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ABSTRACTThis article argues that the prevailing dichotomization of organizational studies into voluntarist and deterministic orientations is too simple, and that this simplicity has dangerous consequences for accounts of strategic choice. Determinism has been equated exclusively with the operation of environmental constraint, with the implication that the agency necessary for strategic choice can be secured simply by the removal of this constraint. This focus on external constraint has obscured the continuing influence of ‘action determinist’ positions, in which action is determined by mechanisms internal to the actor him/herself. This article argues that many recent theorists of strategic choice have relied too much on the interpretive voluntarist dissolution of environmental structure and neglected to safeguard themselves from the action determinism latent in the Carnegie tradition. the article proposes an alternative Realist account that, by contrast with interpretive voluntarism, incorporates environmental structure as an essential precondition to actors’ internal and external capacities for strategic c

ISSN:0022-2380    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6486.1988.tb00045.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACTThe progress made in strategic groups research is evaluated by identifying its relevance and importance to the field of strategic management. A classificatory scheme is developed using two dimensions: the operationalization of strategy; and the approach to group development. A review framework incorporating key analytical dimensions is drawn up to (a) develop a taxonomy for classifying the available empirical research on strategic groups; (b) assess the research and identify important summary patterns and (c) develop specific research directions from a stategic management perspective.

ISSN:0022-2380    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6486.1988.tb00046.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0022-2380    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6486.1988.tb00047.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

ABSTRACTThe literature on marketing planning is largely prescriptive in nature, with little reporting of empirical research. Additionally, the latter has been mostly concerned with classifying the official planning procedures that organizations have adopted. This article reports research which has investigated the perceptions of individual managers towards marketing planning. the overall result is that many differences of perception were identified, including major differences between managers in the same organizations. This insight also allowed for the development of a number of theoretical propositions.

ISSN:0022-2380    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6486.1988.tb00048.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0022-2380    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6486.1988.tb00049.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY

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Book Review in this ArticleMorgan, Gareth.Images of Organization.Cusumano, M. A.The Japanese Automobile Industry.Halberstam, D.The Reckoning.Williams, K., Williams, J. and Haslam, C.The Breakdown of Austin Rover, a Case Study in the Failure of Business Strategy and Industrial Policy.Edwards, P. K.Managing the Factory.Mole, R. H.Basic Investment Appraisal.

ISSN:0022-2380    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6486.1988.tb00050.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY