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- Title
New Perspectives in Strategic Management - "From Gana-Tantra to Gun-Tantra".
- Authors
Sharma, Prashant
- Abstract
Through this paper an effort has been made to provide new perspectives in strategic management for combating with the heartbreaking menace of Gun-Tantra to the nations where Republic form of government culture (GANA-TANTRA) prevails and which is transformed into GUN-TANTRA by spiking rise in gun-culture. Moreover, this paper also focuses on the societies most affected by the GUN-TANTRA (system or culture of guns) and primarily emphasizes on one of the largest economies of the world i.e. U.S.A which is affected the most by gun culture epidemic. In this paper, the increasing inclination of individuals towards acquisition, procurement and use of highly sophisticated firearms has been portrayed as GUNTANTRA which means the system or culture of guns. This drift of a society from GANA-TANTRA (A republic State) towards Gun-Tantra is caused due to the lacuna in laws in such nations or States, political ill-will and various other factors. These factors are strategically dominated by the organizations engaged in the manufacturing, sale, modifying and transfer of firearms and ammunition business in order to achieve its objective of gaining larger customer base through making them addictive, showing fear of life, promoting guns as the means of safety, portraying procurement of firearms as a symbol of masculinity and power and earn much larger market share by penetrating the market, regulating the demand and supply for its products and services. The strategic model adopted by such organizations is called the STM model (STRATEGIC TACTICAL MOTION or action) which has its own socio-economic and political implications. The FDI (Fear & fascination, Depression and Instigation) tools of STM model and the focus areas of STM model (as discussed later) provide for the modus-operandi to this model to operate within a society and when such a model becomes successful, albeit it brings win-win situation for the organizations engaged in the business of fire arms or for other players of different industry which are correlated with the firearms industry such as online violent gaming platforms like PUBG or Battleground and other similar platforms and games, it eventually also gives rise to the opportunity for these players to develop a new market which is called the 'Violent market' and encash upon the larger market share at the cost of Health, Life and Liberty (HLL) of the citizens, wherein the 3D transformation of a vibrant society towards the state of DEVASTATION, DISHARMONY, & DARKNESS (3D) starts spreading its roots and become an aspersion to that society. The aim of this paper is also to suggest for the strategic creation and implementation of the arms laws by the nations or the States in a manner which on the one hand does not infringe the rights of the people of a particular nation or State and simultaneously on the other hand remove the redundant laws as per the changing needs of the society, so that the alarming increase in the despicable acts of individuals, organized and unorganized crimes can be reduced and this can be achieved through the positive and honest political will and cooperation, amendment and enactment of new stringent laws in line with the proposed LAW (LEGAL AUTHORITATIVE WISDOM) and PEACE model of governance and leadership, where P-refers to Progressiveness, E-refers to the Efficiency, A-refers to the Action, C-refers to the Cooperation and E-refers to the Evaluation.
- Subjects
GUN laws; GOVERNMENT purchasing; INTERNET in public administration; STRATEGIC planning; VIDEO game consoles; VIDEO game industry; INTERNATIONAL law; CIVIL society
- Publication
3D: IBA Journal of Management & Leadership, 2022, Vol 14, Issue 1, p20
- ISSN
2230-7524
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5281/zenodo.7584354