Bibliography+-+Strategy+Process

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Asterisks (*) identify core readings. Pluses (+) designate articles that emerged, at least in part, from an author’s doctoral research. =Origins of the content / process divide and basics of managerial decision making= =The emergent vs. deliberate debate=
 * 1) Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. 1962. //Strategy and Structure: Chapters in the History of the Industrial Enterprise.// MIT Press, Chapters 1, 6-8.
 * 2) Kenneth A. Andrews. 1971. //The Concept of Corporate Strategy.// Dow Jones-Irwin, Chapters 1-3.
 * 3) * Herbert A. Simon. 1957. //Administrative Behavior: A Study of Decision-making Processes.// Free Press, Chapters 1, 5.
 * 4) Richard M. Cyert and James G. March. 1963. //A Behavioral Theory of the Firm.// Prentice-Hall, selections, especially Chapter 6.
 * 1) Henry Mintzberg. 1978. “Patterns in Strategy Formulation.” //Management Science// (24), 934-948.
 * 2) * Henry Mintzberg. 1990. “The Design School: Reconsidering the Basic Premise of Strategic Management.” //Strategic Management Journal// (11), 171-195.
 * 3) * H. Igor Ansoff. 1991. “Critique of H. Mintzberg's ‘The Design School: Reconsidering the Basic Premise of Strategic Management.’” //Strategic Management Journal// (12), 449-466.
 * 4) Henry Mintzberg. 1991. “Learning 1, Planning 0: Reply to Igor Ansoff.” //Strategic Management Journal// (12), 463-466.
 * 5) Richard Pascale. 1984. “Perspectives on Strategy: The Real Story Behind Honda’s Success.” //California Management Review// (26: 3), 47-72.
 * 6) * Graham T. Allison. 1969. “Conceptual Models and the Cuban Missile Crisis.” //American Political Science Review// (43), 689-718.
 * 7) + Nicolaj Siggelkow. 2002. “Evolution Toward Fit.” //Administrative Science Quarterly// (47), 125-159.

=The resource allocation process school of thought=
 * 1) * Joseph L. Bower. 1970. //Managing the Resource Allocation Process.// Harvard Business School Press, Chapters 1-3.
 * 2) Robert A. Burgelman. 1991. “Intraorganizational Ecology of Strategy Making and Organizational Adaptation: Theory and Field Research.” //Organizational Science// (2): 239-262.
 * 3) * Robert A. Burgelman. 1994. “Fading Memories: A Process Theory of Strategic Business Exit in Dynamic Environments.” //Administrative Science Quarterly// (39), 24-56.
 * 4) Robert Burgelman. 2002. //Strategy is Destiny: How Strategy Making Shapes a Company’s Future.// Free Press.
 * 5) Joseph L. Bower and Clark G. Gilbert. 2005. “A Revised Model of the Resource Allocation Process.” Chapter 20 in //From Resource Allocation to Strategy.// Oxford University Press, 439-455.
 * 6) + Tomo Noda and Joseph L. Bower. 1996. “Strategy Making as Integrated Processes of Resource Allocation.” //Strategic Management Journal// (17: special issue), 159-192.

=Personal, cognitive, and political influences on strategic decision making=
 * 1) Donald C. Hambrick and Phyllis A. Mason. 1984. “Upper Echelons: The Organization as a Reflection of its Top Managers.” //Academy of Management Review// (9), 193-206.
 * 2) Donald C. Hambrick. 2005. “Upper Echelons Theory: Origins, Twists and Turns, and Lessons Learned.” Chapter 6 in Ken G. Smith and Michael A. Hitt (eds.), //Great Minds in Management: The Process of Theory Development//, Oxford University Press, 109-127.
 * 3) William Ocasio. 1997. “Towards an Attention-Based View of the Firm.” //Strategic Management Journal// (18: special issue), 187-206.
 * 4) + Mary Tripsas and Giovanni Gavetti. 2000. “Capabilities, Cognition and Inertia: Evidence from Digital Imaging.” //Strategic Management Journal// (21), 1147-1161.
 * 5) Kathleen M. Eisenhardt and L.J. Bourgeois. 1988. “Politics of Strategic Decision Marking in High-velocity Environments: Toward a Midrange Theory.” //Academy of Management Journal// (31), 737-770.
 * 6) + Gabriel Szulanski. 1996. “Exploring Internal Stickiness: Impediments to the Transfer of Best Practice Within the Firm.” //Strategic Management Journal// (17: special issue), 27-43.

=The process of process research=
 * 1) * Kathleen M. Eisenhardt. 1989. “Building Theories from Case Study Research.” //Academy of Management Review// (14), 532-550.
 * 2) Andrew M. Pettigrew. 1992. “The Character and Significance of Strategy Process Research.” //Strategic Management Journal// (13, winter special issue), 5-16.
 * 3) Andrew H. van de Ven. 1992. “Suggestions for Studying Strategy Process: A Research Note.” //Strategic Management Journal// (13, summer special issue), 169-188.
 * 4) Gabriel Szulanski, Joseph Porac, and Yves Doz. 2005. “The Challenge of Strategy Process Research,” //Advances in Strategic Management// (22), xiii-xxxv.