Buch, Englisch, 270 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 496 g
ISBN: 978-3-031-79013-3
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland
This scholarly work critically examines theoretical deficiencies in the field of strategy, delineating their origins and impact on research and practice. Though it could be viewed as a broadside against the field for the way that it has developed during its first 70 years, it is intended to be an effort to nudge it forward, which will require major institutional reforms not just in how it evaluates its research but also in how it combines theories pedagogically.
The author contends that the prevalent publish-or-perish paradigm, successful in the hard sciences, has failed in building a cumulative understanding in the social sciences, including economics, which relies on linkages with others to build cumulative knowledge.
This book scrutinizes the consequences of using theory with inappropriate units of analysis, emphasizing the importance of justified expectations. Geared towards researchers, it contributes to the discourse on theoretical development in the field of strategy.
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Research
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Weitere Infos & Material
1. The Theoretical Landscape.- 2. Non-compliance with Theoretical Requirements.- 3. Theoretical Analysis Simplifies Critical Thinking.- 4. Information as the Essential Element in Dynamic Analysis.- 5. Strategic Models Are Static.- 6. Theory Depends on Its Assumptions.- 7. Boundary Conditions Limit All Theory.- 8. A Systematic, Contingent Approach.- .- 9. Rational Expectations and Performance.- 10. Raising Funds.- 11. Constrained Systematic Search.- 12. Positioning.- 13. Estimating an Opportunity’s Wealth Generating Potential.- 14. Arbitraging Windows of Opportunity.- 15. Convention Theory.- 16. Forgiving Business Models.- 17. Cooperative Arrangements.- .- 18. Macroenvironmental Analysis.- 19. Prerequisites for Industry Analysis.- 20. Porter’s Model of Competitive Threats.- 21. Threat Moderators.- 22. Moderation of the Threat of Potential Entry.- 23. Moderation of the Threat of Buyers.- 24. Moderation of the Threat of Rivalry.- 25. Moderation of the Threat of Suppliers.- 26. Moderation of the Threat of Substitutes.- 27. Summarizing Industry Attractiveness.- 28. Other Industry Models.- 29. Value Chains.- 30. Firms as Resources.- 31. Assumptions of the Resource Based Theory of the Firm.- 32. SWOT Analysis.- 33. Using Constrained Systematic Search to Identify Opportunity.- 34. Focus More on Future Opportunities than Current Threats.- 35. Finding Optimal Opportunities.- .- 36. Cost Leadership.- 37. Product Differentiation.- 38. Focus.- 39. Imitation Impeding.- 40. Opportunistic.- 41. Cooperation versus Collusion.- 42. Alertness.- 43. Constrained Systematic Search.- 44. Organizational Design and Control Systems.- 45. Incentives.- 46. Span of Control.- .- 47. Transaction Cost Economics Approach to Vertical Integration.- 48. Capabilities Approach to Vertical Integration.- 49. Options Based Approach to Vertical Integration.- 50. Corporate Level Diversification.
