Strategy safari : a guided tour through the wilds of strategic management / Henry Mintzberg, Bruce Ahlstrand, Joseph Lampel.
Publisher: New York : Free Press, 2005Edition: 1st Free Press trade paperback edDescription: viii, 407 p. : ill. ; 23cm001: 42257ISBN: 0743270576 (pbk.); 9780743270571 (pbk.)Subject(s): Strategic planning | Business planningDDC classification: 658.4012 MIN LOC classification: HD30.28Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Strategy Safari , the international bestseller on business strategy by leading management thinker Henry Mintzberg and his colleagues Bruce Ahlstrand and Joseph Lampel, is widely considered a classic work in the field.
No other book synthesizes the entire history and evolution of strategic management in so lively and entertaining a fashion. Since the initial publication of Strategy Safari , managers, consultants, and academics all over the world have found this book an indispensable and delightful tool--it has been translated into more than ten languages, including Chinese, Russian, and French, and has been used in top MBA programs worldwide.
Strategy Safari makes sense of a field that often seems to make no sense. Mintzberg, Ahlstrand, and Lampel pair their sweeping vision of strategy making with an authoritative catalog in which they identify ten schools of strategy that have emerged over the past four decades.
Why struggle through the vast, confusing terrain of strategy formation? With clarity and depth, Strategy Safari maps the strategic landscape and facilitates intelligent, informed strategy formation.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 375-392) and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Embarkation
- 1 "And Over Here, Ladies and Gentlemen:The Strategic Management Beast"
- 2 The Design School
- Strategy Formation as a Process of Conception
- 3 The Planning School
- Strategy Formation as a Formal Process
- 4 The Positioning School
- Strategy Formation as an Analytical Process
- 5 The Entrepreneurial School
- Strategy Formation as a Visionary Process
- 6 The Cognitive School
- Strategy Formation as a Mental Process
- 7 The Learning School
- Strategy Formation as an Emergent Process
- 8 The Power School
- Strategy Formation as a Process of Negotiation
- 9 The Cultural SchoolStrategy Formation as a Collective Process
- 10 The Environmental School
- Strategy Formation as a Reactive Process
- 11 The Configuration School
- Strategy Formation as a Process of Transformation
- 12 "Hang On, Ladies and Gentlemen,You Have Yet to Meet the Whole Beast"
- References
- Index
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