Title: Innovating strategy process /
Authors: Floyd, Steven W., 1950-
Publisher: BlackweLl Pub.,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Strategic planning.; Management.
Abstract: "Innovating Strategy Process presents a series of reflective essays by established and emerging scholars on the subject of innovation, considering it both as an outcome of strategy and as a process in itself." "The book has something to offer to a wide range of readers. For the reflective executive, it contains new ideas and rich case descriptions that will trigger creative thinking about how to design a more innovative strategy process. For consultants, there are many new conceptual frameworks for analyzing and designing strategy process. Academic readers will relish the diversity and creativity behind the different contributions. Collectively, the essays signal the future direction of the field."--Jacket.
Contents: Entrepreneurial orientation as a source of innovative strategy / Gregory Dess, G.T. Lumpkin -- Entrepreneurship, organizational learning, and capability building / Eric Gedajlovic, Shaker A. Zahra -- Homesteading on the endless frontier / Peter J. Lane -- The pre-history of strategy processes / Patrick Regnér -- Strategy formation effects on managerial action / J. Ignacio Canales, Joaquim Vilà -- Strategy creation as serious play / Claus Jacobs, Matt Statler -- Strategy as art / Frances Fabian -- Critical issues in learning processes / Marjorie A. Lyles, Charles Dhanaraj, Kevin Steensma -- Rethinking the strategy process / Henk W. Volberda -- Distributed agency and interactive emergence / Raghu Garud, Peter Karne -- Making strategy in the multi-business firm / Sotirios Paroutis, Andrew Pettigrew -- Explaining the process of internationalization by building bridges among existing models / Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra, Miguel Ramos -- Informal controls at work / James M. Pappas, Karen E. Flaherty -- The role of the social context for strategy making / Karolin Marx, Christoph Lechner -- Strategic consensus and constructive confrontation / Franz W. Kellermanns, Steven W. Floyd -- What really is strategic process? / Mark Kriger -- Micro strategy and strategizing / Gerry Johnson, Leif Melin, Richard Whittington -- Strategic renewal and the entrepreneurial mind / Andrew C. Corbett -- Emotional attachment and conflict in strategic decision making in new ventures / Otto Koppius, Fedde Germans, Rogier Vos -- The search process and dimensions of long-term growth / Gaurab Bhardwaj, John C. Camillus, David A. Hounshell -- Strengthening our practices as an academic field of inquiry / Anne Sigismund Huff -- On the moral necessity of strategy making / Bart Victor -- Reflections on the field of strategy / Taieb Hafsi and Howard Thomas -- Regaining relevance lost / Bala Chakravarthy -- I matter : remaining the first person in strategy research / Johan Roos.