Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of boxes
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Context: Laying the foundation and the underpinnings of ESM
- 1 Enterprise-wide strategic management: Underpinnings and context
- 2 Strategic management: Historical aspects and contemporary perspectives
- 3 Enterprise-wide strategic leadership: Creating value and sustainable success
- 4 The business environment: A global perspective on leading change
- 5 Market spaces: The intersection of economic and business forces
- Part II Strategic management: Formulation and implementation
- Index
- References
2 - Strategic management: Historical aspects and contemporary perspectives
from Part I - Context: Laying the foundation and the underpinnings of ESM
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of boxes
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Context: Laying the foundation and the underpinnings of ESM
- 1 Enterprise-wide strategic management: Underpinnings and context
- 2 Strategic management: Historical aspects and contemporary perspectives
- 3 Enterprise-wide strategic leadership: Creating value and sustainable success
- 4 The business environment: A global perspective on leading change
- 5 Market spaces: The intersection of economic and business forces
- Part II Strategic management: Formulation and implementation
- Index
- References
Summary
Introduction
Strategic management is a high-level management construct that is well defined and understood by most executives, strategic leaders, strategists, practitioners, and business scholars. It initially focused on strategic leadership, business policies, and long-range planning. It evolved from the poorly articulated management constructs involving business policy during the 1950s and earlier to the more formal strategic management methodologies of the 1970s. Kenneth Andrews (1916–2005) of Harvard Business School and H. Igor Ansoff (1918–2002) of Massachusetts Institute of Technology were two of the renowned pioneers of strategic management and strategic business planning (SBP). Today, strategy management is one of the most well-known and frequently used constructs in business management. Andrews defined it thus:
Corporate strategy is the pattern of decisions in a company that determines and reveals its objectives, purposes, or goals, produces the principal policies and plans for achieving those goals, and defines the range of businesses the company is to pursue, the kind of economic and human organization it is or intends to be, and the nature of the economic and non-economic contribution it intends to make to its shareholders, employees, customers, and communities. In an organization of any size or diversity, “corporate strategy” usually applies to the whole enterprise while “business strategy,” less comprehensively defines the choices of product or service and market of individual businesses within the firm. Business strategy is the determination of how a company will compete in a given business and position itself among its competitors. Corporate strategy defines the businesses in which a company will compete, preferably in a way that focuses resources to convert distinctive competence into competitive advantages.
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- Enterprise-Wide Strategic ManagementAchieving Sustainable Success through Leadership, Strategies, and Value Creation, pp. 68 - 112Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009