Status
As such, Business Development and its associated tasks and processes are often indiscernible from traditional management and marketing approaches, such as strategic management, marketing management, sales and marketing, and entrepreneurship.
While there is much activity carried out under the umbrella of ‘‘business development’’, there is not a consistent picture to guide business practitioners and other stakeholders in the understanding of what effective business development actually is. This may hamper effective management of business development and, critically, it does not enable scientific scrutiny and tests of when and where business development activities actually contribute to superior performance across firm types and across industries.
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Famous quotes containing the word status:
“The influx of women into paid work and her increased power raise a woman’s aspirations and hopes for equal treatment at home. Her lower wage and status at work and the threat of divorce reduce what she presses for and actually expects.”
—Arlie Hochschild (20th century)
“At all events, as she, Ulster, cannot have the status quo, nothing remains for her but complete union or the most extreme form of Home Rule; that is, separation from both England and Ireland.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.”
—Clive James (b. 1939)