The experimental roots of revolutionary vision

MIT Sloan Management Review

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 81-84

  Barthélemy, Jérôme ^a  

^a ESSEC BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

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References (18)

1. See M.E. Porter, "What Is Strategy?" Harvard Business Review 74 (November-December 1996): 61-78;
2. G. Hamel, "Strategy as Revolution," Harvard Business Review 74 (July-August 1996): 69-82;
3. and P. Kotler, "Kotler on Marketing: How to Create, Win and Dominate Markets" (New York: Free Press, 1999).
4. R. Normann and R. Ramirez, "From Value Chain to Value Constellation: Designing Interactive Strategy," Harvard Business Review 71 (July-August 1993): 65-77.
5. H. Mintzberg and J. Waters, "Of Strategies, Deliberate and Emergent," Strategic Management Journal 6, no. 3 (1982): 257-272.
6. Ingvar Kamprad retired as group president in 1986 but continues to work for the company as a senior adviser.
7. See J.B. Quinn, "Strategic Change: Logical Incrementalism," Sloan Management Review 20 (Fall 1978): 7-21;
8. and J.B. Quinn, "Strategies for Change: Logical Incrementalism" (Homewood, Illinois: Irwin, 1980).
9. H. Mintzberg, "Grafting Strategy," Harvard Business Review 65 (July-August 1987): 66-75.
10. "Testament of a Furniture Dealer" is considered to be the IKEA bible. This booklet was first printed in 1976. Since then, it has been reprinted again and again and distributed to IKEA employees all over the world.
11. Although IKEA currently buys more products from China, which accounts for 18% of the company's purchases, than from any other country, Poland still represents 12% of IKEA's purchases.
12. I. Kamprad with B. Torekull, "Leading by Design: The IKEA Story" (New York: HarperBusiness, 1999), 50.
13. I. Kamprad with B. Torekull, Leading by Design: The IKEA Story Ibid., 21.
14. K. Kling and I. Goteman, "IKEA CEO Anders Dahlvig on International Growth and IKEA's Unique Corporate Culture and Brand Identity," Academy of Management Executive 17, no. 1 (2003): 31-37.
15. Kamprad, "Leading by Design," 35.
16. The quote from 'Testament of a Furniture Dealer" is in Kamprad, "Leading by Design," 237.
17. Kamprad, "Leading by Design," 50.
18. Ibid., Kamprad, "Leading by Design," 54.