Literature Review of Strategic Transformation—Based on the Literature Supported by the National Natural Science Fund and the National Social Science Fund of China — Oak Academic Publishing
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Literature Review of Strategic Transformation—Based on the Literature Supported by the National Natural Science Fund and the National Social Science Fund of China
South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China
1 South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China
Chinese enterprises have entered to the speed competition instead of the scale competition; the enterprises can match with the dynamic environment better through strategic transformation. In this paper, we selected 51 literatures about enterprise strategic transformation from the “national natural science fund” and “national social science fund”, and based on this 51 literatures, we analyze these literatures in terms of the concept, motivation, transformation process and the result of strategic transformation, analyze the current research situation and research deficiencies of the existing research, prospect the future research, in order to provide guidance to Chinese enterprises and scholars.
KeywordsStrategic TransformationTransformation ConceptTransformation MotivationTransformation ProcessTransformation Result
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