SYNERGIES: Competitiveness as “Hyper-Strategy”

Alan E Singer
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Alan E Singer: University of Canterbury, New Zealand

Chapter 4 in Integrating Ethics with Strategy:Selected Papers of Alan E Singer, 2007, pp 57-75 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: AbstractParts of this chapter are based upon (i) “Competitiveness as hyper-strategy,” Human Systems Management14, pp. 163-178, 1995 and (ii) Strategy as Rationality,Ashgate, 1996. The first part briefly discusses the concept of synergy, as it applies to business strategy. It proceeds to a consideration of competition and cooperation amongst diverse types of productive entity. The strategy-as-moral philosophy correspondence framework (Chapter 2) is then expanded and adapted to incorporate the abstract notion of synergies amongst distinctive forms of rationality, or hyper-rationality (in the sociological sense first used by Ritzer and LeMoyne, 1991). The concept can be generalised to the full rationality-set, where it yields a general and integrative re-conceptualisation of the competitiveness of any strategic entity.

Keywords: Business Ethics; Strategy; Management Science; Corporate Social Responsibility; Poverty; Health; Decision Making; Corporate Governance; Global Business (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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