Mapping Strategic Diversity: Strategic Thinking from a Variety of Perspectives

, by Jacobs; Dany

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ISBN: 9780415550246 | 0415550246
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Copyright: 11/11/2009

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In Mapping Strategic Diversity, Dany Jacobs extends Henry Mintzberg's work to demonstrate the genuine diversity of strategy approaches used in the real world of strategic management.

List of figures and tables	p. x
Preface	p. xii
The essence of strategy: key components	p. 1
What do you know about strategy? What do you think about it?	p. 1
What are we talking about when we discuss strategy?	p. 2
How important is strategy?	p. 6
Basic components of strategy?	p. 10
Strategy and organizational levels	p. 15
Prescriptive and descriptive strategy approaches	p. 17
'Tame' and 'wicked' problems	p. 24
The score so far	p. 29
Some traditional strategy typologies	p. 30
Introduction	p. 30
Porter: cost versus added value	p. 30
Innovativeness: Miles and Snow	p. 35
Ansoff and others: development trajectories for large corporations	p. 36
Miller and Friesen: archetypes of strategy-making	p. 38
Strategy: long live diversity!	p. 40
30 Ps for perspectives on strategy: toward strategic-style flexibility	p. 41
How many Ps can you think of?	p. 41
Perspectives and the case for style flexibility	p. 42
Strategy as a Plan or Programme	p. 44
Strategy as a Pattern or Path	p. 44
Strategy as a Position	p. 45
Strategy as a Perspective, Personality, Profile, Paradigm and Perception	p. 46
Strategy as a Ploy and a Principle	p. 47
From 15 to more than 30 Ps	p. 50
Summary and synthesis of the first three chapters	p. 52
Appendix: avoid the frontal attack! What managers can learn from the military	p. 53
The strategy forest	p. 59
What do you know about it? What do you think of it?	p. 59
The (bounded) rationality of strategy	p. 60
'Splitters' and 'lumpers'	p. 63
Four groups of strategy schools	p. 65
The first maps of the strategy forest	p. 70
Where there's a will, there's a way: all-powerful optimists	p. 72
Eight schools	p. 72
The design school	p. 73
The entrepreneurial or vision school	p. 76
The planning school	p. 78
The positioning or I0 school	p. 84
The portfolio approach	p. 87
The resource-based and competence-based approaches	p. 91
The resource-dependence or stakeholder approach	p. 97
The configuration school	p. 100
Many roads to excellence	p. 103
The entrepreneur deliberates, the market decides: cautious optimists	p. 106
Four schools	p. 106
The transaction-cost approach (and related economic theories)	p. 107
Game theory	p. 114
The evolutionary school	p. 121
The guerrilla approach	p. 129
They're big and we're small-and that's not fair	p. 131
That's the way we see it, that's the way we do it: framed rationality	p. 134
Four schools	p. 134
The critical school	p. 135
Postmodernism	p. 137
The cognitive school	p. 139
The cultural school	p. 142
Strong thoughts and routines	p. 145
Everything flows: interactive players	p. 147
Six schools	p. 147
The learning school	p. 149
The political school	p. 153
The identity approach	p. 157
Systems dynamics	p. 161
Social constructivism	p. 164
Complexity and co-evolution	p. 173
Strategy never ends	p. 183
The second atlas of the forest	p. 186
Back to the bigger picture	p. 186
All the perspectives in one map	p. 186
Strategy in practice: the strategic prayer wheel revisited	p. 191
On to the paradoxes	p. 196
Gusts at the top of the Pico Paradox	p. 197
Why are paradoxes strategically important?	p. 197
What is a paradox?	p. 198
The danger of denying paradoxes	p. 199
Dealing with ambiguity	p. 201
Steering and self-organization	p. 201
Hybrid 'solutions'	p. 204
Paradoxes relating to the internal context	p. 206
Paradoxes relating to the external context	p. 208
Paradoxes relating to the strategy-making process	p. 210
Paradoxes relating to content	p. 211
Notes	p. 214
Bibliography	p. 221
Index	p. 230
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