Competing Strategy Programmes

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Kuhn T.S. , The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962, Second edition, 1970.

Spender J.-C. , Industry Recipes: The Nature and Sources of Managerial Judgement, Oxford: Blackwell, 1989. See also Boisot, M., Information and Organisations: The Manager as Anthropologist, London: Fontana, 1987.

Lakatos I. , ‘Falsification and the methodology of scientific research programmes’ in Lakatos, I. , and Musgrave, A. (eds.), Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970. Lakatos, I., Proofs and Refutations: The Logic of Mathematical Discovery, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976.

Hendry J. , op. cit.

See for example, Johnson G. , Strategic Change and the Management Process, Oxford: Blackwell, 1987. Miller, D. & Friesen, P., Organizations: A Quantum View, New York: Prentice Hall, 1984. Mintzberg, H., Mintzberg on Management: Inside our Strange World of Organizations, New York: Free Press, 1989. Pettigrew, A.M., The Awakening Giant: Continuity and Change in ICI, Oxford: Blackwell, 1985. Greenwood, R. & Hinings, C.R., ‘Organisational design types, tracks and the dynamics of strategic change’, Organization Studies, 9, 1988, pp.293–316.

Lakatos I. , ‘Falsification and the methodology of scientific research programmes’ in Lakatos, I. , and Musgrave, A. (eds.), Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970, p. 155.

Pondy L.R. and Huff A.S. ‘Budget cutting in Riverside: emergent policy refraining as a process of analytic discovery and conflict minimization’ in Pondy, L.R. , Boland, M. , and Thomas, H. (eds.), Managing Ambiguity and Change, Chichester: Wiley, 1988.

Huff A.S. , ‘Politics and argument as a means of coping with ambiguity and change’ in Pondy, L.R. , Boland, M. , and Thomas, H. (eds.), Managing Ambiguity and Change, Chichester: Wiley, 1988.

Peters T.J. & Waterman J.R. , In Search of Excellence, New York: Harper & Row, 1982.

For this distinction see Argyris C. , On Organizational Learning, Oxford: Blackwell, 1992.

Lakatos I. , ‘Falsification and the methodology of scientific research programmes’ in Lakatos, I. , and Musgrave, A. (eds.), Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970, p. 157.

Feyerabend P. , Against Method, London: New Left Books, 1975.

Mintzberg H. , The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning, New York: Free Press, 1993.

Garratt R. , The Learning Organisation, London: Fontana, 1987.