Strategy-Making and Organizational Evolution
A Managerial Agency Perspective

This element presents tools and frameworks that develop the organizational evolution perspective on strategy-making.

Robert Alexander Burgelman (Author), Yuliya Snihur (Author), Llewellyn Douglas William Thomas (Author)

9781108983983, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 23 March 2023

75 pages
22.7 x 15.2 x 0.6 cm, 0.15 kg

This Element presents several frameworks of strategy-making that serve to analyze organizational evolution processes within and beyond the firm. These frameworks form an integrated evolutionary ecological lens to examine the dynamics of strategy-making in organizational evolution. They highlight the role of the internal selection environment for analyzing processes and practices at various managerial levels (top, middle, and operational) within the organization. The Element also explains the role of the CEO in maintaining and updating the internal selection environment and contributing to organizational evolution, as well as making. fundamental decisions about organizational splits of the firm's business models as an ecosystem evolves.

1. Introduction
2. The internal ecology of strategy-making
3. Process models of strategy-making in organizational evolution
4. CEO strategic leadership and organizational evolution
5. Toward a theory of strategy-making and organizational evolution epilogue
References.

Subject Areas: Business strategy [KJC]