Exploring Environmental Context Within the History of Strategic Management

Peter McKiernan

International Studies of Management & Organization, 2006, vol. 36, issue 3, 7-21

Abstract: The different schools of thought that have dominated theory and practice in strategic management have treated the organization's environment differently. This paper investigates the stances of the planning, learning, positioning, and resource-based schools, tracing their heritage and key architects and seeking the reasoning behind their individual environmental treatments. Moreover, sometimes it seems that the nexus between organization and environment as explored by organization theorists has been in a parallel world and only interacted with the strategists at certain junctures in time. These interactions and the coevolution of the two approaches are examined using the impact of the changing Anglo-American context on their development. Finally, by introducing and explaining the influential issues in the environmental debate, the "context" for the collection of papers in this issue is created.

Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825360301

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