Historical Evolution of Strategic Management (History of Management Thought) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 185521797X ISBN 13: 9781855217973

Publisher: Routledge, 1996

Synopsis

This collection of readings, representing the historical evolution of the subject of strategic management, covers two volumes. The first provides an introduction to the roots of modern thought and proceeds to dissect more recent contributions into four schools. The discussion on the first two of these, the Planning and Practice school and the Learning school, are contained in volume one. Discussions on the latter two, the Positioning school and the Resource-Based school, are featured in volume two. It is essential that the two volumes are read in conjunction as the study is continuous and the dissection made for purely printing purposes.

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Review:

'...a tour de force. Since receiving the volumes I have made frequent use of them both in teaching and research...The essays chose are...of central importance to the development of the strategic management field and in structuring the volumes as he has Professor McKiernan has revealed connections and relationships I had not hitherto suspected. His introduction in the volumes is an elegant and scholarly survey of the strategy literature, justifying his choice of essays and relating the works chosen to other important writing on the subject...In summary this is an excellent contribution to an important series.' Business History

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Peter McKiernan, University of St Andrews, UK and University of Warwick, UK Chester I. Barnard, H. Igor Ansoff, George A. Steiner, Sidney Schoeffler, Robert D. Buzzell, Donald F. Heaney, Pierre Wack, Arie P. de Geus, Bill McKelvey, Howard Aldrich, Charles E. Lindblom, Aaron Wildavsky, James Brian Quinn, Gerry Johnson, P.H. Grinyer, J.C. Spender, Alan Sheldon,D.J. Hickson, C.R. Hinings, C.A. Lee, R.E. Schneck, J.M. Pennings, Herbert A. Simon, John Child, Andrew M. Pettigrew, David K. Hurst, James C. Rus, Roderick E. White, Henry Mintzberg, James A. Waters, Ellen Earle Chaffee, Edward Hastings Chamberlin, Edward S. Mason, Joe S Bain, R.E. Caves, M.E. Porter, Pankaj Ghemawat, R.H. Coase, P.W.S. Andrews, Edith T. Penrose, Armen A. Alchian, H. Demsetz, David J. Teece, S.A. Lippman, R.P. Rumelt, Birger Wernerfelt, C.K. Prahalad, Richard A. Bettis, Gary Hamel, Robert M. Grant, Richard R. Nelson.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 185521797X
• ISBN 13: 9781855217973
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 940
• Editor: McKiernan Peter