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Stonehouse, George and Pemberton, Jon (2002) Strategic planning in SME's - some empirical findings. Management Decision, 40 (9). pp. 853-861. ISSN 0025-1747
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Strategic frameworks and tools of analysis have been the subject of much academic debate over the last 20 years. This paper reviews the main approaches to strategic management and, by presenting the results of a survey of 159 small and medium sized enterprises selected from both the service and manufacturing sectors, demonstrates a divide between the theoretical concepts and the practical realities of strategic planning. While there are strong indications of business planning among the organisations surveyed, there is less evidence of strategic thinking except among larger businesses. Even in this latter group there are only a few instances where the recognised tools of strategic management appear to play a role in planning, the exception being internal financial analysis, which is widely undertaken
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Print ISSN: | 0025-1747 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Planning; Small- to medium-sized enterprises; |
| University Divisions/Research Centres: | The Business School > School of Management |
| Dewey Decimal Subjects: | 600 Technology > 650 Management & public relations > 658 General management |
| Library of Congress Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management |
| Item ID: | 4988 |
| Depositing User: | Mrs Lyn Gibson |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Feb 2012 16:53 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Mar 2013 09:48 |
| URI: | http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/4988 |
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