Joseph L. Bower and Clark G. Gilbert have collected together some of the leading experts on strategy to examine how strategy is actually made by company managers across the several levels of an organization. Is strategy a coherent plan conceived at the top by a visionary leader, or is it formed by
From resource allocation to strategy
โ Scribed by Bower, Joseph L.;Gilbert, Clark G
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 501
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Table of Contents
SECTION I: INTRODUCTION TO THE RESOURCE ALLOCATION PROCESS
1. Linking Resource Allocation to Strategy
2. Modeling the Resource Allocation Process
3. The Role of Strategy Making in Organizational Evolution
4. Anomaly-Seeking Research: Thirty Years of Theory Development
SECTION II: WHEN THE BOTTOM-UP PROCESS FAILS
5. When the Bottom-up Resource Allocation Process Fails
6. Customer Power, Strategic Investment, and the Failure of Leading Firms
7. No Exit: The Failure of Bottom-up Strategic Processes and the Role of Top-down Disinvestment
8. The Process of International Expansion: Comparing Established Firms and Entrepreneurial Start-ups
SECTION III: RESTORING THE BOTTOM-UP PROCESS
9. Restoring the Bottom-up Process of Resource Allocation
10. Strategy Making as an Iterated Process of Resource Allocation
11. Resource vs. Routine Rigidity: Toward an Interpretive Model of Response to Discontinuous Change
SECTION IV: THE NEED FOR TOP-DOWN INTERVENTION
12. Corporate Intervention in Resource Allocation
13. The Entrepreneurial M-Form: A Case Study of Strategic Integration in a Global Media Company
14. Strategic Flexibility: The Value of Corporate-level Real Options as a Response to Uncertainty in the Pursuit of Strategic Integration
15. Resource Allocation Process in Multidimensional Organizations: MNCs and Alliances
SECTION V: OUTSIDE COMMENTARIES ON THE RAP PERSPECTIVE
16. Resource Allocation, Strategy, and Organization: An Economist's Thoughts
17. Comments on the Resource Allocation Process
18. Research Complementarities: A Resource-Based View of the Resource Allocation Process Model (and Visa Versa)
19. CEO as Change Agent?
SECTION VI: CONCLUSION
20. A Revised Model of the Resource Allocation Process
โฆ Subjects
Bedrijfsbeleid;Strategisch management;Strategische planning
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