Strategic Focus in Turkish SMEs: Emergent or Deliberate Strategies?

Traditional deliberate strategies, based on cycles of stability and predictability, are no longer relevant for today's business environments. Emergent strategies have been advocated as the solution. In this research we investigate and propose how interweaving of the deliberate and emergent coul...

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Published in:Procedia, social and behavioral sciences social and behavioral sciences, 2013-11, Vol.99, p.929-937
Main Authors: Bozkurt, Özlem Çetinkaya, Kalkan, Adnan
Format: Article
Language:English
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Deliberate strategy
Emergent strategy
Organizational structures
Small and medium-sized enterprises
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Summary:Traditional deliberate strategies, based on cycles of stability and predictability, are no longer relevant for today's business environments. Emergent strategies have been advocated as the solution. In this research we investigate and propose how interweaving of the deliberate and emergent could be conceived and realized in terms of strategy, organizational structures, firm size and firm age. The aim of this study is to examine the existing strategies of SMEs in Turkish to know if they adopt more of unconscious actions or deliberately planned patterned behavior (PPB) which guides their actions.
ISSN:1877-0428
1877-0428
DOI:10.1016/j.sbspro.2013.10.566