Rethinking Strategy

by Henk W Volberda

• ISBN13: 9780761956457
• ISBN10: 076195645X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-05-02
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd

Summary

This is a new overview of the strategy field, with internationally renowned contributors summarizing the latest directions and developments in strategic management theory in the context of their theoretical roots in economics, organization theory, and systems theory.The contributors outline the most promising new directions on the basis of a systemic treatment of paradigms or schools of thought in strategy: redrawing firm boundaries, developing dynamic capabilities and discovering viable strategy configurations.The volume will be an invaluable companion to advanced courses in strategy and management, used as a reader alongside case material and field studies. As well as providing a summary and evaluation of the different

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	vii
Preface	xi
PART I THEORY, SCHOOLS AND PRACTICE
Schools of Thought in Strategic Management: Fragmentation, Integration or Synthesis	1	(25)
Tom Elfring
Henk W. Volberda
Business Policy and Strategy as a Professional Field	26	(15)
J.-C. Spender
Thoughts on Schools	41	(2)
Henry Mintzberg
PART II INTEGRATION EFFORTS IN THE FIELD
Complexity and Multiple Rationalities in Strategy Processes	43	(14)
Patrick Regner
The Role of the Strategist	57	(12)
Thomas Ericson
Anders Melander
Leif Melin
What Makes Time Strategic?	69	(13)
Frans A.J. van den Bosch
Fragmentation in Strategic Management	82	(10)
Patrice Cooper
The Elusive Search for Integration	92	(5)
Paul J.H. Schoemaker
PART III THE BOUNDARY SCHOOL: STRATEGY AS A BOUNDARY DECISION
The Boundary School	97	(19)
Nicolai J. Foss
Managing Beyond Boundaries: The Dynamics of Trust in Alliances	116	(12)
Christian Koenig
Gilles van Wijk
Strategic Alliances	128	(12)
Janine Stiles
The Boundary Decision in Strategy	140	(3)
Charles Baden-Fuller
PART IV THE DYNAMIC CAPABILITIES SCHOOL: STRATEGY AS A COLLECTIVE LEARNING PROCESS TO DEVELOP DISTINCTIVE COMPETENCES
Building Blocks for Strategy Theory: Resources, Dynamic Capabilities and Competences	143	(15)
Ron Sanchez
Modularity and Dynamic Capabilities	158	(14)
Ron Sanchez
Joseph T. Mahoney
Strategic Learning in a Knowledge-intensive Organization	172	(19)
Paula Kirjavainen
The State of Art of the Dynamic Capabilities School	191	(7)
Howard Thomas
PART V THE CONFIGURATIONAL SCHOOL: STRATEGY AS A DECISION OF TRANSITION FROM ONE ARCHETYPE TO ANOTHER
Researching Configuration	198	(14)
Henry Mintzberg
Bruce Ahlstrand
Joseph Lampel
A Framework for a Managerial Understanding of Strategy Development	212	(19)
Andy Bailey
Gerry Johnson
Strategy Configurations in the Evolution of Markets	231	(9)
Michael W. Lawless
Configurations and the Firm in Current Strategic Management	240	(5)
Johannes M. Pennings
PART VI NEW DIRECTIONS IN STRATEGY: WAYS TO SYNTHESIZE
Multiple Futures of Strategy Synthesis: Shifting Boundaries, Dynamic Capabilities and Strategy Configurations	245	(41)
Tom Elfring
Henk W. Volberda
References	286	(31)
Index	317