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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.
Corporate Strategy: The Role of the Centre
Corporate Strategy: The Role of the Centre
What is the role of the centre in multibusiness firms? This question lies at the heart of what academics call ‘corporate strategy’ (as opposed to business strategy). As a result, it has received extensive attention in the academic literature and has been the subject of numerous studies since the early 1960s - Chandler's (1962) book being the catalyst for the ensuing research on the subject.
This question has obvious managerial relevance as well and this has not gone unnoticed by consultants. As a result, to the voluminous academic literature on the subject, one could add an equally impressive body of work coming out of consulting houses - the BCG portfolio matrix being the ...
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