ABSTRACT

Getting strategies and structures right for changing market conditions and successfully matching strategies and structures with each other, are crucial. This volume reviews and develops the extensive literature in the areas of business policy and organizational behaviour, taking the subject further by breaking down boundaries between subject areas within management studies; by adopting a dynamic approach to organizational issues; and by synthesizing the disparate, often confusing research findings in this area into a general theoretical approach which can be assimilated by managers faced with the problems of the real world.

chapter 1|15 pages

The State of the Art

chapter 2|16 pages

Organizational Goals and Performance

chapter 3|18 pages

Open Systems and the Ecological Approach

chapter 4|12 pages

Developing a Concept of Strategy

chapter 6|15 pages

The Organizational Environment

chapter 7|19 pages

The Decision-Making Processes Involved

chapter 9|13 pages

The Development of Company Strategies

chapter 10|13 pages

Strategy, Design and the Individual

chapter 11|12 pages

The Management of Strategy and Structure

chapter 12|13 pages

The Role of Company Strategy in the Economy