DISCLOSURE OF CORPORATE STRATEGY: DETERMINANTS AND OUTCOMES An empirical study into the risks and payoffs of communicating corporate strategy Henricus Petrus Theodorus COEBERGH Submitted for the degree of Doctor of Business Administration School of Management University of Bradford 2011 1 Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1965029 ABSTRACT VOLUNTARY DISCLOSURE OF CORPORATE STRATEGY: DETERMINANTS AND OUTCOMES Keywords: Voluntary disclosure‚ corporate strategy. Business
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excitement‚ and exhaustion. It was July 2003 and we were on a family vacation to Walt Disney World. The plane had departed from Philadelphia International Airport at 8 a.m. My parents slept soundly and my younger brother and sister were so excited because like me‚ it was their first trip to Disney World as well‚ that they couldn’t even sit still on the plane. Soon‚ we would all be experiencing the thrill of the Magic Kingdom. My siblings could barely contain their enthusiasm as we drove in our rented
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BOOK SUMMARY Inside the Magic Kingdom Seven Keys to Disney’s Success By: Tom Connellan This book is centered around a “gang of five” who spend a week at Disney World park to learn how Disney offers great customer service to millions of park visitors. Led by a tour guide‚ they set out on a walking tour of Walt Disney World with the opportunity to improve their customer focus. CHARACTERS • Bill Greenfield- a 58 year old commercial loan officer at a bank in the Northwest • Carmen Rivera- vice president
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The Logic of “Walt’s Way” This paper will analyze of the secret to the success of Walt Disney and The Walt Disney Company. This paper will use Bill Capodagli and Lynn Jackson’s book‚ The Disney Way: Harnessing the Management Secrets of Disney in Your Company. This paper gives particular interest to chapter 1‚ “Walt’s Way”‚ which summary the essence of Disney’s success. The chapter will be analyzed in seven areas. First‚ the main purpose of this chapter will be discussed. Second‚ the key question
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is the Disney Difference and how will it affect the company’s corporate‚ competitive and functional strategies? The Disney differences are “high-quality creative content‚ backed up by a clear strategy for maximizing that content`s value across platforms and markets”. Not only that‚ it also it is the undisputed long-lasting champion of all vacation destinations in general‚ and theme parks in particular. That reason is that they do it all right‚ and no one else comes close. For sure‚ Disney Difference will
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MBA 500 (Corporate Strategy) Professor Mark Shanley UIC – Liautaud Graduate School of Management Summer 2011 Final Examination Instructions: This exam covers the Morepen Laboratories Ltd. (MLL) Case that was distributed through Blackboard last week. Please answer all four questions (and all the parts of each question). The exam will be graded comprehensively on a 100 hundred point scale (with points for each question listed in parentheses). Please support your answers where appropriate
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Learning from the Disneyland Paris Experience. A Case study in International/Intercultural Communication This is the most wonderful project we have ever done. Michael Eisner‚ CEO‚ Walt Disney Company A horror made of cardboard‚ plastic‚ and appalling colors; a construction of hardened chewing gum and idiotic folklore taken straight out of comic books written for obese Americans. Jean Cau‚ French Critic American businesses make assumption about the transferability of culturally loaded business
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Disney Company: A Corporate Strategy Analysis November 2012 Written by Carlos Carillo‚ Jeremy Crumley‚ Kendree Thieringer and Jeffrey S. Harrison at the Robins School of Business‚ University of Richmond. Copyright © Jeffrey S. Harrison. This case
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Walt Disney: 1 A more creative organizational chart compared to other http://www.atissuejournal.com/2009/08/07/walt-disney%E2%80%99s-creative-organization-chart/ They use change management and innovative techniques to be the top corporation they are today.After all Disneyland was originally created as a place for his employees and their children to come and relax. 2 Behavioural concepts: Training of walt disney http://voices.yahoo.com/the-magic-disneys-organizational-behavior-concepts-550698
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Preface 1 The corporate firm in a spatial context PIET PELLENBARG AND EGBERT WEVER ix xiii xv 1 2 Networks of firms in Flanders‚ Belgium: characteristics and territorial impacts DOMINIQUE VANNESTE AND PETER CABUS 23 61 3 Global production and trade systems: the Volvo case INGE IVARSSON AND CLAES G. ALVSTAM 4 The organization of the production process: the case of Smartville H. PETER DÖRRENBÄCHER AND CHRISTIAN SCHULZ 83 5 Internal venturing: sponsored corporate spin-offs in Sweden
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