There is a great deal of practice, discussion, and writing about strategy, but little investigation of the processes by which strategies actually form in organizations. This book shares the results of Henry Mintzberg's investigation into this, conducted over several decades, using case studies...

In this article, we review briefly the evolution of the field in terms of ten "schools." We ask whether these perspectives represent fundamentally different processes of strategy making or different parts of the same process. In both cases, our answer is yes. We seek to show how some recent work...