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Chapter nine
Part 3:
strategic implementation
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Learning Objectives
After reading this chapter, you should have
a good understanding of:
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Learning Objectives
After reading this chapter, you should
have a good understanding of:
The benefits of having the proper
balance among the three levers of
behavioral control: culture, rewards
and incentives, and boundaries.
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Learning Objectives
After reading this chapter, you should
have a good understanding of:
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Behavioral control
Concerned with whether or not the
organization is doing things right in
the implementation of its strategy
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Informational Control
Deals with internal environment and
external strategic context
Key question
Do the organizations goals and
strategies still fit within the context of
the current strategic environment?
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Informational Control
Traditional
approach
Understandi
ng of the
assumption
base is an
initial step in
the process of
strategy
formulation
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Contemporary
approach
Information control
is part of an ongoing
process of
organizational
learning that
updates and
challenges the
assumptions
underlying the firms
strategy
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Informational Control
The Firms
Update and challenge the
assumptions
Contemporary Continuously
Control System Monitor
Test
Review
Assumptions
Premises
Goals
Strategies
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Behavioral Control
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Contemporary
approach
A balance between
Culture
Rewards
Boundaries
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Maintaining an effective
culture
Storytelling
Rallies or pep talks by
top executives
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Man
agem
Management
(led
ent
b
yC
(led by
CEO)
EO)
Board of
Directors
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Corporate governance
Relationship among
The shareholders
The management (led by the
Chief Executive Officer)
The board of directors
Issue is
How corporations can succeed
(or fail) in aligning managerial
motives with
The interests of the
shareholders
The interests of the board of
directors
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Management
(led by CEO)
Limited liability
Participate in the profits of the
enterprise
Limited involvement in the
companys affairs
Management
Run the company
Does not personally have to
provide the funds
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Management
(led by CEO)
Board of directors
Elected by
shareholders
Fiduciary obligation to
protect shareholder
interests
Board of
Directors
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Agency Theory
Deals with the relationship
between
Principals who are
owners of the firm
(stockholders), and the
Agents who are the
people paid by principals to
perform a job on their behalf
(management)
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Shareholder activism
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Executives
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