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Presenting a major retrospective and prospective overview of strategy, this Handbook is an important benchmark volume for management scholars worldwide. The Handbook frames, assesses and synthesizes the work in the field. Chapters are grouped under four specific areas of strategy and management: Mapping a Terrain; Thinking and Acting Strategically; Changing Contexts; and Looking Forward. Within these parts, leading international scholars provide historical overviews of the key themes, address the central approaches which have characterized these themes, critically assess the quality of current theory and knowledge, and set out agendas for future theoretical and empirical development.
Strategic Management: The Strengths and Limitations of a Field
Strategic Management: The Strengths and Limitations of a Field
The purpose of this handbook is to present a major retrospective and prospective overview of research and writing on strategy and management. We make the distinction between the established field of strategic management with its notably successful scholarly journal (Strategic Management Journal) and society (Strategic Management Society) and the broader interests in the theory and practice of strategy and management. The classic questions of the strategist have been about the purposes, direction, choices, changes, governance, organization and performance of organizations in their industry, market and social, economic and political contexts. No doubt mindful of the old adage that if you try and see everything, you see nothing, many ...
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