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Makale Özeti:
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Azerbaijan which is referred to as “land of fire” has s geopolitical location at the
crossroad between Europe and Asia. The Azerbaijan has a small, open but fast
growing economy (Hölscher, 2012). Azerbaijan is the most stable country in
regards to economic and politic conditions in Caucasus. The existence of rich
natural resources, educated human resources and being on a crucial area increase
the possibility of brilliant future of Azerbaijan Republic (Zengin, 2010). One of the
strategic advantages of Azerbaijan is being located on a vital transport and energy
corridor in a globalized network of capital, goods and services in between Europe
and Asia (Baranick and Salayeva, 2005). The mentioned situation of Azerbaijan
economy results in attracting more investments (Zengin, 2010). Companies in
Azerbaijan, similar to other developing economies’ organizations, have a
significant role in supporting establishment of new economy in the transition
period. Moving aboard, being global and building desirable future can be
accomplished by strategic visions. In order to discuss future of Azerbaijan
economy, this paper has been aimed to investigate vision statements of Azerbaijan
companies and underline most frequently expressed issues. Main characteristics of
transition economy, transformation of Azerbaijan and the role of organizational
vision on strategic objectives have been discussed in the first part of theoretical
section. In the second part, main question of the research and methodological
settings are structured in order to investigate Azerbaijan companies’ visions. After
determining most frequented issues in vision statements, each of them has been
investigated in details.
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