The Effect of Strategic Vigilance in Shaping the Strategic Behavior: A Field Study in the Iraqi Tourism Board
Akram Abdulkareem
University of Mustansiriyah, College of Tourism Sciences, Hotels Management Department, Iraq
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http://doi.org/10.37648/ijtbm.v12i02.016
Abstract
The current research aims to know the degree of interest of the management of the General Authority for Tourism in information related to strategic vigilance and how to obtain and analyze it to take the required decisions as quickly as possible and in a timely manner. In its adoption of information systems and environmental sensing mechanisms that ensure the establishment of a state of strategic vigilance in the minds of those administrations, which is the complex problem that the research tries to dismantle to reach the most important causes and influencing factors, which stems mainly from the case of intellectual and theoretical treatment to establish a theoretical foundation for both dimensions, strategic vigilance and strategic behavior. The research sample included (91) observations from the administrations operating in the Iraqi Tourism Authority, and one of the most prominent conclusions is that the commission is still far from technical developments at the tourism and administrative level, and there is a regression from the adoption of modern technological means and outputs in the joints of the general performance in the commission, as there are still many Business is managed by means of transportation One of the most important recommendations is the need for the administration to spread the culture of adopting digital programs and modern technical outputs and support them financially through various tools and supplies, and then monitor the daily general performance to determine the extent of their application of that culture.
Keywords: strategic vigilance; Shaping the Strategic Behavior; General Tourism Organization
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