Technology's varying impact on the success of strategic business units within the Miles and Snow typology

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The effect of technology on organizations' strategic adjustment to their environment is examined within the Miles and Snow (1978) framework. The model assumes that firms develop stable strategies for adjustment involving entrepreneurial, engineering and administrative phases. The first involves the identification of new opportunities, the second operationalizes the former's results and the last institutionalizes the innovative capacity thus developed. The second phase necessarily involves technological choice of products, services and production and distribution processes. Firms' business strategies determine their technological gains: market analyzers maximize profits from innovations in the short-run; prospectors make heavy technological investments that pay only in the long-run; and defenders of market share profit from innovations both in the short- and long-term.

Manufacturing industries, not elsewhere classified, Management, Business, Innovations, High technology industry, Technology

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Conceptual maps of the leading MBA programs in the United States: core courses, concentration areas, and the ranking of the school

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An analysis used the Co-plot method to describe and compare the structure of the MBA programs in 25 major business schools, and examine the interrelationships among these programs at the beginning of the MBA revolution during the 1990s. This study has a twofold purpose. The first objective is to ascertain the presence of an identifiable grouping of business school strategies as evidenced by the MBA program structure. The other is to determine the existence of a relationship between the curriculum design of MBA programs and school rank. Using the Co-plot method, the schools were mapped in terms of the 1993 structure of their core courses and areas of concentration. The maps reflect similarities among business schools and indicate their 1994 rankings. Findings demonstrate that the content of the program structure does not independently lead to better performance.

Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools, Colleges and universities, Business and Secretarial Schools, Masters & First Professional Degrees, Business & Secretarial Schools, Analysis, Evaluation, Universities and colleges, Master of business administration degree, Curricula, Business schools

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