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In a formal strategic planning process, we distinguish three perspectives — corporate, business, and functional. These perspectives are different both in term of the nature of the decisions they address, as well as the organizational units and managers involved in formulating and implementing the corresponding action programs generated by the strategy formation process.
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For a comprehensive review of the concepts and methodologies associated with the three strategic perspectives — corporate, business, and functional — see Amoldo C. Hax, and Nicolas S. Majluf, The Strategy Concept and Process: A Pragmatic Approach, (Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice Hall, 1991).
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Edgar E. Schein, Organizational Culture and Leadership, 2nd ed. (San Francisco, CA, 1992);
John P. Kotier, The Leadership Factor (New York, NY, The Free Press, 1988).
A related important topic to leadership is the issue of power. From this point of view, management is perceived as a political process addressing the creation, exercise, retention, and transfer of power. Power plays the central role in the implementation of strategy by influencing people’s behavior, making them to do things that otherwise would not do, and changing the course of events. For an excellent treatment of the subject, see Jeffrey Pfeffer, Managing with Power: Politics and Influence in Organizations (Boston, MA, Harvard Business School Press, 1992).
For two different typologies on corporate strategy and managerial tasks, see Michael E. Porter, “From Competitive Advantage to Corporate Strategy”, Harvard Business Review (May-June 1987, Vol. 65, No. 3) 43–59; and
Andrall E. Pearson, “Six Basics for General Managers”, Harvard Business Review (July-August 1989, Vol. 67, No. 4) 94–101.
For a treatment of the role of the value chain in obtaining competitive advantage, as well as the use of the value chain as a unit of analysis in achieving horizontal integration, see Michael E. Porter, Competitive Advantage (New York, NY, The Free Press, 1985).
Some sources for the topic of vertical integration are: John Stuckey, and David White, “When and When Not to Vertically Integrate”, Sloan Management Review (Spring 1993) 71–83;
Kathryn Rudie Harrigan, Strategic Flexibility: A Management Guide for Changing Times (Lexington, MA, Lexington Books, 1985);
Gordon Walker, “Strategic Sourcing, Vertical Integration and Transaction Costs”, Interfaces, 19 (May-June 1988) 62–73; and
David J. Teece, “Profiting from Technological Innovations: Implications for Integration, Collaboration, Licensing, and Public Policy,” David J. Teece, ed., The Competitive Challenge: Strategies for Industrial Innovations and Renewal (Cambridge, MA, Ballinger Publishing Co., 1987).
For an excellent presentation on the nature, process and management of restructuring, see Gordon Donaldson, Corporate Restructuring, Managing the Change Process from Within (Boston, MA, Harvard Business School Press, 1994).
For a discussion of ‘organizational architecture’, see David A. Nadler, Marc S. Gerstein, Robert B. Shaw, and Associates, Organizational Architecture: Designs for Changing Organizations (San Francisco, CA, Jossey-Bass, 1992).
William Taylor, “The Logic of Global Business: An Interview with ABB’s Percy Barne-vik”, Harvard Business Review (March-April 1991, Vol. 69, No. 2) 91–105.
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Hax, A.C., Majluf, N.S. (1997). Corporate Strategy: The Core Concepts. In: Hahn, D., Taylor, B. (eds) Strategische Unternehmungsplanung / Strategische Unternehmungsführung. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-41482-8_7
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