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Burgelman 1983
Burgelman 1983
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ROBERT A. BURGELMAN
Stanford University
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Concept of Strategy
Based on the findings of the process study of
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(7)
Figure 1
A Model of the Interaction of Strategic Behavior,
Corporate Context, and the Concept of Strategy
AUTONOMOUS
STRATEGIC
BEHAVIOR (5)
STRATEGIC
CONTEXT
I (6)
INDUCED
STRATEGIC
BEHAVIOR
(3)
STRUCTURAL
CONTEXT
CONCEPT OF
CORPORATE
STRATEGY
(4)
(I (2)
STRONG INFLUENCE
WEAK INFLUENCE
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ICV, it was found to encompass the choices of top
management regarding the overall structural con-
figuration, the degree of formalization of positions
and relationships, the criteria for project screening,
the measures of managerial performance, and the
appointment of middle level managers with parti-
cular orientations toward entrepreneurial initiative.
Bower (1970), of course, had identified earlier the
selective nature of this important process.
Table 1
Propositions Concerning the Interaction
(8) Over time, changes in the concept of strategy are the result
of the retroactive rationalization of autonomous strategic
behavior. This, in turn, changes the basis for the further
inducement of strategic behavior.
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