This thesis analyses the effects of relative market share and the rate of market growth on the strategic characteristics and financial performance of selected companies quoted on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange over the period 1977 to 198. It is well established that business performance is partially contingent upon relative market share position and the rate of market growth. Together these variables comprise the basis of the Boston Consulting Group approach to portfolio analysis in the form of the Boston Consulting Group Growth/Share Matrix. A methodology was designed to test the validity of this matrix in measuring and predicting corporate behaviour at the business level in South Africa. Selected companies were placed into the matrix and analysed in terms of their strategic attributes (represented by selected financial ratios) and their level of performance (represented by a wide range of financial performance measures). The research findings show that relative market share and the rate of market growth have a significant impact on the strategic attributes and financial performance of South African businesses. Also, certain attributes are closely associated with particular types of performance. Therefore, given a specific performance target, management should ultimately be able to isolate and monitor the relevant strategic attributes in ensuring that the target is achieved. The analysis of contingent models of strategy is still in its infancy, but this study indicates that the field is possessed of great potential.

The subject of this thesis is to propose suitable business strategies that will lead to strengthening of the company's current situation and increase of sales. The thesis is divided into theoretical and practical part. The first part theoretically describes methods and procedures used in the practical part. The second part analyses external and internal environment of the chosen company and from the obtained results SWOT analysis and BCG portfolio matrix are created. Subsequently, new strategy is created separately for different individual strategic business units. In the end, chosen strategies are developed into four parts with regards to marketing, finance, R&D and product portfolio.

This diploma thesis is concerned with a comprehensive analysis of ZETOR TRACTORS a.s. company. The main goal and mission of the analysis is to depict an actual stage of the company by some procedures and methods from the financial statements and the strategy and financial analysis, and on the basis of these analysises suggest some solutions and recommendations, which could be the subject matter towards improvement of the current situation in the future.

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This dissertation constructs a cultural history of women's performances in Boston from 1762-1823, using materialist feminism and ethnohistory. I look at how "woman" was historically understood at that time, and how women used those discourses to their advantage when constructing performances that allowed them to intervene in political culture. I examine a broad range of performance activities from white, black, and Native American women of all classes. Chapter two discusses three of Boston's elite female intellectuals: Mercy Otis Warren, Judith Sargent Murray, and Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton. Though each woman's writings have been examined individually, I examine them as a community. With the connections and public recognition they built, they helped found the Federal Street Theatre where they could have a ventrioloquized embodied performance for their ideas on women's rights, abolition, and political parties. Chapter three looks at the construction of three solo performances: Phillis Wheatley performing her poetry in 1772; the 1802 theatre tour of Deborah Sampson Gannett, who fought as a man in the revolution; and the monologues and wax effigy creations of Patience Lovell Wright circa 1772. These women depended on their performances for sustenance, and in Wheatley's case, to secure her freedom from bondage. I look at the way these women created a mythology about themselves and crafted a marketable image, both on and off the stage. In particular, I examine the ways each grappled with a charged discourse surrounding their bodies. In chapter four I look at fashion as performance. I explore homespun dresses as political propaganda, Native American and black women's use of clothing to express cultural pride that white Anglo society had attempted to erase, and the way that women used mourning costumes to perform and create nationalism at the mock funerals held for Washington after he died in 1799. In my conclusion I contrast the 2008 miniseries John Adams with a solo performance of Phillis Wheatley. I briefly trace the trajectory of the history of women during this time. I argue that focusing on performance identifies and legitimizes other sources of evidence and locates examples of women's agency in shaping popular culture. / text

This thesis deals with an optimal strategy choice of a company. The issues of products and services, marketing and mainly strategic management with emphasis on optimal strategy choice of a company are described in theoretical part. There are introduced fundamental methods of internal and external strategic analysis. With use of mentioned facts a program for support of strategic management is proposed. This program is aiming to make well structured and quantifiable methods of strategic analysis easier and more clear, based on which it is possible to define and choose an optimal strategy of a company.

The aim of this diploma thesis is to create a corporate strategy of a company, which will lead to a new definition of SBUs and provide us with main direction for business strategy of each SBU. The thesis consists of theoretical knowledge of the subject related to strategy and strategy analysis of current position of the company.