Past and Future - Neostrategic Management -- Structural Dynamics of Inter Firm Knowledge Networks -- Strategic Networking in Hospitality Industry -- The Foundations of Strategic Thinking: Effectual, Strategic, and Casual Reasoning -- Continuous Innovation of Strategy as a Key to the Success of...

Strategy implementation is recognized as the source of frustrations and the black box of strategic management processes. This chapter summarizes research attempts in defining implementation problems and critical factors. Further on, based on previous empirical results, it suggests an integrated...

Strategic Thinking Capability is a complex attribute required of each top manager in a successful firm. The lack of strategic thinking capability is immediately recognized because it plays the most important role only when firms are challenged by the need to differentiate themselves from...

The process of strategic management is the core of the strategic management literature. The classical contributions of the founders of strategic management suggested that the process should be directed as deliberate and controlled as possible and every step should be rational based on data and...

In this chapter, we dissect the differences between strategic planning and strategic thinking and suggest that traditional methods of planning no longer yield the benefits as in the past. Our analysis lays this failure on the use of a causal reasoning logic that alone no longer benefits...

In this chapter we present two bridges linking entrepreneurial and strategic thinking. The first bridge links the research of individual entrepreneurial behavior and strategic thinking skills. We found that systems thinking was the strongest predictor of all three elements of individual...

For any business to grow and prosper, managers must be able to anticipate, recognise and deal with change in the internal and external environment. This paper examines the relationship between the external environment and strategy implementation process taking into account two perspectives of...