Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the processes of identification, emergence and filling of organizational knowledge gaps over an extended period of time, using the strategy in action perspective. Specifically, it aims to explore the nature and types of knowledge gaps, to...

Purpose – To share some key strategic paradigms for business schools with leading educators, academic administrators and executives. Design/methodology/approach – The article is normative. The normative propositions and conclusions are drawn from the research done for the author's monograph...

Purpose – The paper aims to present a framework for a systems perspective for business schools to formulate strategy, assess performance and adapt to change resulting from performance, environmental and learning feedbacks. Design/methodology/approach – The paper focuses on the balanced...

Purpose – This paper aims to focus on leadership in business schools. It seeks to advocate examining strategic leadership processes through the exploration of interactions between such multiple constituencies as the dean, faculty, university councils and advisory boards....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the prevalence and types of business school centers/institutes – their role in business school development, ability to overcome disciplinary and organizational boundaries, and encourage innovation in programs and curricula....

Purpose – The paper seeks to explain the pattern of strategic responses by the US textile and apparel industries to changes in their business environment since 1979. Design/methodology/approach – The study is based on a literature review and interviews with officers from leading US...

Purpose – Studies of strategic change are mainly characterized by a linear time view, treating time as a variable, a package of narrative events or as a path that the organization “travels” over time. The purpose of this paper is to move beyond this view providing an alternative, nonlinear...

Purpose – Political reorganizations like that of the national performance review in the USA fundamentally alter hierarchical relations within public agencies. This paper includes a set of formal exercises to examine two logical consequences of reinvention: the increased likelihood of...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to revisit Igor Ansoff's work and how it interfaces with the various schools of strategic management. Design/methodology/approach – Ansoff's work of 40 years is reviewed and related to other schools of thought in strategic management. Findings –...

Purpose – The article's purpose is to address complementary perspectives for managing uncertainty by looking at a historical example. Design/methodology/approach – This is done using a case study of the experience of ancient Greek mercenaries that fought in and out of Persia over two years...