Summaries of Major Readings in Strategy

C. Bartlett and S. Ghoshal
Changing the Role of Top Management: Beyond Strategy to Purpose
Harvard Business Review, November-December (1994), pp. 79-88.
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C. Bartlett and S. Ghoshal
Changing the Role of Top Management: Beyond Structure to Processes
Harvard Business Review, January-February (1995), pp. 86-96.
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C. Bartlett and S. Ghoshal
Changing the Role of Top Management: Beyond Systems to People
Harvard Business Review, May-June (1995), pp. 132-142.
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J. Barney
Firm Resources and Sustained Competitive Advantage
Journal of Management, 17 (1991), pp. 99-120.
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C. Bartlett and S. Ghoshal
Managing Across Borders: New Organisational Responses
Sloan Management Review, Fall (1987), pp. 43-53.
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C. Bartlett and S. Ghoshal
Managing Across Borders: New Strategic Requirements
Sloan Management Review, Summer (1987), pp. 7-17.
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P. Barwise, P. Marsh and R. Wensley
Must Finance and Strategy Clash?
Harvard Business Review, 67, September-October (1989), pp. 85-90.
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A. Brandenburger and B. Nalebuff
The Right Game: Use Game Theory to Shape Strategy
Harvard Business Review, 72, July-August (1995), pp. 57-71.
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G. Carroll
A Sociological View on Why Firms Differ
Strategic Management Journal, 14 (1993), pp. 237-249.
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D. Collis and C. Montgomery
Competing on Resources: Strategy in the 1990s
Harvard Business Review, July-August (1994), pp. 118-128.
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E. Davis and J. Kay
Assessing Corporate Performance
Business Strategy Review, Summer (1990), pp. 1-16.
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G. Day and D. Montgomery
Diagnosing the Experience Curve
Journal of Marketing, 47, Spring (1983), pp. 44-58.
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A. Dixit and B. Nalebuff
Making Strategies Credible
in R. Zeckhauser (ed), Strategy and Choice, Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, pp. 161-184.
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G. Eppen, W. Hanson and R. Martin
Bundling - New Products, New Markets, Low Risk
Sloan Management Review, 32, Summer (1991), pp. 7-14.
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P. Ghemawat
Building Strategy on the Experience Curve
Harvard Business Review, 63, March-April (1985), pp. 143-149.
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P. Ghemawat
Sustainable Advantage
Harvard Business Review, 64, September-October (1986), pp. 53-58.
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S. Ghoshal
Global Strategy: An Organising Framework
Strategic Management Journal, 8 (1987), pp. 425-440.
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G. Hamel and C. Prahalad
Do You Really Have a Global Strategy?
Harvard Business Review, July-August (1985), pp. 139-148.
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A. Hax and N. Majluf
The Industry Attractiveness-Business Strength Matrix in Strategic Planning
Interfaces, 13, April (1983), pp. 54-76.
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A. Hax and N. Majluf
The Use of the Growth Share Matrix in Strategic Planning
Interfaces, 13, February (1983), pp. 46-65.
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R. Hayes and K. Clark
Why Some Factories are More Productive than Others
Harvard Business Review, September-October (1986), pp. ##
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B. Henderson
The Origins of Strategy
Harvard Business Review, 67 (1989), pp. 139-143.
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D. Hofstadter
Metamagical Themas
Scientific American, 248, May (1983), pp. 14-20.
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M. Jensen
Eclipse of the Public Corporation
Harvard Business Review, 67, September-October (1989), pp. 61-74.
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G. Johnson
Managing Strategic Change - Strategy, Culture and Action
Long Range Planning, 25 (1992), pp. 28-36.
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R. Johnston and P. Lawrence
Beyond vertical integration - the rise of the value-adding partnership
Harvard Business Review, July-August (1988), pp. 94-101.
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B. Kogut
Designing Global Strategies: Comparative and Competitive Value-Added Chains
Sloan Management Review, 26, Summer (1985), pp. 15-28.
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B. Kogut
Designing Global Strategies: Profiting from Operational Flexibility
Sloan Management Review, 27, Fall (1985), pp. 27-38.
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C. Lengnick-Hall
Innovation and Competitive Advantage: What We Know and What We Need to Learn
Journal of Management, 18 (1992), pp. 399-429.
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B. Levitt and J. March
Organisational Learning
Annual Review of Sociology, 14 (1988), pp. 319-340.
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J. McGee and H. Thomas
Strategic Groups: Theory, Research and Taxonomy
Strategic Management Journal, 7, May-June (1986), pp. 141-160.
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H. Mintzberg
The Fall and Rise of Strategic Planning
Harvard Business Review, 72, January-February (1994), pp. 107-114.
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H. Mintzberg
Five Ps for Strategy
California Management Review, 30 (1987), pp. 11-24.
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I. Nonaka
The Knowledge-Creating Company
Harvard Business Review, 69, November-December (1991), pp. 96-104.
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R. Norman and R. Ramirez
From Value Chain to Value Constellation: Designing Interactive Strategy
Harvard Business Review, 71, July-August (1993), pp. 65-77.
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K. Ohmae
Managing in a Borderless World
Harvard Business Review, 67, May-June (1989), pp. 152-161.
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M. Porter
The Value Chain and Competitive Advantage
Chapter 2 in Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance, New York: Free Press (1985), pp. 33-61.
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C. Prahlad and R. Bettis
The Dominant Logic: A New Linkage between Diversity and Performance
Strategic Management Journal, 7 (1986), pp. 485-501
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M. Robert
Market Fragmentation Versus Market Segmentation
Journal of Business Strategy, 13, September-October (1992), pp. 48-53.
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P. Romer
Ideas and things
Supplement to The Economist: 150 Economist Years, 11 September (1993), pp. 64-68.
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P. Senge
Natures Templates: Identifying Patterns that Control Events
Chapter 6 in The Fifth Discipline, New York: Doubleday (1990), pp. 93-113.
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H. Simon
Making Management Decisions: The Role of Intuition and Emotion
Academy of Management Executive, February (1987), pp. 57-64.
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G. jr. Stalk
Time - The next Source of Competitive Advantage
Harvard Business Review, 66, July-August (1988), pp. 41-51.
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R. Stata
Organizational Learning - The Key to Management Innovation
Sloan Management Review, 30, Spring (1989), pp. 63-73.
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J. Stuckey and D. White
When and When Not to Vertically Integrate
Sloan Management Review, 34, Spring (1993), pp. 71-83.
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P. Varadarajan and T. Clark
Delineating the Scope of Corporate, Business and Marketing Strategy
Journal of Business Research, 31 (1994), pp. 93-105.
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P. Verdin and P. Williamson
Successful Strategy: Stargazing or Self-Examination
European Management Journal, 12, 10, (1994), pp. 10-18.
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