Processual‚ Rational‚ Fuzzy‚ Evolutionary 1. Processual approach: Strategy is produced in an incremental fashion‚ as a ’pattern in a stream of decisions’. Fuzzy approach: Companies sometimes adopt an incremental approach to change. What’s different between these two approach? The Processual approach is really talking about strategy emerging from the many different day-to-day decisions taken by the staff. It’s incremental‚ in that it is occurring by being added to with each decision taken. Each
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Scand..L Mgmt‚ Vol. 13‚ No. 4‚ pp. 337-348‚ 1997 © 1997 published by Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved Printed in Great Britain. 0956-5221/97 $17.00 + 0.00 Pergamon PII: S0956-5221(97)00020-1 WHAT IS A PROCESSUAL ANALYSIS. ’? Andrew M. Pettigrew Warwick Business School‚ Warwick University‚ U.K. (First received May 1997; accepted May 1997) INTRODUCTION This essay offers a personal and therefore partial view of the nature and conduct of process research in organisational
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information ‘New Archaeology’ (processual archaeology) - the new archaeology was facilitated by changes in technology – the introduction of radiocarbon dating - Willard libby 1949…now evidence from side could be directly dated..no long needed to construct complex chrologies - while new archaeology is seen as starting with lewis binford in the early 1960’s‚ a number of folks were already raising same issues 13th of Feb Highlights of Processual Archaeology -instead of focusing
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Ximena Gallego ANTH 350- Historical Archaeology Professor J. Moore- SP ‘13 Saitta Paper The Archeology of Collective Action When Dean Saitta wrote The Archeology of Collective Action: The American Experience in Archaeological Perspective‚ he aimed to address major issues that dealt with the study of archaeology. He focuses on how much archaeology has advanced and has clarified the concerns involving race‚ gender and class‚ which are all manifested into collective action. It is these actions
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1. What are the goals of archaeology? The goals of archaeology are to find historical things and find out events that have happened. 2. What is culture? Culture is the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively. 3. How is the archaeological record used to date artifacts? Some archaeologist use carbon rating. 4. Describe the process of archaeological research. The process of archaeological research would be going through land research‚ knowing pinpoints and
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Johnson‚ Scholes & Whittington – Exploring Strategy‚ text and cases Chapter 1 – Introducing Strategy Defining strategy - Strategy is about the key issues for the future of organizations‚ or in other words‚ the long term direction for an organization. The description of strategy in the book has two advantages: 1. It can include deliberate‚ logical strategy and incremental‚ emergent patterns of strategy; 2. It can lay the focus on differences and competition as well as on recognizing the
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Analysis of STT’s Strategic Capability There are a lot of organisations working in a lot of markets. But there are multiple organisations in one market‚ so that there is a lot of competition. To help an organisation stand out from this competition‚ it needs strategic capabilities and competitive advantages. For one‚ it is important to know that not one organisation is exactly the same as another organisation. They all have different capabilities. Because these different capabilities‚ it is difficult
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Richard Whittington in his book entitled “What is strategy – and does it matter?” presents four generic approaches to strategy formulation‚ development and implementation in organisation. These perspectives on strategy are [2]: The Classical approach – the oldest and still most influential view on strategy relying on rational and careful planning to maximise organisation profit. Classicists theorist assumes that business environment and organisation behaviour are predictable‚ planning are essential
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98-101. Johnson‚ G.‚ Scholes‚ K. and Whittington‚ R. (2012) Fundamentals of strategy‚ Harlow: Pearson Education. Mintzberg‚ H. (1987) The strategy concept: Five P’s for strategy‚ California Management Review‚ 30(1): 11-24. Mintzberg‚ H.‚ et al. (1998) Strategy safari: A guided tour through the wilds of strategic management‚ New York: The Free Press. Mintzberg‚ H Porter‚ M. (1996) What is strategy? Harvard Business Review‚ November-December‚ 61-78. Whittington‚ R. (2001) What is Strategy- and does
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