Executive Summary The McLaren Group was founded in 1963 and entered Formula One racing in 1966 achieving its first victory at the Belgium Grand prix in 1968. Today, after 181 Grand Prix victories, the group owns one of the world’s leading Formula One teams and has also expanded to include six separate companies in a variety of markets namely: McLaren Racing; McLaren Automotive; McLaren Electronics […]

1. INTRODUCTION Corporate strategic decisions are usually based on the methods through which an organization could leverage its existing competitive advantage in promoting value and ensuring growth (Lynch, 2009), while sustainable competitive advantage depends largely on how well a company performs these actions (Porter, 2008). The need for companies to grow and expand has been known to drive product and marketing innovation, which in turn […]

Axiata is known as one of the main Asian telecommunication corporations with controlling the interests in mobile operators. This organization is providing telecom service in 8 Asian countries involves: Malaysia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh Cambodia India, Singapore Iran Axiata is including group of mobile subsidiaries and sub-operate with divers’ brand name in different countries which has been listed as below: Celcom in Malaysia, XL in […]

The SPACE matrix is a management tool used to analyze a company. It is used to determine what type of a strategy a company should undertake. The Strategic Position & ACtion Evaluation matrix or short a SPACE matrix is a strategic management tool that focuses on strategy formulation especially as related to the competitive position of an organization. The SPACE matrix can be used as […]

The key to succeeding in business is the application of the relevant strategic management schemes that there can ever be, based on the factual information or the real situation of where the business is and how its current state is. Strategies in business differ on the basis on factors like competition and industry (Kotler, 2008). Then, as Drucker would put it, doing something without first […]

Block 1 Organizational development requires the use of information available to develop knowledge which can be used to enhance success and attainment of organizational objectives. Waggoner stresses the primacy of information in knowledge development in his assertion that, “One can have information without knowledge, but it is impossible to have knowledge without information.” The search and use of information can be enhanced using the building […]

The copyright of the Master thesis rests with the author. The author is responsible for its contents. RSI Erasmus University is only responsible for the educational coaching and beyond that cannot be held responsible for the content. Acknowledgements I would like to thank Raymond van Wick, Bert Flier, and Justine Jansen for their inspirational lectures and papers forming the basis for my thesis and new […]

In the beginning of capitalism, entrepreneurs believed that independency is the way to do business. Many believed that this is influenced by our national culture which strongly emphasis the importance of independency. The strong influence of the independency and individualism culture leads business organizations of the past to have strong interdependencies toward each other. However, as nations learned that international economic cooperation will bring mutual […]

This paper will discuss the practices of strategic management in Unilever UK. Strategic management is a form of management in which strategies and plans are devised for the company to move it forward. The strategies are designed in order to deal with the challenges of the new environment. Plans are usually made to counter any unavoidable circumstances that may occur due to many reasons. Unilever […]

Syllabus Course Number: Course (in English): Management Accounting Credit hour:3 Pre-course: Instructing language: Chinese Courseware: English Semester: Fall Course kind: Required course Objects: Master The Course Objectives After the study of this course, students should gain full knowledge of the key conceptual framework and generally used methods of management accounting as an important decision-making tool for the management of businesses and organizations of other types. […]