Strategy and planning in Swedish Companies : - Corporate perceptions: A study of six Swedish companies

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Frequently discussed in different contexts, corporate strategy and strategic planning is somethingwhich importance hardly will diminish over the coming years as competition grows harder. The needsfor companies to think ahead of their business operations have grown increasingly during thedecades.From the viewpoint of an independent researcher I have decided to look at Swedish companiesoperating in Sweden and abroad. I want to know how the strategic planning process takes place inthese companies, in order to give an insight to what the process could look like in Sweden today.My research question has been: How is strategic planning perceived in Swedish companies?I have selected some different theories from the university library’s collection of databases,respectively dealing with leadership, outsourcing, business intelligence et cetera.These theories are the foundation of the semi-structured and by telephone, in-person and internetperformed interviews with seven different managers at some selected companies in differentbusinesses, mainly located in northern Sweden. Asking questions based on the underlying theories Ihave been able to draw some conclusions about the planning processes in the studied companies.The study shows that almost all companies have some kind strategic planning process and that moreor less all of them to some extent consider some of the theories employed in the theory chapter.While...