In this and the next blog entries (Entries 26 – 39) we will show some summary tables (Tables 1 – 14) that include a brief description of those contributions considered essential to reach a good understanding of the strategy formation process:
– Entry 26 – Table 1: Design School (Mintzberg, 1990).
– Entry 27 – Table 2: Traditional strategic planning (Planning School (Mintzberg, 1990)).
– Entry 28 – Table 3: Traditional strategic planning evolved to respond to unexpected events.
– Entry 29 – Table 4: Current strategic planning in complex and dynamic environments (Grant, 2003).
– Entry 30 – Table 5: Positioning School (Mintzberg, 1990).
– Entry 31 – Table 6: New voices in the strategic process (Hamel, 1996).
– Entry 32 – Table 7: Learning School (Mintzberg, 1990).
– Entry 33 – Table 8: Entrepreneurial School (Mintzberg, 1990).
– Entry 34 – Table 9: Environmental School (Mintzberg, 1990) – Contingency Perspective.
– Entry 35 – Table 10: Configuration School (Mintzberg, 1990).
– Entry 36 – Table 11: Need for reconciliation between the deliberate and emergent approaches.
– Entry 37 – Table 12: Dynamic model of the strategic process (Bueno, Casani and Lizcano, 1999a and 1999b).
– Entry 38 – Table 13: Power School – Micro power branch (Mintzberg, 1990).
– Entry 39 – Table 14: Cultural School (Mintzberg, 1990).
Finally, entries 40 and 41 describe the “Integrative model of the strategic process”, developed by Roch (2016 and 2020). The book “The strategic process of the firm: Theory and cases” (Roch, 2024) includes a detailed description of this model.
This blog post includes the summary table of the Design School (Mintzberg, 1990).
If you are interested in going deeper into the strategic process, allow me to recommend you: - Book: "The strategic process of the firm: Theory and cases" (Roch, 2024). - Courses and consulting program on the strategic process.
