The purpose of this thesis was to explore senior managers¿ perceptions of
strategic management, with the specific context being the National Oil
Corporation in Libya. As such it represents a ground-breaking study at PhD
level. An extensive literature identified key themes and models of strategy
formulation and strategic management, in particular Karami¿s model of
strategic management (Karami, 2007) together with key factors influencing
the processes involved. This led to a study of the Libyan NOC based on a
two-stage research design, the first a survey involving two hundred and fifty
two senior managers of whom seventy returned completed questionnaires
and the second conducting twelve semi-structured follow up interviews to
deepen the findings from the questionnaire with qualitative data. The findings
of this thesis suggest that the Libyan NOC may have relied too heavily in the
past on strategy formulation and strategic management as the preserve of a
very few individuals at the very top of the organisation, as the role of the
great majority of senior managers was limited to monitoring and high level
supervision. It was found that although political directives set the strategy for the whole organisation, there was a gap in knowledge and understanding
between the senior business managers and the political appointments to the
Board. Recommendations for improving practice therefore concerned steps
in the strategic management process and senior managers¿ effectiveness
especially in the Board as a team. Recommendations for reflecting the
Libyan NOC as an example of a state-owned enterprise in Karami¿s model
were to include Board effectiveness as the first step, to add medium-term
objectives and to include social responsibility in environmental scanning
under external factors.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/5764 |
| Date | January 2013 |
| Creators | Atamna, Abdallah M.E. |
| Contributors | Analoui, Farhad, Cusworth, John W. |
| Publisher | University of Bradford, Development and Economic Studies |
| Source Sets | Bradford Scholars |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis, doctoral, PhD |
| Rights | <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-nd/3.0/88x31.png" /></a><br />The University of Bradford theses are licenced under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/">Creative Commons Licence</a>. |
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