Business-Level Strategy for the Foreign Commercial Banks operating within Malaysia

This paper discusses the strategic positioning and use of Porter’s (1980) generic strategy framework within the foreign commercial banks operating in Malaysia. It was found that two distinct strategic groups were formed by the foreign commercial banks. Performance analysis conducted suggests that ba...

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Main Author: Rasool Khan, Mohamed Rizal
Format: Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2007
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/23985/
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description This paper discusses the strategic positioning and use of Porter’s (1980) generic strategy framework within the foreign commercial banks operating in Malaysia. It was found that two distinct strategic groups were formed by the foreign commercial banks. Performance analysis conducted suggests that banks with clearer strategic direction managed to outperform its peers in its strategic group. Furthermore, the performance of one strategic group was significantly lower than that of the second.
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spelling nottingham-239852018-01-30T13:19:29Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/23985/ Business-Level Strategy for the Foreign Commercial Banks operating within Malaysia Rasool Khan, Mohamed Rizal This paper discusses the strategic positioning and use of Porter’s (1980) generic strategy framework within the foreign commercial banks operating in Malaysia. It was found that two distinct strategic groups were formed by the foreign commercial banks. Performance analysis conducted suggests that banks with clearer strategic direction managed to outperform its peers in its strategic group. Furthermore, the performance of one strategic group was significantly lower than that of the second. 2007 Dissertation (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/23985/1/mohamedrizal.pdf Rasool Khan, Mohamed Rizal (2007) Business-Level Strategy for the Foreign Commercial Banks operating within Malaysia. [Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)] (Unpublished)
spellingShingle Rasool Khan, Mohamed Rizal
Business-Level Strategy for the Foreign Commercial Banks operating within Malaysia
title Business-Level Strategy for the Foreign Commercial Banks operating within Malaysia
title_full Business-Level Strategy for the Foreign Commercial Banks operating within Malaysia
title_fullStr Business-Level Strategy for the Foreign Commercial Banks operating within Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Business-Level Strategy for the Foreign Commercial Banks operating within Malaysia
title_short Business-Level Strategy for the Foreign Commercial Banks operating within Malaysia
title_sort business-level strategy for the foreign commercial banks operating within malaysia
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/23985/