Title Successful implementation of strategic actions

Authors

  • Irena Gašperlin
  • Mirko Markič

Keywords:

companies, financial performance, management, measures, planning, strategic actions

Abstract

Research Question (RQ): Which strategic actions are most used in successful organization?

In which strategic measures are managers most involved in sucessful organisation.

Purpose: To conduct empirical research on planing and execution of strategical measures in successful organisation based on theoretical standpoints about strategical management.

Method: In empirical research we conducted a survey on 216 small, 106 medium and 42 large companies with credit rating of A, which was acquired in 2017.

Results: We discovered that same strategical measures are executed as efficiently in the same branches or the same size of the company.

Organization: With appropriate strategic analysis executive management can choose appropeate strategies and choose actions that are  suggested by the workers.

Society: Findings from this research can serve as a base for development of further strategic measures in management and can lead to better efiiciency in execution of strategic measures in organisation and society.

Originality: Research about the systematic execution of key strategic measures and other more critical inhibiting factors which affect the succesfull operation of the companies in Slovenia.

Limitations/Future Research: The sample wasn't conducted with comanies in all possible credit ratings.

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Published

2026-08-17

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Title Successful implementation of strategic actions. (2026). Journal of Universal Excellence, 8(3). https://ojs.fos-unm.si/index.php/ruo/article/view/373

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