the emerging E-business economy requires identifying the organizational barriers to E-business and turning them into strengths.

Despite a rapidly expanding literature in the last decade, the question of migration remains a neglected area of research in IPE, global political economy and political geography. In addressing this deficiency, this article seeks to contribute to the growing debate over the links between 'globalization', IPE and the geopolitical economy of migration. Rather than the more 'traditional' focus of IPE, I attempt to integrate different political21 economic scales of analysis (from the regional to the international). Drawing upon an analysis of North African (Maghrebin) migrant workers in the Paris automobile industry, I argue that, first, globalization needs to be placed in historical context in terms of the international/global political economy of migration. Second, I maintain the need to understand migration as a strategic issue within international political economy. Third, I argue that the national state is still relevant as a geopolitical economic 'lens' on the contemporary globalization of migration. An...

Strategic Issue Analysis has been recognized in the strategic planning and management literature as an effective methodology for identifying and analyzing critical issues. This paper reviews several models of strategic issue analysis q d their applicability to past, present, and future issues related to library networking.

Introduction of a new manufacturing technology is a strategic decision. The choice of a proper technology is a strategic issue but the utilization of the new technology depends on tactical and operational considerations. The costs and risks involved depend, among others, on the relative strengths of the current and new manufacturing technologies, and the way the new technology is implemented. In this paper we address strategic, tactical and operational issues as we consider a phased implementation of a Flexible Manufacturing System (FMS). Phased implementation can help by spreading the risks and costs involved over a long period of time. The experience that management gains during the phased implementation process increases the probability of a successful introduction of the new technology. The first step in this endeavor is to introduce the new technology in the form of a Flexible Manufacturing Cell (FMC)that would operate concurrently with the existing technology. We develop a procedure that al...

My university studies first started in the field of chemistry. However, after working for half a year as a student intern in a chromatographic laboratory, I concluded that I did not wish to pursue a career in that field. I began then to search for alternatives, and I soon discovered at MIT a curriculum within the management school based on a new computer modeling technique, ‘system dynamics.’ The group developing this technique was led by Professor Jay W. Forrester, and I went to MIT to earn my PhD under his direction. After completing my degree, I joined the faculty at MIT. There my wife, Dr. Donella Meadows, and I directed a major international project that used system dynamics techniques to create a model that clarified the long-term implications of physical and demographic growth on the planet.