Building the strategically-responsive organization / edited by Howard Thomas ... [and others].

"An outgrowth of the 11th Annual International Strategic Management Society Conference, entitled 'The Greening of Strategy--Sustaining Performance,' ... held in Toronto, Canada, in October, 1991"--Ser. preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. The Greening of Business Schools / George Bain, John McArthur, Michael Spence and Henry Mintzberg -- 2. WYSIWYG: Perception, Reality and Organizational Focus: Core Identity as a Holistic Framework for the Management of Change / Jan Hall -- 3. Breaking the Frame: Strategy as Stretch and Leverage / Gary Hamel -- 4. Strategic Reference Point Theory / Avi Fiegenbaum, Stuart Hart and Dan Schendel -- 5. Corporate Strategy and Parenting Maps / Michael Goold and Andrew Campbell -- 6. Removing Intermediaries from Distribution Channels / Kim Warren -- 7. Post-Conventional Strategic Management: Criteria for the Postmodern Organization / Roland Deiser -- 8. Managing Strategic Issues and Stakeholders: How Modes of Executive Attention Enact Crisis Management / Jon A. Chilingerian -- 9. The Organizational Politics of Sustainable Development / Carolyn P. Egri and Peter J. Frost -- 10. Acquisition and Realization of Vision: Diversification through Strategic Bridging / Martin Lindell and Leif Melin.

11. Patterns of Strategic Processes: Two Change Typologies / Leif Melin and Bo Hellgren -- 12. The Greening of Strategy Process Research / Bala Chakravarthy, Yves Doz and Peter Lorange -- 13. Strategic Windows in the Structuring of Industries: Compatibility Standards and Industry Evolution / Sam Hariharan and C. K. Prahalad -- 14. Entry into Threatening Young Industries: Challenges and Pitfalls / Clayton G. Smith and Arnold C. Cooper -- 15. From Barriers to Entry to Barriers to Survival / Paul J. Verdin and Peter J. Williamson -- 16. The Greening of Strategic Alliances: The Institutionalization of Environmental Compliance / Susanne Ostlund and Rikard Larsson -- 17. Alternative Value Chain Configurations for Foreign Subsidiaries: Implications for Coordination and Control within MNCs / Anil K. Gupta and Vijay Govindarajan -- 18. Whither the Country Manager? / R. Ian Lennox -- 19. Global Localization of Japanese MNCs / Toshikazu Mitsuda -- 20. Environmental Strategies in the Triad / Francoise L. Simon.

21. Green Marketing: A US-Japan Perspective / Jane A. Barnett -- 22. Environmental Management in North America and Europe / Timothy C. Woods -- 23. Environmental Labeling and Industry Regulation / John B. Alvord -- 24. Parting Shots: Our Real Ridge / Henry Mintzberg.

The contributions in this volume provide an interesting and effective integration of strategic perspectives that exemplify many of the most important issues facing strategic management, both now and in the immediate future.

Building the Strategically-Responsive Organization is concerned with building and maintaining bridges between theory and practice. On the research side it generates and tests theories related to business and management and on the practitioner side it shows how to learn, understand and apply tested theories to practice.