Strategic management has evolved from the concept of strategy, with commonalities in past definitions and various approaches to operationalizing it.

The Historical Development of the Strategic Management Concept

Strategic management has evolved from an applied area to a strongly theory-based and eclectic field, with contributions from industrial organization economics, organizational economics, and resource-based views of the firm.

Theory and research in strategic management: Swings of a pendulum

Adaptation, a metaphor for strategic management, effectively captures an organization's efforts to adapt to its environment, ensuring long-term survival and growth.

Adaptation: A Promising Metaphor for Strategic Management

Strategic management is a creative activity that balances free will and determinism, challenging the mechanistic view of managers as "analysts" and promoting a dialectic between free will and determinism.

Strategic Management and Determinism

Strategic management is crucial for organizations to survive in a rapidly changing environment, but its practice is still rare and rudimentary.

Towards Better Strategic Management.

Strategic management focuses on resource allocation, team spirit, and maximizing profit through proper resource utilization and a well-defined strategy.

Strategic management

Strategic management research methods have made significant progress, but face challenges and require further improvements for robust findings.

Research Methodology in Strategic Management

Strategic management positively impacts public service performance, but more research is needed to enrich the evidence base and better understand causal complexity.

Strategic Management and Public Service Performance: The Way Ahead

Effective strategic management requires distributed wisdom, promoting common good and fostering a shared understanding of the future among organizational members.

Strategic management as distributed practical wisdom (phronesis)

This book provides a comprehensive understanding of strategic management, focusing on formulation, implementation, and control, with a focus on entrepreneurship and innovation.

Strategic Management – Formulation, Implementation and Control*

A return to personalism in strategic management research can improve theorizing, empirical research, and reconnect strategy with moral responsibility.

Strategic management and the person

Strategic management can contribute to entrepreneurship theory by focusing on the entrepreneurial work of organizations, addressing issues of new business creation, innovation, opportunity seeking, risk assumption, and top management teams.

Strategic Management's Potential Contributions to a Theory of Entrepreneurship

Strategic process research has evolved to address new areas and challenges, but more studies are needed to integrate methods and concerns across various areas.

A Review of Strategic Process Research

Strategic planning has evolved from a one-way process to a two-way process, with the former focusing on strategy development and implementation, and the latter on fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

The Fall and Rise of Strategic Planning

Guatemalan small retail businesses recognize strategic management as an integral business activity, regardless of their proactive or reactive decision-making methods.

Strategic Management in Small Retail Businesses

Strategic management in public administration combines strategy formulation, implementation, and continuous learning, helping organizations achieve goals and create public value.

Strategic Management in Public Administration

Strategic planning is a leadership tool that enhances strategic thinking, acting, and learning in organizations, but its effectiveness depends on the organization's unique circumstances and goals.

Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations, John M. Bryson, Hoboken, John Wiley and Sons, 5 édition, 2018, 513 p.

Strategic management is often loosely applied in healthcare organizations due to inconsistencies in definitions and key concepts, highlighting the need for caution in adopting systems without evidence-based efficacy and relevance.

What is strategic management?

Small firms face unique strategic management challenges due to resource limitations, goals, and development stages, compared to large organizations.

Strategic management: New ventures and small business

Corporate communication strategy serves as a functional strategy that links key strategic issues and communication plans, making the corporate communication function relevant in the strategic management process.

From strategy to corporate communication strategy: A conceptualisation

These studies suggest that strategic management has evolved into a theory-based, eclectic field essential for organizational adaptation, resource allocation, and long-term survival, though its practice and research methods still face challenges and require further development.