"If you choose unconciously, you evolve unconsciously. If you choose consciously, you evolve consciously" (Gary Zukav)

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Course: RESEARCH ON STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT

(5 credits)

 

ANALYTICAL PROGRAM

GENERAL AIMS

To introduce PhD students to the theoretical and methodological contents of the Strategic Management discipline. To show its evolution, current situation and future perspectives, as well as the potentialities of this discipline for researchers and its managerial implications, especially in the tourism industry.

METHODOLOGY

Theory and practice, with cases and practical applications based on the discipline theoretical foundations. The students will be encouraged to participate and so enrich the contents of the course with their personal experiences, transferring the concepts learned to their own professional realities and research needs. The methodological itinerary in the development of the sessions will be synthesis-analysis-synthesis.

CONTENTS

GENERIC (3.5 credits)

I.-The Management as a discipline: the managerial systems.

Presentation

VARGAS SÁNCHEZ, A. La dirección de empresas o la lucha permanente por el equilibrio: ¿no es esto la vida misma? Boletín AECA, nº 52, Abril-Julio 2000, pp.46-49.

ACEDO GONZÁLEZ, F.J.; BARROSO CASTRO, C.; CASILLAS BUENO, J.C.; GALÁN GONZÁLEZ, J.L. Dominant approaches in the field of management. The International Journal of Organizational Analysis. 2001, Vol. 9, 4, pp.327-353.

II.-The Strategic Management: theoretical and scientific foundations.

Presentation

VARGAS SÁNCHEZ, A. Dirección Estratégica. Fundamentos teóricos y científicos. Huelva: Universidad de Huelva, 2004.

II.1.-The strategy formation process: schools and methodological perspectives.

Presentation

MINTZBERG, H.; LAMPEL, J. Reflecting on the strategy process. Sloan Management Review; Cambridge; Spring 1999.

Aplication

II.2.-The strategic process: from a sequential model to a dynamic model.

Presentation

AECA. Principios de Organización y Sistemas. Documento nº 9. Estrategia Empresarial. Modelo Dinámico del Proceso Estratégico. Enero 1999.

Does strategy really matter anymore? (Presentation)

III.-Theory and research in Strategic Management.

Presentation

HOSKISSON, R.E.; HITT, M.A.; WAN, W.P. & YIU, D. Theory and research in strategic management: Swings of a pendulum. Journal of Management, 1999, Vol. 25, 3, pp. 417-456.

PÉREZ, R.A. Estrategar. El fenómeno perdido de la teoría estratégica. Paper presented at the 3rd Encuentro Iberoamericano sobre Estrategias de Comunicación. México, D.F., 21-23 September 2005. In: FISEC-Estrategias, Nº 2, 2005.

VARGAS SÁNCHEZ, A. ¿Puede generarse desde el management una teoría estratégica capaz de responder a los retos del siglo XXI? Paper presented at the 3er Encuentro Iberoamericano sobre Estrategias de Comunicación. México, D.F., 21-23 September 2005. In: FISEC-Estrategias, Nº 2, 2005.

VARGAS SÁNCHEZ, A. Systemics, Connectivity and Innovation: what role do we want them to play in a new perspective of strategy? Paper presented at the XXIII Annual Sinergie Conference, IULM University of Milan, November 11, 2011.

IV.-The resource-based theory.

Presentation

ACEDO, F.J.; BARROSO, C.; GALÁN, J.L. The resource-based theory: dissemination and main trends. Strategic Management Journal, vol. 27, 2006, pp. 621-636.

FERNÁNDEZ, Z. El propósito de la estrategia (una reflexión basada en los recursos). Boletín AECA, nº 54, enero-abril 2001, pp.12-16.

Working material

Aplication:

VARGAS, A.; HERNÁNDEZ, M.J.; BRUQUE, S. Understanding Information Technology Adoption in Organizations. Twentieth International Conference of WACRA. Bordeaux (France), June 29-July 2 2003. In:  Interactive Innovative Teaching & Training. Case Method & Other Techniques. Hans E. Klein (Ed.), Massachusetts, USA, 2003, pp. 287-300.

IV.1.-The knowledge-based view of the firm.

