Introduction to a special section devoted to strategy formulation.

The elements of organizational structuring---which show a curious tendency to appear in five's---suggest a typology of five basic configurations: Simple Structure, Machine Bureaucracy, Professional Bureaucracy, Divisionalized Form, and Adhocracy. The elements include (1) five basic parts of the...

The literature on strategy formation is in large part theoretical but not empirical, and the usual definition of "strategy" encourages the notion that strategies, as we recognize them ex post facto, are deliberate plans conceived in advance of the making of specific decisions. By defining a...

Las lecturas que se compilan en este libro intentan hacer un aporte al desarrollo de la capacidad de gestión de las entidades públicas para conseguir sus objetivos, apoyándose en las ideas básicas provenientes de las ciencias de gestión, reagrupadas y readaptadas en el ámbito público bajo...

The progress of management science is dependent on our understanding of the manager's working processes. A review of the literature indicates that this understanding is superficial at best. Empirical study of the work of five managers (supported by those research findings that are available) led...

Las lecturas que se compilan en este libro intentan hacer un aporte al desarrollo de la capacidad de gestión de las entidades públicas para conseguir sus objetivos, apoyándose en las ideas básicas provenientes de las ciencias de gestión, reagrupadas y readaptadas en el ámbito público bajo...

Traditional western society is based on a balance between private and public interests, the economic and the social spheres of life. However, in recent years this balance has been completely upset, in favour of the private and economic. This has driven six wedges between business and society,...

Capitalism is facing a crisis. All who believe in business - from CEOs to business school professors - must recognize that they have contributed to this crisis. The problem is simple, yet profound: Everyone is captive of five half-truths that shape the way people think about business and the way...