TY  - BOOK
AU  - 
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Strategy Deployment in Business Units: Patterns of Operations Strategy Cascading Across Global Sites in a Manufacturing Firm 
T2  - Contributions to Management Science,
SN  - 9783642336218
AV  - HD28-70 
U1  - 658.4092 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Berlin, Heidelberg
PB  - Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Imprint: Physica
KW  - Economics
KW  - Business planning
KW  - Economics/Management Science
KW  - Business Strategy/Leadership
KW  - Organization/Planning
KW  - Production/Logistics/Supply Chain Management
N1  - Introduction -- Review of the Literature on Strategy Cascading, Context, and Leadership -- Research Design and Data Collection -- The Relevance of Organizational Context to Strategy Cascading -- The Effect of Leadership on Strategy Cascading -- Assessment of Strategy Cascading Quality and Improvement Performance -- Results on Strategy Cascading, Context, and Leadership Style -- Theoretical and Managerial Implications -- Appendix: Interview Guide; ZDB-2-SBE
N2  - This book reveals and presents the root-causes that lead to varying improvement performances across different locations of a global positioned manufacturing organization. Conducting a multiple case study analysis of manufacturing sites around the world, the author found that the quality of the strategy deployment process is vital, especially when it is clear to all affected employeesa situation we refer to as strategy cascading. But having a sound strategy cascading alone is not enough. The authorworked outthat a company, which achieves to align its sound strategy cascading with the company context and leadership style of its top-management team, is likely to realize more operations improvements than do companies that missed to do so
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33621-8
ER  -