EISENHARDT, K.M.; SANTOS, F.M. Knowledge-Based View: A New Theory of Strategy? In: Pettigrew, A.; Thomas, H.; Whittington, R. (Eds.). Handbook of Strategy and Management. Sage Publications, 2001, pp. 139-164.  

VARGAS SÁNCHEZ, A. La Dirección Estratégica de la empresa y la visión basada en el conocimiento: nuevos desafíos para la investigación. In: VI Coloquios Andaluces sobre Temas Empresariales. Almería: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Almería, 2002, pp.187-216.

V.-Agency Theory versus Stewardship Theory.

Presentation

Davis, J.H.; Schoorman, F.D. & Donaldson, L. Toward a stewardship theory of management. Academy of Management Review, 1997, 22, 1, pp.20-47.

Aplication:

VARGAS SÁNCHEZ, A. La teoría de la agencia versus la teoría del servidor: una aplicación a las sociedades cooperativas agrarias de la provincia de Huelva. X International Conference of AEDEM. Reggio Calabria (Italia), 4-6 September 2001. In: Best Papers Proceedings, pp.1067-1076.

VARGAS SÁNCHEZ, A. Development of Corporate Governance Systems: Agency Theory versus Stewardship Theory in Welsh Agrarian Cooperative Societies. Paper presented at the 4th Annual Conference of  EURAM (European Academy of Management). St. Andrews (Scotland), 5-8 May 2004.

VI.-Identification of strategic groups through multivariable statistical techniques (Workshop).

VARGAS SÁNCHEZ, A.; PELAYO DÍAZ, Y; LEVY MANGIN, J.P. Commercial Strategies in the Olive Oil Bottling Sector in Spain: a Strategic Group Analysis. Journal of International Food and Agribusiness Marketing, Vol. 17, nº 2, 2005, pp. 107-133.

VARGAS SÁNCHEZ, A. Comportamiento y eficiencia de las Cajas Rurales españolas. IX Jornadas Hispano-Lusas de Gestión Científica, 1999. In: El management en el próximo milenio. Sevilla: Minerva Universidad, 1999, pp.149-160.

File for practices

BIBLIOGRAPHY

In addition to the references indicated for each session, the following are also recommended:

• CAMPBELL, A.; LUCHS, K.S. Core Competency-Based Strategy. International Thomson Business Press, 1997.

• CHAN KIM, W.; MAUBORGUE, R. Blue Ocean Strategy. Harvard Business School Press, 2005.

• HART, S.L. A natural-resource-based view of the firm. Academy of Management Review, 1995, Vol. 20, 4, pp. 986-1014.

• MINTZBERG, H.; AHLSTRAND, B.; LAMPEL, J. Strategy Safari. A guided tour through the wilds of Strategic Management. Prentice Hall, 1998.

• PRAHALAD, C.K.; HART, S.L. The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid. Strategy+Business, issue 26, 2002.

LINKS:

http://www.experiment-resources.com/

http://www.gurusonline.tv/

http://www.universia.es/ubr/direccionestrategia.htm

http://www.universia.es/ubr/gobiernoempresa.htm

http://www.dmsp.dauphine.fr/Management/default.html

http://www.inghenia.com/gadgets/swot/swot.php

http://www.redefiningstrategy.com/

http://www.managementexchange.com/

http://mgmt.talkingvillage.com/

How to Get Published:

-Preparing your Manuscript, http://mediazone.brighttalk.com/comm/ReedElsevier/643174e08d-28219-2251-31480

-Structuring an Article, http://mediazone.brighttalk.com/comm/ReedElsevier/509ba7e7a9-28221-2251-31500

SPECIFIC (1.5 credits)

Strategic Management of Human Resources, to be taught by Dr. Mª Jesús Moreno-Domínguez (domin@uhu.es)

EVALUATION

The criteria will be the following:

• Attendance and constructive participation during the sessions. 80 percent of attendance will be demanded as a minimum requirement.

• An individual paper and its presentation.

• If the student performance wasn’t good enough according to the previous criteria, a final examination will be scheduled.

 

RESEARCH LINE: Strategic Management of Tourist Firms (12 credits)

 

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                 Dr. D. Alfonso Vargas Sánchez