Table of Content
Contents: Chapter XVII: conclusion, Chester I. Barnard; The concept of corporate strategy, Kenneth R. Andrews; Concept of strategy, H. Igor Ansoff; A conceptual and operational model of corporate planning, George A. Steiner; Impact of strategic planning on profit performance, Sidney Schoeffler, Robert D. Buzzell and Donald F. Heaney; Costs and experience, price and experience and experience and competitive interaction, The Boston Consulting Group; Scenarios: shooting the rapids, Pierre Wack; Planning as learning, Arie P. de Geus. The Learning School: The Natural Selection View: Populations, natural selection and applied organizational science, Bill McKelvey and Howard Aldrich. The Incremental View: The science of 'muddling through', Charles E. Lindblom; If planning is everything, maybe it's nothing, Aaron Wildavsky; Strategic change: 'logical incrementalism', James Brian Quinn; Rethinking incrementalism, Gerry Johnson. The Cultural View: Recipes, crises and adaptation in mature business, P.H. Grinyer and J.C. Spender; Organizational paradigms: a theory of organizational change, Alan Sheldon. The Political View: A strategic contingencies theory of intraorganizational power, D.J. Hickson, C.R. Hinings, C.A. Lee, R.E. Schneck and J.M. Pennings; Rational decision making in business organizations, Herbert A. Simon; Organizational structure, environment and performance: the role of strategic choice, John Child; Strategy formulation as a political process, Andrew M. Pettigrew; On studying managerial elites, Andrew M. Pettigrew. The Visionary View: Top management teams and organizational renewal, David K. Hurst, James C. Rush and Roderick E. White. Patterns of Strategy Development: Strategy-making in 3 modes, Henry Mintzberg; Of strategies, deliberate and emergent, Henry Mintzberg and James A. Waters; 3 models of strategy, Ellen Earle Chaffee.
