1. Macmillan and Tampoe Oxford University Press 2000
Strategic Management
Macmillan and Tampoe
Oxford University Press 2000
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2. Introduction to Strategy and Strategic Management
Chapter 3
Schools of thought on strategy and strategic management
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3. Aspects of Strategy Statement of ends, purposes and intent
High level plan
Element of leadership
Positioning for the future
Building capability
Fit between capabilities and opportunities
Result of deep involvement with business
Pattern of behaviour resulting from embedded culture
An emerging pattern of successful behaviour
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4. Different perspectives of strategic management
Whittington
4 Generic approaches
Mintzberg, Ahlstrand and Lampel
3 Prescriptive Schools
7 Descriptive Schools
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5. Whittington’s 4 Generic Approaches to Strategy
Source: Adapted from R. Whittington What is Strategy - and Does it Matter? (Routledge 1993)
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6. The three prescriptive schools
School Nature of Process
Design Conception
Planning Formal Planning
Positioning Analysis
Source: Adapted from Mintzberg,Ahlstrand and Lampel Strategy Safari Prentice Hall (1998)
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7. The seven descriptive schools
School Nature of Process
Entrepreneurial Vision
Cognitive Mental Process
Learning Emergent
Power Negotiation
Cultural Collective process
Environmental Reactive process
Configuration Transformational
Source: Adapted from Mintzberg,Ahlstrand and Lampel Strategy Safari Prentice Hall (1998)
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