Organizational Strategy, Structure, and Process
- 5h 50m
- Charles C. Snow, Raymond E. Miles
- Stanford University Press
- 2003
Originally published in 1978, Organizational Strategy, Structure, and Process became an instant classic, as it bridged the formerly separate fields of strategic management and organizational behavior. In this Stanford Business Classics reissue, noted strategy scholar Donald Hambrick provides a new introduction that describes the book’s contribution to the field of organization studies. Miles and Snow also contribute new introductory material to update the book’s central concepts and themes.
Organizational Strategy, Structure, and Process focuses on how organizations adapt to their environments. The book introduced a theoretical framework composed of a dynamic adaptive cycle and an empirically based strategy typology showing four different types of adaptation. This framework helped to define subsequent research by other scholars on important topics such as configurational analysis, organizational fit, strategic human resource management, and multi-firm network organizations.
About the Authors
Raymond E. Miles is Professor Emeritus and former Dean of the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. He is currently writing a book on entrepreneurial strategies to be published by Stanford Business Books.
Charles C. Snow is the Mellon Foundation Professor of Business Administration at Penn State University. He teaches in the areas of strategic management and international business.
In this Book
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Introduction
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The Process of Organizational Adaptation
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Defenders
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Prospectors
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Analyzers
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Reactors
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Applications of the Model
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Management Theory Linkages to Organizational Strategy and Structure
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Mixed Strategies and Structures
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Conclusions and Extensions
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Strategy in a Single Industry: The Case of College Textbook Publishing
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Interindustry Comparisons of Strategy: Electronics and Food Processing
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Management and Strategy: The Case of the Voluntary Hospital
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Prior Theory and Research
