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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
Configurations and the Firm in Current Strategic Management
Configurations and the Firm in Current Strategic Management
In this commentary, I shall review the current efforts to discern configurations in the structures and processes of decision making and behavioural routines as observed in and around organizations. The chapters in Part V concentrate on the architecture of organizations, their strategic choices and organizational arrangements. Organizations might reveal patterns that have inspired some authors to infer a particular configuration. The seemingly discernable types of architecture or design have led them to establish types – for example, the well-known Burns and Stalker (1961) organic and mechanistic systems of management or Likert's (1961) system I to system IV classification of organizations. In fact, the visibility of research efforts has been ...
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