Henry Mintzberg - Contribution To Business Strategy Theory

Contribution To Business Strategy Theory

Perhaps the most distinctive feature of Mintzberg’s research findings and writing on business strategy, is that they have often emphasized the importance of emergent strategy, which arises informally at any level in an organisation, as an alternative or a complement to deliberate strategy, which is determined consciously either by top management or with the acquiescence of top management. He has been strongly critical of the stream of strategy literature which focuses predominantly on deliberate strategy.

Mintzberg is cited in Chamberlain's Theory of Strategy as providing one of the four main foundations on which the theory is based.

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