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Richard Whittington is an academic in the area of Corporate Strategy. Currently, he is a Professor of Strategic Management at the Saïd Business School of the University of Oxford, [1] and a Fellow of New College, Oxford. Whittington has been influential in the Strategy-as-Practice approach, a more sociological and less managerial approach to ...
Strategic Organization is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers the fields of strategic management and organization studies.Its editors-in-chief are Oliver Alexy (Technical University of Munich), Luca Berchicci (Rotterdam School of Management), Charlotte Cloutier (HEC Montréal), Glen W.S. Dowell (Cornell University), Paula Jarzabkowski (Bayes Business School & University of ...
ISBN 9781135186357. Retrieved 2018-06-17. Strategic management is the process of assessing the corporation and its environment in order to meet the firm's long-term objectives of adapting and adjusting to its environment through manipulation of opportunities and reduction of threats.A corporation-oriented view.
The resource-based view (RBV), often referred to as the "resource-based view of the firm", [1] is a managerial framework used to determine the strategic resources a firm can exploit to achieve sustainable competitive advantage. Barney's 1991 article "Firm Resources and Sustained Competitive Advantage" is widely cited as a pivotal work in the ...
Organizational adaptation (sometimes referred to as strategic fit and organizational congruence) is a concept in organization theory and strategic management that is used to describe the relationship between an organization and its environment. The conceptual roots of organizational adaptation borrows ideas from organizational ecology ...
Complexity theory and organizations. Complexity theory and organizations, also called complexity strategy or complex adaptive organizations, is the use of the study of complexity systems in the field of strategic management and organizational studies. [1][2][3][4] It draws from research in the natural sciences that examines uncertainty and non ...
Numerous articles and books written on stakeholder theory generally identify Freeman as the "father of stakeholder theory". [14] Freeman's Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach (1984) is widely cited in the field as being the foundation of stakeholder theory, [15] although Freeman himself refers to several bodies of literature used in the development of his approach, including strategic ...
Strategy and uncertainty. Strategic planning and uncertainty intertwine in a realistic framework where companies and organizations are bounded to develop and compete in a world dominated by complexity, ambiguity, and uncertainty in which unpredictable, unstoppable and, sometimes, meaningless circumstances may have a direct impact on the ...