Exploring the house built on sand!

Journal of Management Development

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 38-50

  French, Steven ^a  

^a SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Critical management; Epistemology; Self adjusting control systems; Strategic management

Indexed keywords

EID: 59949102932     PISSN: 02621711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02621710910923854     Document Type: Review

References (46)

1. Ansoff H.I. (1991), "Critique of Henry Mintzberg's The Design School: Reconsidering the Basic Premises of Strategic Management", Strategic Management Journal, Vol. 12, No. 6, pp. 449-61.
2. Barney J.B. (1986), "Strategic factor markets: Expectations, luck and business strategy", Management Science, Vol. 32, No. 10, pp. 1231-41.
3. Barney J.B. (1991), "Firm resources and sustained competitive advantage", Journal of Management, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 99-120.
4. Brech E.L.F. (1957), Organisation: The Framework of Management, Longmans, London.
5. Burns T., Stalker G.M. (1961), The Management of Innovation, Tavistock, London.
6. Chaffee E.E. (1985), "Three models of strategy", The Academy of Management Review, Vol. 10, No. January, pp. 89-98.
7. Conner K.R., Prahalad C.K. (1996), "A resource-based theory of the firm: Knowledge versus opportunism", Organization Science, Vol. 7, No. 5, pp. 477-501.
8. Donaldson L. (1995), Contingency Theory, Dartmouth, Aldershot.
9. Feurer R., Chaharbaghi K. (1997), "Strategy development; past, present and future", Training for Quality, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 58-70.
10. Fitzgerald T. (1990), "Economics: Broad and narrow", Australian Society, Vol. 9, No. 12, December, pp. 21-4.
11. Foss N.J. (1999), "Research in the strategic theory of the firm: isolationism and integrationalism", Journal of Management Studies, Vol. 36, No. 6, pp. 725-55.
12. French S. (2009a), "Critiquing the language of strategic management", Journal of Management Development, Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 6-17.
13. French S. (2009a), "Cogito ergo sum: Exploring epistemological options for strategic management", Journal of Management Development, Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 18-37.
14. French S. (2009c), "Re-thinking the foundations of the strategic business process", Journal of Management Development, Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 51-76.
15. Harfield T. (1998), "Strategic management and Michael Porter: A Postmodern reading", available at: www.mngt.waikato.ac.nz/depts/sml/ journal/special/harfield.htm, The Electronic Journal of Radical Organisation Theory, Vol. 4, No. 1
16. Hofer C.W. (1975), "Toward a contingency theory of business strategy", Academy of Management Journal, Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 784-810.
17. Jacobson R. (1992), "The Austrian School of Strategy", The Academy of Management Review, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 782-806.
18. Kippenberger T. (1998), "How strategy is formed? Ten schools of thought", The Antidote, Vol. 3, No. 6, pp. 11-14.
19. Kouzmin A. (2007) Personal communication, 27 November.
20. Kouzmin A., Dixon J., Korac-Kakabadse N. (2001), "From self-referential economics to managerialism and the economic holocaust of down-sizing/re-engineering: A global reckoning begins?", in Thorne, K. and Turner, G. (Eds), Global Business Regulation: Some Research Perspectives, Prentice-Hall, Frenchs Forest, pp. 1-37.
21. Latham M. (1998), Civilizing Global Capital: New Thinking for Australian Labor, Allen and Unwin, Sydney.
22. Lawrence P.R., Lorsch J.W. (1967), Organization and Environment: Managing Differentiation and Integration, Harvard University Press, Boston, MA.
23. McKiernan P. (1996), Historical Evolution of Strategic Management, Dartmouth, Aldershot.
24. Marglin S.A. (1971) "What do bosses do?: The origins and functions of hierarchy in capitalist production", Discussion Paper No. 222, Harvard Institute of Economic Research, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.
25. Mintzberg H. (1991), "Research notes and communications, learning 1, planning 0, reply to Igor Ansoff", Strategic Management Journal, Vol. 12, No. 6, pp. 463-6.
26. Mintzberg H., Ahlstrand B., Lampel J. (1998), Strategy Safari: A Guided Tour through the Wilds of Strategic Management, Prentice-Hall, New York, NY.
27. Mintzberg H., Quinn J.B., Voyer J. (1995), The Strategy Process, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
28. Nelson R.R. (1991), Why do firms differ and how does it matter?, Strategic Management Journal, Vol. 12, No. Winter, pp. 61-74.
29. Parker M. (2002), Against Management: Organization in the Age of Managerialism, Polity Press, Cambridge.
30. Peteraf M.A. (1993), "The cornerstones of competitive advantage: A resource-based view", Strategic Management Journal, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 179-91.
31. Phelan S.E., Lewin P. (2000), Arriving at a strategic theory of the firm, International Journal of Management Reviews, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 305-23.
32. Porter M.E. (1980), Competitive Strategy, Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors, Free Press, New York, NY.
33. Porter M.E. (1985), Competitive Advantage, Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance, Free Press, New York, NY.
34. Porter M.E. (1991), "Toward a dynamic theory of strategy", Strategic Management Journal, Vol. 12, No. S2, pp. 95-117.
35. Porter M.E. (1997), "Response to letters to the editor", Harvard Business Review, No. March-April, pp. 162-3.
36. Prahalad C.K., Hamel G. (1990), "The core competence of the corporation", Harvard Business Review, Vol. 68, No. 3, pp. 79-91.
37. Rindova V.P., Fombrun C.J. (1999), "Constructing competitive advantage: The role of firm-constituent interactions", Strategic Management Journal, Vol. 20, No. 8, pp. 691-710.
38. Rumelt R.P. (1991), "How much does industry matter?", Strategic Management Journal, Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 167-85.
39. Teece D.J., Pisano G., Shuen A. (1997), "Dynamic capabilities and strategic management", Strategic Management Journal, Vol. 18, No. 7, pp. 509-33.
40. Thompson J.D. (1967), Organizations in Action: Social Science Bases of Administrative Theory, McGraw-Hill, New York, NY.
41. Wernerfelt B. (1984), "A resource-based view of the firm", Strategic Management Journal, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 171-80.
42. Wernerfelt B. (1995), "The resource-based view of the firm: Ten years after", Strategic Management Journal, Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 171-4.
43. Whittington R. (1993), What Is Strategy and Does It Matter?, Routledge, London.
44. Williamson O.A. (1975), Markets and Hierarchies: Analysis and Implications, Free Press, New York, NY.
45. Woodward J. (1958), Management and Technology, Problems of Progress in Industry, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London.
46. Woodward J. (1965), Industrial Organization: Theory and Practice, Oxford University Press, London.