Using soft OR in a small company––The case of Kirby

An analysis of the implementation of an environmental management system in a local public administration

“…The SWOT method, which was developed in the 1960s, has been used recently within the context of many private and public organizations (Bernroider, 2002;El-Khishin, 2003;Jackson et al, 2003;Chiu and Yong, 2004;Dyson, 2004;Doratli et al, 2004;Sorensen et al, 2004;Srivastava et al 2005). The SWOT analysis is widely recognized and it constitutes an important basis for learning about the situation and for designing future procedures which can be seen as necessary for thinking in a strategic way.…”

Unpacking multimethodology: Impacts of a community development intervention

“…The former is concerned with the feasibility of mixing methodologies from different paradigms -namely, the commensurability versus incommensurability debate -(e.g. Eden, Ackermann, Bryson, Richardson, & Andersen, 2009;Jackson, 2009;Kotiadis & Mingers, 2006;Mingers, 1997;Zhu, 2011); whereas the latter relates to the different ways in which specific methodologies, methods and tools are actually mixed in organisational interventions (Brown, Cooper, & Pidd, 2006;Ferreira, 2013;Franco & Lord, 2011;Gondal, 2004;Ormerod, 2001;Pollack, 2009;Small & Wainwright, 2014;Sørensen, Vidal, & Engstrom, 2004;Tako & Kotiadis, 2015;Williams, Ackermann, & Eden, 2003;Yearworth & White, 2013).…”

The Relevance of Networking Strategy in Agribusiness: An Italian Empirical Case Study

“…The swot analysis is a transparent planning instrument enables a company or a place to learn about the current situation and reflect on what can be done to improve the current situation (Sorensen, Vidal, & Engström, 2004); after analyzing the external and internal environments, the firms are able to decide which competitive strategies should be used to achieve its competitive objective. The competitive strategies could be used to "exploit opportunities in the firm's environment with the firm's strength, and neutralizes threats in the firm's environment while avoiding the firm's weaknesses" (Barney, 2007) The Author believes that detailed and accurate swot analysis should be the starting point for identifying and implementing the most appropriate strategy of agglomeration of the agri-food businesses in the researched area, that is a place that-although many producers of fruit and vegetables and many material resources to be used-fails to create an integrated and efficient system and subsequently an unique brand.…”