ترجمه مقاله نقش ضروری ارتباطات 6G با چشم انداز صنعت 4.0
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ترجمه مقاله پایداری توسعه شهری، تعدیل ساختار صنعتی و کارایی کاربری زمین
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Strategic management is a relatively youthful discipline that has steadily matured over the past fifty years. The field has become consolidated over this period, while simultaneously expanding the range of topics analyzed and research methodologies used. Different theories and approaches, addressing different research topics, have been developed to explain the reasons underlying firms’ competitive advantage and success. In this paper, we posit the existence of two pendulums in constant motion that, on the one hand, reflect the tension that has historically existed between the focus on internal firm factors and external environmental attributes respectively and, on the other hand, the tension between a more macro level of analysis, i.e., the firm and its environment, and a more micro level one, i.e., individuals and their relations within the firm. The frontier of research in strategic management is shaped by the simultaneous movement of both pendulums.
Introduction: trends in strategic management research
Strategic management is a youthful discipline. Its origins date back to the 1960s, with its roots to be found mainly in the seminal publications by Chandler (1962), Ansoff (1965) and Andrews (1971). Since then, it has evolved significantly, becoming an ever more mature and consolidated field within the realm of management. The discipline’s progress toward maturity has been accompanied by several factors. First, there has been a marked increase in the range of topics addressed (Hoskisson et al., 1999). The study of ‘‘best practices’’ in the 1960s has given way to an analysis of such varied topics as internationalization, cooperation between firms, strategies and competition in the markets for products and factors, strategic leadership, and the relationship between a firm’s strategy and its corporate social responsibility, to mention just a few.
Conclusion and final reflections
Strategic management is a relatively young discipline that has been evolving on the back of numerous contributions from different fields in social sciences. Developments over the past few decades testify to the discipline’s evolution and maturity, as it now enjoys a great capacity for analysis, as well as a greater array of theories, topics analyzed, and methodologies to do so. The metaphor of the pendulum that has been used to observe how the focus of attention has swung from the internal to the external domains and then back again to the internal one may be extended in two ways to better capture the discipline’s evolution. First, besides the internal---external pendulum, a second pendulum is operational that swings between a macro and micro level approach toward key issues in strategic management. Second, these two pendulums are not currently at either end of the swing but are instead moving constantly and simultaneously.