ISSN:0143-2095    

DOI:10.1002/smj.4250130902

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThis essay discusses the character and significance of strategy process research. Process research in strategic management is paradigmatically diverse and empirically complex. Strategy process research has been narrow in its focus and its undoubted contribution has sometimes been obscured by the lack of explicit discourse about its analytical foundations. The essay draws on a wide range of social science ideas to lay out a set of internally consistent insights and assumptions to guide thinking and empirical inquiry about the analysis of process issues in strategic management. The essay also provides a guide to the eight papers contained in this special issue.

ISSN:0143-2095    

DOI:10.1002/smj.4250130903

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThis article reviews the strategic decision making literature by focusing on the dominant paradigms–i.e., rationality and bounded rationality, politics and power, and garbage can. We review the theory and key empirical support, and identify emergent debates within each paradigm. We conclude that strategic decision makers are boundedly rational, that power wins battles of choice, and that chance matters. Further, we argue that these paradigms rest on unrealistic assumptions and tired controversies which are no longer very controversial. We conclude with a research agenda that emphasizes a more realistic view of strategic decision makers and decision making, and greater attention to normative implications, especially among profit‐seeking firms in global conte

ISSN:0143-2095    

DOI:10.1002/smj.4250130904

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractMuch of the theory and research about change in organizations, by being presented free of rich context, creates a certain amount of confusion in the literature. This paper seeks to help remedy that situation by developing a comprehensive framework of change by organizations, built on various cycles: concentric to represent the contents and levels of change, circumferential to represent the means and processes of change, tangential to represent the episodes and stages of change, and spiraling to represent the sequences and patterns of change. This framework is fleshed out in conclusion by developing three models of change experienced by major world religions, labeled enclaving, cloning, and uprooting.

ISSN:0143-2095    

DOI:10.1002/smj.4250130905

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

AbstractThe paper reviews two streams of work on the issue of industrial regeneration and competitiveness–that from within the management research field, and that from economists, economic historians, and political scientists. It is argued that these streams have in the past been independent but there is much to be gained by sharing insights from each and applying them to the process within firms of generating competitiveness for that firm. By using insights from the newly emerging institutionalist school it is possible both to explain national differences in competitiveness and generate useful ideas for the managers of individual firms. The paper ends by setting out a research agenda, applying the insights from institutional analysis, for furthering our understanding of the strategic processes available to managers for regenerating and enhancing the competitiveness of the individual fir

ISSN:0143-2095    

DOI:10.1002/smj.4250130906

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

AbstractThe public sector has been unjustly neglected by the strategic management field as an object of study. In Britain we now see significant changes in public sector management, notably the introduction of an ‘internal market’ in the National Health Service. This paper reviews three theoretical perspectives on these developments and develops propositions for empirical enquiry based on the economic sociology perspect

ISSN:0143-2095    

DOI:10.1002/smj.4250130907

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

AbstractThis paper critically reviews the field of international business research. The field is characterized by considerable intellectual diversity, where theoretical focus is blurred by the multidisciplinary nature of the field. The review focuses on three themes that help shed light on internationalization as a strategy process; stage models of internationalization, studies of the link between strategy and structure in MNCs, and studies of administrative processes in MNCs and recent organizational models for MNCs. Sequential stages models are too deterministic and stress only early stages of internationalization. Conceptual contributions from research on structures following strategies have a very static character. Research on management processes in MNCs have a questionable empirical base and normative bent. Three key themes for future research on internationalization as a process are suggested. These themes, dealing with major omissions and weaknesses identified in the review, are: the study of acquisition processes and internationalization, the study of dynamic processes in MNCs, and the study of internationalization processes in their outer contexts.

ISSN:0143-2095    

DOI:10.1002/smj.4250130908

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThere are at least three perspectives on the interaction between strategy and technology. The first focuses on the effect of current technology on current strategy of the firm, the second on the effect of current strategy on future technology, and the third on the effect of current technology on future strategy. The essence of these effects are respectively: strategy capitalizes on technology, strategy cultivates technology, and technology drives cognition of strategy. As we go from the first to the third, it becomes less conventional, less oriented to economics, more development‐oriented and more process and organization‐oriented. Past strategy research has been dominated by the first perspective and thus has been too narrow and static. This paper tries to rectify this imbala

ISSN:0143-2095    

DOI:10.1002/smj.4250130909

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThe purpose of this paper is to argue that the destiny of the firm is closely linked to the evolution of product class in the industry and show that product‐class evolution is driven by the variation, retention and selection of dominant designs in the context of lumpy markets. The paper demonstrates that business strategy decisions cannot be undertaken without an intimate understanding of the relationship between the firm's technology trajectory and the opportunity space created by lumpiness in the market. The paper identifies where the major choices facing the executive team, and the processes they implement in response, significantly influence the scope direction and quality of technology strategy decision

ISSN:0143-2095    

DOI:10.1002/smj.4250130910

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThe study of managerial elites is one of the most important, yet neglected areas of social science research. This paper synthesizes and critically reviews three intellectual traditions in the study of managerial elites. These are: interlocking directorates and the study of institutional and societal power, the study of boards and directors, and the composition and correlates of top management teams. The paper concludes by arguing for the development of a complementary research tradition which combines a contextual and processual analysis of managerial elites.

ISSN:0143-2095    

DOI:10.1002/smj.4250130911

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY