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| a business strategy that seeks to maintain a stable business while innovating on the periphery |
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| a perspective on organizational effectiveness that combines diverse indicators of performance that represent competing management values |
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| a business strategy that seeks stability or even retrenchment rather than innovation or growth |
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| strategy organizations use to distinguish their products or services from others in the industry/sector |
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| a strategy in which an organization concentrates on a specific regional market or buyer group |
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| an approach to organizational effectiveness that is concerned with output and whether the organization achieves its output goals |
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| emphasis on an aspect of the competing-values model that incorporates the values of an internal focus and a flexible structure |
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| internal-process approach |
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| an approach that looks at internal activities and assesses effectiveness by indicators of internal health and efficiency |
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| internal-process emphasis |
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| an aspect of the competing-values model that reflects the values of internal focus and structural control |
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| low-cost leadership strategy |
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| a strategy that tries to increase market share by emphasizing low cost when compared with competitors' products |
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| the organization's reason for its existence |
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| the formally stated definition of business scope and outcomes the organization is trying to achieve; another term for mission |
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| an aspect of the competing-values model that reflects a combination of external focus and flexible structure |
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| descriptions of the ends sought through the actual operating procedures of the organization; these explain what the organization is trying to accomplish |
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| a desired state of affairs that the organization attempts to reach |
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| a business strategy characterized by innovation, risk-taking, seeking out new opportunities, and growth |
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| an aspect of the competing-values model that reflects values of structural control and external focus |
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| a business strategy in which environmental threats and opportunities are responded to in an ad hoc fashion |
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| an organizational perspective that assesses effectiveness by observing how successfully the organization obtains, integrates, and manages valued resources |
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| the current set of plans, decisions and objectives that have been adopted to achieve the organization's goals |
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| the formal reporting relationships, groupings, and systems of an organization |
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