i recommend you to look forward about intellectual capital strategic management

Two of the topics that we are working on currently are

a) Defining the link between strategy and organisations project portfolios

b) Defining a set of KPIs that can be used for measuring this link

Ben, This is a pretty broad question. One approach is to look at the latest issues of the Strategic Management journal, especially the online first (advance copies) to get a sense of where the field is going. 

In terms of interesting topics I think that micro-foundation studies are very interesting, where we look at how individual processes and actions shape the strategic formulation and implementation of a firm. A really interesting area of study is to explore the impact of failure experience on firm performance. For example how does the individual experience of failure of people in teams shape the performance characteristics of the team and in turn the strategic performance of the firm. For example how does the prior experience of success and failure by individuals in say an R&D team influence the team's approach to managing the design and implementation of a new R&D project. Does prior failure experience result in more conservative approaches (a fear of failure), more novelty (abandoning of past ideas in favour of novel approaches that have not been tried before), improved resilience by the team (carry on trying to succeed in the face of initial failures etc). In turn how does the failure experience of the firm influence its decisions to select projects. Looking from the individual upwards and the firm downwards may cast light on whether or not failure experience plays a role in the formulation and implementation of strategies and how these influence firm performance (e.g. innovativeness of product portfolio, firm financial performance etc). Just some thoughts from projects that a few of us are working on at present. Good luck with your research. Peter

Hi Maha, Panos & Peter!

Thanks a lot for yours above

A couple of areas come to mind.  First Mintzberg's critique of strategic planning in his Strategy Safari, raising many legitimate questions about practices calling themselves strategic.  A second would be in the cross-cultural and cross-national comparison area, including postcolonial critiques about whether some models really do transfer to different conditions and jurisdictional contexts.

Ben,

This is a broad question. My specific focus area have been emotional intelligence. There are two (2) areas of study.

1. My current work in which data is currently being collected is a comparison study of executives and entry level supervisor’s relationships, personality, emotional intelligence and leadership self-efficacy. This study aims to show the degree of changes if any personality relates to organizational role. The study examines the influences organizational role has on individual’s perceptions to lead and personality and emotional intelligence influences on those perceptions.

2. Future topic being conceptualized and to be researched. Individual’s emotional intelligence influencing investment decision when corporate data is utilized. Do emotional intelligence individual rely on corporate data more than non-emotional intelligence individuals – impacts. If interested I would be willing to collaborate on this study topic.