Comprehensive Analysis: Business Strategy (Management) Article Review

This report presents a comprehensive review of five articles focused on business strategy and management. The articles explore various aspects, including the evolution of strategic management, the impact of organizational culture on strategy, international human resource management strategies of Chinese multinationals, the influence of culture on governance, and strategies for managing family businesses in small communities. Each article's purpose, theoretical framework, methodology, data analysis, findings, and contribution to business strategy theories are examined. The report highlights the strategic management framework, SIHRM framework, and frameworks used for analyzing family businesses. Methodologies include secondary data analysis, questionnaires, and case studies, with cross-cultural aspects discussed where relevant. Findings include the importance of strategic management for competitive advantage, the role of culture in influencing behavior, and strategies for success in family businesses. The report emphasizes the practical and theoretical implications of each article, contributing to a deeper understanding of business strategy.

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Title of the Article
Article 1: New perspectives on the strategic management process
Article 2: Organizational culture and strategy. how does it work? an empirical research
Article 3: International human resource management strategies of Chinese multinationals
operating abroad
Article 4: Culture drove governance: Why influencing behavior is an essential governance
strategy
Article 5: Managing Family Businesses in Small Communities
Date of Publication/Volume and Issue
Article 1: 2013
Article 2: 2001
Article 3:1st July 2013
Article 4: June 2017
Author/s Names
Article 1: Pop Zenovia Cristiana, Borza Anca
Article2: Vele Cristian-Liviu
Article 3: Di Fana, Mike Mingqiong Zhangb and Cherrie Jiuhua Zhu
Article 4: Karen Gately, Ryan Gately

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Article 4: Nancy J. Miller, Harriet McLeod and Keun Young Oh
Purpose: Objective of the Author
Article 1: In the above mentioned article, the evolution stages of the strategic management
process have been underlined by the authors. With the help of the research paper, both Romanian
and foreign managers will be able to understand the position of their organization in the global
market and therefore will be able to incorporate strategies in order to enhance the competitive
advantages and sustainability of the organization.
Article 2: In this article, the importance of a dynamic organizational structure for sustaining new
strategic initiative o the organization has been analyzed and evaluated.
Article 3: The purpose of the article involves cross-level and in-depth analysis of two Strategic
International Human Resource Management (SIHRM) that include the characteristics of SHIRM
in Chinese Multinationals and how their SHIRM orientation facilitates their operation and
international investment has been performed (Fan, Zhang and Zhu 2013).
Article 4: In this article, the degree to which the culture and behavior of the employees are
influenced by the organizations has been analyzed.
Article 5: In this research paper, the aim of the author is to analyze the strategies implemented in
small businesses. Along with that, this research paper also contains issues related to small
business management.
Theory: Does the article use any theoretical framework related to Business Strategy? If yes,
explain the framework briefly. What are the strengths and weakness of the framework?

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Article 1: The framework used in the above mentioned article is strategic management
framework. A strategic management framework can be defined as a framework that helps the
managers of an organization to understand the key constructs, themes and concepts associated
with the organization (Cristiana and Anca 2013). The mentioned framework chiefly reflects
principles, structures and axioms of the organization. The chief elements of a strategic
management framework include 1. The business construct and the objective strategy, 2. The
capability of the employees and 3. The activities involved in strategy formation as well as
execution.
Strengths:
1. Strategic management forces discipline in an organization
2. It helps the managers, executive detectors as well as the employees to make a day-to-day
operational decision by focusing on the objective of the organization
3. This framework allows the staffs along with the board members to participate in the
discussion and helps the employees to understand the direction chosen by the
organization.
Weaknesses
1. The risk that the future does not turn out as was anticipated is all ways there.
2. The framework focuses on long term benefits of the organization without giving priority
to the immediate results.
Article 2: No specific framework has been used in this article.

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Article 3: The framework used in the article includes SIHRM framework. The mentioned
framework embraces a number of industrial settings, country contexts as well as external and
internal influencing factors. The strength of the mentioned framework includes the formation of
a top-tier workforce in the Chinese organizations. Executive leadership that support and promote
HR strategic development can be considered as another crucial strength of the SIHRM Strategy.
Being a non-revenue producing department, one of the chief weaknesses of SIHRM includes
budget constraints and frequent cuts.
Article 4: No particular framework has been used in the article.
Article 5: In this article, a framework has been implemented by the researchers to examine the
strategies employed by the owners of family businesses. The framework proposed that family
business gets affected due to numerous characteristics of the family and the manager of the
business. The framework is consists of 4 major factors namely planning, organizing, leading and
controlling. While the strength o the frame work include effective identification of the strategies
implemented in family businesses, the weakness of the framework is its limited understanding of
specific management activities, problems, and sources of assistance for these businesses.
Methodology: What methodology has the authors used to collect data? Is the article cross
cultural? If yes please explain why you think it is cross cultural.
Article 1: In order to collect data, secondary sources of information are collected.
Considering the fact that the research method involves only Romanian Constructional
organizations, this article is not cross cultural.

