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Creating a strategic center to manage a web of partners

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Successful networks of partners are typically guided by a strong strategic center which is far more than a broker and organizer of contacts. This article examines three special features of the activities of successful central firms and their partners, their ability to create value for themselves and others, the agenda amd core competencies they develop, and the capacity to be innovative by simultaneous strategizing and structuring. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Methods, Partnership, Partnerships, Strategic planning (Business)

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Punctuated and continuous change: the UK water industry

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The differences between punctuated and continuous change in the UK water industry are analyzed. Following privatization, the ten leading firms all faced the same environmental pressures to adjust but applied different approaches. Results show that the response to privatization was not always punctuated. Further, in contrast to previous studies, it is observed that punctuated change processes were not necessarily superior to continuous change.

Water Supply and Irrigation Systems, Water supply, Water Utilities, United Kingdom, Case studies, Environmental aspects, Organizational change

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Strategic Innovation, Corporate Entrepreneurship and Matching Outside-in to Inside-out Approaches to Strategy Research

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Innovation, entrepreneurship and managing change concepts can be integrated using a holistic approach which combines outside-in and inside-out strategies. Inside processes include creating and sustaining change, whilst outside processes include competition. If either of these processes are studied independently, they eventually become impeded.

Management Functions, Management, Business planning

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