Valentina Ivančić

University of Rijeka · Faculty of Economics

This paper examines the links and type of relations between strategic thinking capability and entrepreneurial attitude orientation. Entrepreneurial attitude orientation consists of innovation, personal control, self-esteem and achievement. Strategic thinking capability refers to the ability to use: reframing, reflecting, and system thinking. We sta...

Purpose: Although the implementation process involves employees from different hierarchical levels, previous research on the implementation topic focused mostly on a top management perspective, omitting the perspective of lower hierarchical levels. We believe that employees from different hierarchical levels perceive differently the way the impleme...

For any business, as to grow and prosper, managers must be able to anticipate, recognize and deal with change in the internal and external environment. This paper examines the relationship between the external environment and strategy implementation process, taking into account two perspectives of analysis. The first one defines the impact of envir...

One of the main objectives of the Bologna Declaration is to enhance the quality of higher education based on the comparability of higher education systems of various countries by developing common standards and evaluation criteria in order to create an attractive European Higher Education Area (EHEA). This paper examines, based on the experience of...

The paper examines the relationship between the external environment and strategy implementation process taking into account two aspects. The first aspect defines the impact of environmental characteristics on strategy implementation process. Respondents were asked to evaluate the level of turbulence and complexity of changes in micro and macro env...

Strategy implementation is recognized as the source of frustrations and the black box of strategic management processes. This chapter summarizes research attempts in defining implementation problems and critical factors. Further on, based on previous empirical results, it suggests an integrated strategy implementation model. We suggest that the cor...

This paper examines the links and type of relations between strategic thinking capability and entrepreneurial attitude orientation. Entrepreneurial attitude orientation consists of innovation, personal control, self-esteem and achievement. Strategic thinking capability refers to the ability to use: reframing, reflecting, and system thinking. We sta...

The purpose of this paper is to foster realistic reflections on the importance of stimulating research and development activities within national enterprises employing over 250 employees, based on the experience of prominent individuals, members of the top management team within these enterprises. Within research of the growth of Croatian enterpris...

Referring to previous studies, more than 90% of well formulated strategies fail to be fully implemented (Bonoma 1984; Noble 1999; Nutt 1990; Kaplan, Norton 2005; Speculand 2009). The implementation phase is considered the Achilles’ heel of the strategic management process. Most of strategic planning efforts fail during the implementation phase and...

Vilfredo Pareto (1848- 1923) studying the inequality of welfare distribution in Italy during the nineteenth century developed a useful tool named „the principle 80:20“ which was later adopted in many fields to explain that a small number of causes can be responsible for a large percentage of effects. The principle can be applied to indicate the pri...

The concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is increasingly present in the economic literature and helping to explain interactions between the economic entity and environment. Therefore, according to the contemporary economic conditions, it is necessary to accept the complementarity of both business and social goals. Social and firm welfar...

The strategic management process implies the management staff has at least three engagements: define, conduct and evaluate applied strategy. However, the most common reasons of firm bankruptcy are linked to wrong implementation and that’s why implementation is often defined as the Achills heel of the strategic management process (Roney, 2004, p. 23...

Svrha rada je ukazati na važnost istraživanja te razvoja i primjene dobivenih rezultata prije svega u nacionalnim poduzećima za potrebe nacionalnog tržišta. Istodobno se postavlja pitanje je li inovacija ili rano prihvaćanje inovacije specifičan put rasta hrvatskoga gospodarstva koje je posljedica djelovanja poduzeća čija struktura s aspekta distri...

Increased global competitiveness, reduced product life cycles, rapid technological advancements, and dynamic customer requirements have drastically altered the nature of competition. Henderson (1989) argues that two firms cannot coexist if they make their livings in identical ways and that’s the reason why firm distinguish from its rivals. Resear...

The process of strategic management is the core of the strategic management literature. The classical contributions of the founders of strategic management suggested that the process should be directed as deliberate and controlled as possible and every step should be rational based on data and facts. The opposing approach in strategy is emergent ap...