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Article 2: In order to collect data, 23 questionnaires have been used. Data is collected from 8
organizations from the constructional industry.
The provided article is not cross cultural.
Article 3: The methodology used in the article includes the method of multiple case studies.
Qualitative research process has been used in this article. The research questioned focused on the
what, why and how factors which affect SIHRM strategies in Chinese Multinational organization
that operates overseas.
The article is definitely cross cultural. The research has been conducted on Chinese
multinational; companies that operate overseas. Therefore, it can be clearly understood that that
employees in such organization come from different cultural backgrounds.
Article 4: In this article analysis of secondary data has been performed. The article is associated
with cross cultural concepts. The article deals with various types of leadership and how they
influence the cultural behavior of employees in an organization.
Article 5: considering the fact that the purpose of the study is to investigate the difference in
management strategies between small communities in US, the research has not been conducted
from any cross cultural perspective. In order to conduct the research, small businesses located in
the US communities have been analyzed. A household based survey has been organized to
determine if whether anyone in the home owned a business.
Data Analysis: How was the data analyzed? In other words what statistical tools were
used?

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Article 1: From the data collected, the evolutionary process has been divided into four phases.
The first phase includes financial planning based on the budget of the enterprise achieved
annually. The second phase includes strategies at the enterprise level. In the 3rd phase, search for
the competitive advantage of the company has been performed. And finally, in the last phase,
strategies in the new millennium have been developed.
Article 2: The data collected from the 23 questionnaires are statistically analyzed. The values of
the normality test show that the data obtained are well modelled and have a normal distribution.
Article 3: In order to minimize the influence of various kinds of institutional environments on the
SIHRM of the Organization, Chinese organizations three Chinese Multinational organizations
that operate in Australia and have a similar type of ownership has been examined.
Article 4: After collecting the data from the secondary sources, the evolution of the findings of
the secondary sources has been performed.
Article 5: For collecting data, approximately 14000 households were screened by telephone
interviews. Out of 14000, 1116 samples were selected for the second round of interview. Out of
the mentioned samples, 794 samples actually participated in the second round of interview.
Article 4: Findings and conclusion what were the findings and conclusion draw from the
article?
Article 1: The advantages of strategic management include the development of clear vision as
well as the mission of the organizations. Effective strategic management has the capability to
reduce conflict in an organization. On the other hand, developing a strategic management
framework is an expensive process. Hence the research has concluded that a consensus within

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the strategic management hardly can be reached since it includes fields like economics,
psychology as well as sociology.
Article 2: It has been concluded that since the competition between organizations has enhanced
in today's world, it is highly imported for them to enhance their competitive advantage in the
chosen market (Cristian-Liviu 2013). For this managers need to adopt high transparency level
and create a dynamic organizational culture.
Article 3: From the research paper it has been concluded that Chinese Multinational Companies
provide an ideal opportunity to understand the pattern of the behavior of multination
organizations operating business overseas. It has been found that SIHRM approaches, like
forming learning organizations, reconciling both home and host-country effects, reliance on host-
country nationals and promoting ‘best practices’, facilitate their international operations.
Article 4: It has been concluded that majority of times, leaders are found to be underestimating
the power and insights of the team members (Gately and Gately 2017). Hence it Is highly crucial
for the leader to spend a good amount of time with the team members and share their perception
of changes.
Article 5: After conducting the research it ha been found that managers of small businesses in Us
who practices strategies that are developed after excessive planning and controlling are able to
gain success in their businesses (Miller, McLeodand Young 2001). Findings also suggest that
small family businesses operating in small communities may need assistance in understanding
how to collect information about consumer satisfaction and in realizing the potential for strong
return on investments offered by surveying consumers in the surrounding area.
How did the article contribute to the theories and concepts of Business Strategy?

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Article 1: The mentioned article has provided several ways of thinking over the strategy as well
as implicitly over strategic management.
Article 2: This article contains several ways enhancing the performance of the employees by
implementing strategies to manage organizational culture.
Article 3: The research paper has several practical as well as theoretical implications for
international business.
Article 4: This article has a thorough discussion on the type of leadership and how leaders should
behave with their team members to enhance the overall revenue of the organization has been
performed.
Article 5: this article has greatly contributed to the business theories and concept by discovering
how successful family businesses operate in small communities is especially important, given the
role they play in strengthening the economies of rural communities.

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Reference List
Cristiana, P.Z. and Anca, B., 2013. New perspectives on strategic management process. THE
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Cristian-Liviu, V., 2013. Organizational culture and strategy: How does it work? An empirical
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Fan, D., Zhang, M.M. and Zhu, C.J., 2013. International human resource management strategies
of Chinese multinationals operating abroad. Asia Pacific Business Review, 19(4), pp.526-541.
Gately, K.,Gately, R., 2017. Culture driven governance: Why influencing behaviour is an
essential governance strategy. Governance in Practice, pp. 271-274
Miller, N.J., McLeod, H. and Young Ob, K., 2001. Managing family businesses in small
communities. Journal of Small Business Management, 39(1), pp.73-87.