Building Strategy from the Middle - Reconceptualizing Strategy Process

This ground-breaking book reframes the perspective taken in most strategy research in two key ways: by describing organizational renewal from a middle-level perspective and by reconceptualizing the theoretical basis for strategy process research. Part I reviews the existing literature in the strategy process, including recent literature on strategic renewal. Part II builds the theoretical basis for a middle level perspective, focusing on knowledge development, social network analysis and organizational trust. Part III moves from synthesizing existing research toward the development of a model for conducting research from a middle-level perspective.

List of contents

Introduction
Rationale and Timing of the Book
PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS
Foundations of the Strategic Management Field
The Top Management Perspective in Strategic Processes Research
Toward a Middle-Level View
Developing New Assumptions
PART TWO: NEW THEORETICAL HORIZONS: ORGANIZATIONAL KNOWLEDGE, SOCIAL NETWORKS AND TRUST
Organizational Knowledge in Strategic Renewal
The Social Context of Strategic Renewal
PART THREE: A MIDDLE-LEVEL PERSPECTIVE
A Middle-Level Model of Strategic Renewal
Research Approaches and Future Directions

Summary

Reframes the perspective taken in most strategy research in two key ways: by describing organizational renewal from a middle-level perspective and by reconceptualizing the theoretical basis for strategy process research.

Product details

• Authors: Steven W. Floyd, Bill Wooldridge
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.03.2000
• EAN: 9780761906445
• ISBN: 978-0-7619-0644-5
• No. of pages: 216
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 471 g
• Series: Foundations for Organizational Science; Foundations for Organizational Science Series; Foundations for Organizational; Foundations for Organizational Science; Foundations for Organizational
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous