Based on a combination of exploratory field research and executive experience, we propose that defining the "Minimum Winning Game" (WMG) is a difficult yet critical responsibility of top management to keep a high-technology venture focused and able to learn from its ongoing efforts in the face...

Based on comparative case studies of Apple Computer's strategic actions in the music and cellular telephony industries, we develop the concept of "cross-boundary disruptor" as a new type of entrepreneurial actor in inter-industry strategic dynamics. We document how the confluence of forces that...

Combining longitudinal field research and executive experience, we propose that corporate longevity depends on matching cycles of autonomous and induced strategy processes to different forms of strategic dynamics, and that the role of alert strategic leadership is to appropriately balance the...

This paper provides an overview of the key themes, conceptual frameworks and related tools that are used to examine cases and industry notes in the course "Strategy and Action in the Information Processing Industry" an applied industry analysis course that we have co-taught at the Stanford...

This paper proposes that strategy-making processes can be fruitfully integrated with evolutionary organization theory. An evolutionary research lens comprising three interrelated conceptual frameworks helps identify and analyze the role of strategy making in firm evolution at three levels of...