Strategy Safari: A Guided Tour Through The Wilds of Strategic Management by Henry Mintzberg, Bruce Ahlstrand and Joseph Lampel is an overview of the full field of academic and business studies of strategy, based on a previous lecture series by Mintzberg.
In addition to an overview of existing meta-theories of strategy, including the "five Ps" (strategy as plan, ploy, pattern, perspective, position), the authors find ten separate schools of strategy, which are:
The underlying thesis of the book is that the 'strategy beast' is not any one of these, but that each school represents a partial picture of what strategy is. Academics may find it convenient to examine parts of strategy, assert the authors, but managers need to be able to work with the entire, living beast.
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