Success in Changing Environments

Strategies and Key Influencing Factors
2007
ISBN: 978-3-8350-0515-0
Verlag: Deutscher Universitätsverlag

Buch, Englisch, 229 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 365 g

Reihe: Research in Management Accounting & Control

To ensure their long-term survival and prosperity, many industries have to deal with increasingly dynamic and complex environments. Due to this situation, they are confronted with major challenges.

Manuela Stoll investigates why some firms cope with change successfully, while others do not. She focuses on two strategies to address change: adapting to change and creating change. Using a large-scale survey among top executives of manufacturing firms in Germany, she evaluates the importance of a range of resources, competences, and “isolating mechanisms” (shields against imitation) for the success of these strategies. The results show that adapting to change has an important effect on firm performance and is mainly influenced by a firm’s industry foresight abilities. A separate analysis illustrates how these abilities can be strengthened.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stoll, Manuela

Weitere Mitwirkende

Schäffer, Prof. Dr. Utz

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Betriebliches Energie- und Umweltmanagement
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltmanagement, Umweltökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Theoretical Foundation.- Research Model and Propositions.- Empirical Test of the Research Model.- Discussion and Outlook.

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Manuela Stoll promovierte bei Prof. Dr. Utz Schäffer am Lehrstuhl für Controlling der European Business School, Oestrich-Winkel. Sie ist in den Bereichen Risikomanagement und Konsumgüter bei McKinsey & Company tätig.