The Antidote Emerald Article: How is strategy formed? Ten schools of thought Kippenberger‚ T Article information: To cite this document: Kippenberger‚ T‚ (1998)‚"How is strategy formed? Ten schools of thought"‚ The Antidote‚ Vol. 3 Iss: 6 pp. 11 – 14 Permanent link to this document http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000006623 Downloaded on: 14-08-2012 Citations: This document has been cited by 2 other documents To copy this document: permissions@emeraldinsight.com This document has
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A critical summary of the article “Patterns in strategy formation” written by Henry Mintzberg‚ published in Journal Management Science Vol. 24‚ No. 9‚ (1978) A short overview The paper‚”Patterns in strategy formation”‚ outlines a new kind of description to the much misunderstood process of strategy formation in organizations. After giving a short summary of the theme‚ the author‚ Henry Mintzberg‚ describes the term “strategy” and shows how the definition leads to the choice of a research methodology
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Evaluate the contribution of Mintzberg’s concept of 5 Ps for strategic thinking‚ illustrating your answer with appropriate examples. Mintzberg (1989) has suggested the 10 different schools of thought for strategy. In the 10 schools of thoughts‚ they are categorized into two major approaches to strategy; one is the Prescriptive approach while another is the Descriptive approach. The Prescriptive approach focusses on the formulation of strategy in intended manner while the Descriptive approach views
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(6th ed.). Frenchs Forest‚ NSW: Pearson Education This source explains the managerial roles and their importance according to Henry Mintzberg. The source gives detailed explanations of the various roles‚ and its examples. An evaluation on why managers at different levels in the organization should take up various roles. I find this source useful because Mintzberg concluded that their actual work activities involved interacting with others‚ with the organization itself and with the context outside
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roles‚ and decisional roles. According to Mintzberg (1980:57)‚ managers at all levels perform ten interrelated roles. These roles fall into three groupings‚ namely: • Interpersonal roles – which derive from the manager ’s status and authority. • Informational roles – which derive from the interpersonal roles and the access they provide to information; and • Decisional roles – which derive from the managers authority and information. In Mintzberg (1980:182) it can be learnt that although managers
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Which of these writers – Taylor or Mintzberg – best describes how he/she manages? Mintzberg states that all managers deal with similar activities‚ namely‚ dealing with people‚ gathering and sharing information and attempting to look above the chaos to the future. The manager that I have chosen for this particular question is Richard Branson. I believe his management style is very unique‚ yet similar to what Mintzberg was trying to describe. One of the first Mintzbergs claims is that a manager a figurehead
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Knowledge gained through past experience can and should be used as a foundation for future success”. The management theories of Fayol‚ Mintzberg and Weber are still relevant and important to modern day managers‚ as they are a basis for
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Crafting Strategy –by Henry Mintzberg Henry Mintzberg recognizes the combination of reason-rational control‚ the systematic analysis of competitors and markets‚ company strengths and weaknesses as producing clear-explicit‚ full-blown strategies. He compares the process of crafting a strategy to a porter at work. Thus‚ the managers represent craftsmen and strategy is their clay. However‚ like the porter‚ the managers sit between
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tompeters! Strategic Planning‚ R.I.P. TOM PETERS enry Mintzberg has killed strategic planning. It’s not that the prolific McGill University professor has anything new to say in his justreleased book‚ The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning. And it’s not as if our mindless love affair with planning in the 1960s and 1970s didn’t effectively end a dozen years ago (when then-neophyte GE chairman Jack Welch killed his corporation’s hyper-formalized planning system‚ and most of the planners
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ways in which the organization promotes their own well-being‚ through control or cooperation. Learning: “Of all the descriptive schools‚ the learning school grew into a veritable wave and challenged the always dominant prescriptive schools” (Mintzberg et al‚ 1998). According to this school‚ strategies emerge as people come to learn about a situation as well as their organization’s capability of dealing with it. This SoT began with the publication of “The Science of Muddling Through” (Lindblom
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