The Strategy Process

by Mintzberg, Henry; Lampel, Joseph; Quinn, James Brian; Ghoshal, Sumantra

• ISBN13: 9780273651208
• ISBN10: 027365120X
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-09-01
• Publisher: Ft Pr

Summary

Strategic Management at all levels. Also courses in strategic marketing, organization theory, decision theory, public administration, and political science departments. Breaking away from the traditional formulation, - implementation approach that dominates strategy textbooks, this text sees strategy analysis as taking place in a wider organizational and managerial context. This Global edition retains the basic readings and cases approach of the US and European editions and now introduces a truly international perspective to present an up-to-date look at how actual companies act strategically and the research driving them.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	viii
Introduction	ix
SECTION I STRATEGY	1	(198)
Strategies	2	(28)
Five Ps for Strategy	3	(7)
Strategies for Change	10	(6)
What Is Strategy?	16	(6)
Reflecting on the Strategy Process	22	(8)
Strategists	30	(40)
The Manager's Job	32	(14)
Artists, Craftsmen, and Technocrats	46	(6)
Good Managers Don't Make Policy Decisions	52	(5)
The Leader's New Work: Building Learning Organizations	57	(9)
In Praise of Middle Managers	66	(4)
Formulating Strategy	70	(22)
The Concept of Corporate Strategy	72	(8)
Evaluating Business Strategy	80	(8)
Strategic Intent	88	(4)
Analyzing Strategy	92	(47)
How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy	94	(8)
Looking Inside for Competitive Advantage	102	(3)
Sustaining Superior Performance: Commitments and Capabilities	105	(7)
Competitive Maneuvering	112	(3)
Generic Strategies	115	(12)
A Guide to Strategic Positioning	127	(12)
Strategy Formation	139	(27)
Crafting Strategy	141	(8)
Strategy as Strategic Decision Making	149	(3)
The Honda Effect	152	(8)
Honda Mythology and the Strategy Industry	160	(6)
Strategic Change	166	(33)
Transforming Organizations	168	(8)
Convergence and Upheaval: Managing the Unsteady Pace of Organizational Evolution	176	(7)
Logical Incrementalism: Managing Strategy Formation	183	(6)
The Crescendo Model of Rejuvenation	189	(10)
SECTION II FORCES	199	(112)
Cognition	200	(7)
The Dangers of Objectivity	201	(2)
Strategy as Cognition	203	(4)
Organization	207	(35)
The Structuring of Organizations	209	(17)
Strategy and Organization Planning	226	(8)
The Design of New Organizational Forms	234	(8)
Technology	242	(14)
Customizing Customization	243	(5)
Avoiding the Pitfalls of Emerging Technologies	248	(8)
Collaboration	256	(16)
Collaborating to Compete	257	(4)
Why Create Alliances	261	(6)
Creating Knowledge Through Collaboration	267	(5)
Globalization	272	(22)
Managing Across Borders: New Organizational Responses	273	(7)
Global Strategy... in a World of Nations	280	(9)
Seven Myths Regarding Global Strategy	289	(5)
Values	294	(17)
New Values, Morality, and Strategic Ethics	295	(5)
Leadership in Administration	300	(3)
A New Manifesto for Management	303	(8)
SECTION III CONTEXTS	311	(173)
Managing Start-Ups	312	(22)
The Entrepreneurial Organization	315	(8)
Competitive Strategy in Emerging Industries	323	(3)
How Entrepreneurs Craft Strategies that Work	326	(8)
Managing Maturity	334	(36)
The Machine Organization	336	(14)
Cost Dynamics: Scale and Experience Effects	350	(6)
Innovation in Bureaucracy	356	(5)
Challenges to Organizations and Information Technology	361	(9)
Managing Experts	370	(33)
The Professional Organization	372	(11)
Managing Intellect	383	(7)
Balancing the Professional Service Firm	390	(8)
Covert Leadership: Notes on Managing Professionals	398	(5)
Managing Innovation	403	(29)
The Innovative Organization	405	(14)
Managing in the Whitespace	419	(4)
Anticipating the Cellular Form	423	(3)
The Core Competencies of Project-Based Firms	426	(6)
Managing Diversity	432	(28)
The Diversified Organization	434	(11)
Managing Large Groups in the East and West	445	(6)
From Competitive Advantage to Corporate Strategy	451	(9)
Managing Otherwise	460	(24)
Beyond Configuration	462	(6)
Organizational Adaptation	468	(3)
Strategy Innovation and the Quest for Value	471	(4)
How We Went Digital Without a Strategy	475	(4)
Managing Quietly	479	(5)
Bibliography for Readings	484	(3)
Name Index	487	(2)
Subject Index	489