Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the limitations of what the field of strategic management sees as its military foundations. Design/methodology/approach – Categorizes and synthesizes the critical historical approach of Michel Foucault and uses this to interrogate...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to re-visit and re-invigorate the oligopolistic industry perspective on multinational corporations (MNC) strategy. Design/methodology/approach Based on insights from the industrial organization tradition and strategic management, the paper brings the original...

Purpose Universalizing approaches to knowledge when combined with a dominating cultural discourse is problematic for management research paradigms as “West meets East”. This study aims to examine the case of the rapidly expanding, mainstream strategic management research in and on emerging...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop an outsourcing matrix and explains how outsourcing can be used to facilitate strategic innovation. Design/methodology/approach – The methodology used in this study is of an explanatory case study. This paper uses secondary data as well as...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the elucidation of key concepts in the new field of strategy‐as‐practice, in order to clarify the proper object of inquiry/unit of analysis. It does so by evaluating the degree of incorporation of Pierre Bourdieu's “theory of...

Purpose – Clusters and networks have become cornerstones of regional development efforts. This paper discusses the ability of regional strategic networks (RSN) to bring about cluster effects and how structural factors will affect performance of RSNs. Design/methodology/approach – The paper...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how different strategy theories complement each other with respect to understanding competitive advantage of a single firm that utilizes interfirm cooperation. Design/methodology/approach – The paper provides an analytical review of three...

Purpose – The research of industrial cluster and organizational adaptation can be traced back to early strategic management and organization theory. This paper initiates an attempt to empirically examine the relationship between a firm's involvement in an industrial cluster and its adaptive...

This article traces the evolution of strategic management and knowledge management research during the past four decades with particular emphasis on the role of knowledge in interorganizational collaborative arrangements. By outlining the main strategic management perspectives in contemporary...

The study of top management teams, which began with confidence, optimism, and promise, has been plagued by criticisms arising from mixed or weak findings and poor explanatory power of firm outcomes vis‐à‐vis other variables. This paper argues that the disputed phenomenon of top management...