IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ids/ijesbu/v7y2009i1p139-150.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The strategic management competence of small and medium-sized growth firms

Author

Listed:
  • Marko Kohtamaki
  • Erno Tornikoski
  • Elina Varamaki

Abstract

This study focuses on the firm's strategy process and especially on the firm's strategic management competence. Strategic management competence is defined as a firm's ability to involve different actors in the strategy process, characterised by the formalisation and use of different strategic tools. This study focuses on the small and medium-sized growth firms. With respect to the main findings, we believe that several important conclusions can be drawn. First, the results seem to suggest that while managerial experience is not important for strategic management competence, the CEO's relationship with a firm does. Second, the results also seem to suggest that a CEO's educational level is important for strategic management competence. Third, the results seem to suggest that the entrepreneurial orientation of a firm is important for strategic management competence.

Suggested Citation

  • Marko Kohtamaki & Erno Tornikoski & Elina Varamaki, 2009. "The strategic management competence of small and medium-sized growth firms," International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 7(1), pages 139-150.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijesbu:v:7:y:2009:i:1:p:139-150
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=21614
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ids:ijesbu:v:7:y:2009:i:1:p:139-150. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sarah Parker (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=74 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.