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Université de Fribourg

Research on the Strategy of Multinational Enterprises : Key Approaches and New Avenues

Dabic, Marina ; González-Loureiro, Miguel ; Furrer, Olivier

In: Business Research Quarterly (BRQ), 2014, vol. 17, p. 129-148

Over decades, research on multinational enterprises’ (MNEs) strategies has been anchored in internalization theory. Strongly grounded in transaction cost economics to explain foreign market entry, it hardly explains how MNEs can build and sustain a competitive advantage. Thus, this paper aims at understanding how the nature of strategic thinking has influenced the research in the field of...

Université de Fribourg

Make a drawing. Effects of strategic knowledge, drawing accuracy, and type of drawing on students’ mathematical modelling performance

Rellensmann, Johanna ; Schukajlow, Stanislaw ; Leopold, Claudia

In: Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2016, vol. 95, no. 1, p. 53-78

Drawing strategies are widely used as a powerful tool for promoting students’ learning and problem solving. In this article, we report the results of an inferential mediation analysis that was applied to investigate the roles that strategic knowledge about drawing and the accuracy of different types of drawings play in mathematical modelling performance. Sixty-one students were asked to...

Università della Svizzera italiana

Strategy as evolutionary path : Five higher education institutions on the move

Fumasoli, Tatiana ; Poglia, Edo (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2011.

Strategy in universities has been a controversial issue in scholarly debate. On one side higher education institutions have been considered specific organizations whose essential nature hinders strategy and the coordination and control functions thereby entailed. On the other side, new public management reforms requiring strategic capability to be developed have been the object of critical...

Università della Svizzera italiana

Visual strategizing : the systematic use of visualization in the strategy process

Eppler, Martin J. ; Platts, Ken ; Kazancioglu, Emre

In this article, we examine the use of visual representations for the business strategy process (from strategic analysis and strategy development to strategic planning and implementation). Starting with a review of literature, we show that visualization can address many of the cognitive, social, and emotional challenges of the strategy process, if visualization is understood as a participatory...