RECURSIVITY: Strategy-Models are Self-Referential

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

Chapter 10 in Integrating Ethics with Strategy:Selected Papers of Alan E Singer, 2007, pp 167-186 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: AbstractThis chapter is an abridged version of “Strategy and recursivity,” Human Systems Management 22, pp. 73-85, 2003. An argument is put forward that conceptual models of strategy can themselves be depicted and described in a variety of ways, such as objects-of-choice in a metamodelling decision, or as end states of a transition process, or as patterns that replicate in managers’ minds. Discussions of the strategy models and their uses then typically invoke the same categories of meaning that are found in the general discourse on strategy itself Accordingly, recursivity and self-reference are pervasive in the theory of strategy. This, in turn, indicates a potential synthesis with ecological thinking.

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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