Strategic Management Annotated Bibliography

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(1) Fuertes, G., Alfaro, M., Vargas, M., Gutierrez, S., Ternero, R., & Sabattin, J. (2020). A conceptual framework for the strategic management: a literature review—descriptive. Journal of Engineering, 2020, 1-21.
The article reviews the literature on the key concepts that lead to determining the strategic approach, organizational structures, strategy formation, creation of strategies, and strategic evaluation for corporate management.
The findings of this study are that there needs to be more scientific literature containing important theoretical concepts. This lacuna handicaps strategy formulators from having a ready guide to creating, formulating, and evaluating strategies. The review claims that it examines the impact of strategic management on organizational performance.
The key researcher is Guillermo Fuertes, from the University of Santiago, Chile. He is the principal researcher of the study. He belongs to the Department of Industrial Engineering and has a Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences, with a mention in Industrial Engineering.
The source is relevant because it is a literature review on strategic management. The source is helpful because it provides two hundred and fifteen references that are related to strategic management. The overall assessment of the article is that it is directly related to the research paper. (2) Bogers, M., Chesbrough, H., Heaton, S., & Teece,

D. J. (2019). Strategic management of open innovation: A dynamic capabilities perspective. California Management Review, 62(1), 77-94.
According to this study open innovation is increasingly being used in the new environment and the study uses strategic management to describe some of the benefits of open innovation. Some of the benefits are that open innovation provides access to talent, right infrastructure, and facilitiates co-creating. It also gives the firm competitive advantage.
The study develops dynamic capabilities framework to better comprehend strategic management of open innovation which can better explain success in open innovation. This article shows how strategic management theory can help explain a new trend in management of innovation.
The main author is Marcel Bogers. He is a professor of Open & Collaborative Innovation at the Eindhoven University of Technology. He is also a faculty at the Department of Food and Resource Economics at the Faculty of Science of the University of Copenhagen. He is also a research fellow at the University of California Berkely.
The information is relevant to my study to the extent that it shows how Strategic Management theory can be applied to a new approach in business. The source fits into my research because it shows how strategic management concepts can be applied to open innovation. I will use this source for showing how strategic management concepts can be used in contemporary business. The overall assessment of this article is that it is moderately relevant. It demonstrates how strategic management ideas and thoughts can be applied to the area of innovation.

(3) Ketchen Jr, D. J., & Craighead, C. W. (2020). Research at the intersection of entrepreneurship, supply chain management, and strategic management: Opportunities highlighted by COVID-19. Journal of Management, 46(8), 1330-1341.
This article shows how supply chain concepts such as supply chain resiliency, omni-channel, and last mile delivery can support entrepreneurship research. At the same time the article shows how entrepreneurship concepts such as fear of failure, opportunity, and optimal distinctiveness can be extended to supply chain context.
The article uses strategic management concepts to explain the extension of concepts both to supply chain and to entrepreneurship. The main author David J. Ketchen, Jr is a Harbert Eminent Scholar and Professor of Management at Auburn University. He is a PhD, Penn State University, 1994
The article will be used to show how strategic management concepts can be used in supply chain management and entrepreneurship. The source is helpful because even through it has been written in the context of COVID 19, it clearly applies the concepts of strategic management. It is not too narrow and the overall assessment of the article is that it is helpful..

(4) Lak, A., Gheitasi, M., & Timothy, D. J. (2020). Urban regeneration through heritage tourism: cultural policies and strategic management. Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, 18(4), 386-403.
This study is done in the city of Birjand, Iran. The city has social, cultural, economic, ...