Managing Strategy

Abstract

Should this chapter be in the first volume of this book, because strategy is something that organizations formulate through their structures and through the relationships between the people who belong to those organizations; or should it be in the second volume, because an organization’s strategy is necessarily influenced by, and is intended to influence, the organization’s environment? I place it in the first volume simply because the formulation and implementation of strategy is of relevance in a number of subsequent chapters, but the fact that there will be numerous references to strategy in the second volume suggests that this chapter could equally well have been located there.