List Of Recommended Articles

This list has no pretensions towards being a complete bibliography. It contains articles I consider relevant and readable, and focuses on areas, like strategic processes and change, where many text books are weak. It mostly excludes papers that you can find in collections like de Wit and Meyer and Mintzberg, Quinn and Ghoshal (see the book list).

Last updated on 6 September 2000 (HBR = Harvard Business Review, LRP = Long Range Planning, BJM = British Journal of Management, SMR = Sloan Management Review)

The Nature of Strategy and Strategic Thinking

Cravens, Greenley, Piercy and Slater (1998). ‘Mapping the path to market leadership: Effectively combining various dimensions of strategy into an integrated process of strategic analysis and action maps the path to market leadership’, Marketing Management v7(3) p. 28-39
Drucker (1994). ‘The Theory of the Business’, HBR, Sep-Oct 1994
Hamel (1996). ‘Strategy as Revolution’, HBR, Jul-Aug 1996, p69-82
Hamel and Prahalad (1994). ‘Competing for the Future’, HBR, July-Aug, p122-128
Mintzberg (1994). ‘Rounding Out the Manager’s Job’, SMR, Fall 1994, p11-26

Business Ethics and Socially and Environmentally Responsible Strategy

Baron (1995). 'The Nonmarket Strategy System', SMR, Fall 1995, p73-85
Burke and Logsdon (1996). ‘How Corporate Social Responsibility Pays Off’, LRP, V29 No 4, p495-502
Kanter (1999). 'From Spare Change to Real Change - The Social sector as Beta Site for Business Innovation', HBR, May-June 1999, p 123-132
Sharma and Vredenburg (1998). Proactive Corporate Environmental Strategy and the Development of Competitively Valuable Organizational Capabilities, SMJ, v19, p729-753
Porter and van de Linde (1995). 'Green and Competitive: Ending the Stalemate', HBR, Sep-Oct 1995, p121-134

Assessing the Environment

Arthur (1996). ‘Increasing Returns and the New World of Business’, HBR, Jul-Aug 1996, p100-109
Bernhardt (1994). ‘‘I want it fast, factual, actionable’ - Tailoring Competitive Intelligence to Executives’ Needs’, LRP, V27 No 1, p12-24
Courtney, Kirkland and Viguerie (1997). ‘Strategy under Uncertainty’, HBR, Nov-Dec 1997, p67-79
Schoemaker (1995). ‘Scenario Planning: A Tool for Strategic Thinking’, SMR Winter 1995, p25-40

International Strategy

Porter (1998). 'Clusters and the New Economics of Competition', HBR, Nov-Dec 1998, p 77-90
Prahalad and Lieberthal (1998). 'The End of Corporate Imperialism', HBR, Jul-Aug 1998, p 69-79

Competitive Advantage, Strategic Resources and the Value Chain

Baden-Fuller (1995). ‘On Strategic Innovation, Corporate Entrepreneurship and Matching Outside-in to Inside-out Approaches to Strategy Research’, BJM, Special Issue (Dec), S3-S16
Day and Schoemaker (2000). 'Avoiding the pitfalls of emerging technologies' California Management Review, 42(2;Winter) p 8-33
Kim and Mauborgne (1999). 'Creating new market space', HBR, Jan-Feb 1999, p 83-93
Granstrand, Patel and Pavitt (1997). 'Multi-Technology Corporations: Why They Have "Distributed" Rather Than "Distinctive Core" Competencies', California Management Review, V39:4, p8-25
McEvily, Das and McCabe (2000) 'Avoiding Competence Substitution through knowledge sharing', Academy of Management Review, V25(2), p. 249-311
Porter (1996). ‘What is Strategy?’, HBR, Nov-Dec 1996, p61-78
Prahalad and Ramaswamy (2000). 'Co-opting Customer Competence', HBR, Jan-Feb 2000, p 79-87
Quinn (2000). 'Strategic Outsourcing: Leveraging knowledge capabilities', SMR, p. 9-21
Sobek, Liker and Ward (1998). 'Another Look at How Toyota Integrates Product Development', HBR, Jul-Aug 1998, p36-49
Stabell and Fjeldstad (1998). 'Configuring Value for Competitive Advantage: On Chains, Shops and Networks', SMJ, V19, p413-437
Teece, Pisano and Shuen (1997). 'Dynamic Capabilities and Strategic Management', SMJ, V18:7 p509-533

Organisational Learning and Knowledge Management

Cross and Baird (2000). 'Technology is not enough: Improving performance by building organizational memory', SMR, Spring 2000, p. 69-78
Garvin (1993). ‘Building a Learning Organization’, HBR, July-Aug, p78-91
Nevis, DiBella and Gould (1995). ‘Understanding Organisations as Learning Systems’, SMR, Winter 1995, p73-85
Pfeffer and Sutton (1999). 'The Smart-Talk Trap', HBR, May-June 1999, p 135-142
Prokesch (1997). ‘Unleashing the Power of Learning: An Interview with British Petroleum’s John Browne’, HBR, Sep-Oct 1997, p147-168

Structure, Systems, Processes and Corporate Culture

Bartlett and Ghoshal (1993). 'Beyond the M-Form: Toward a Managerial Theory of the Firm', SMJ, V14, p23-46
Bartlett and Ghoshal (1994-5). ‘Changing the Role of Top Management’, HBR, Nov-Dec 94 p79-88, Jan-Feb 95 p86-96, May-Jun 1995 p132-142
Bartlett and Ghoshal (1995). ‘Rebuilding Behavioural Context: Turn Process Reengineering into People Rejuvenation’, SMR, Fall 1995, p11-23
Eisenhardt and Brown (1998). 'Time Pacing: Competing in Markets That Won't Stand Still', HBR, Mar-Apr 1998, p59-69
Eisenhardt and Brown (1999). 'Patching - Restitching Business Portfolios in Dynamic Markets', HBR, May-Jun 1999, p 72-82
Garvin (1995). ‘Leveraging Processes for Strategic Advantage’, HBR, Sep-Oct 1995 p 77-90
Gittell (2000). 'Paradox of Coordination and Control', California Management Review, 42 (3;Spring), p101-117
Greiner (1972). 'Evolution and Revolution as Organisations Grow', HBR, Jul-Aug 1972, p37-46
Miles and Snow (1992). 'Causes of Failure in Network Organisations', California Management Review, Summer 1992, p53-72
Simons (1995). ‘Control in an Age of Empowerment’, HBR, March-April, p80-88

Corporate-Level Strategy, Mergers, Acquisitions and Alliances

Brouthers, Brouthers and Wilkinson (1995). ‘Strategic Alliances: Choose Your Partners’, LRP, V28 No 3, p18-25
Collis and Montgomery (1998). 'Creating Corporate Advantage', HBR, May-Jun 1998, p71-83
Economist (1999). 'How to make mergers work', and 'How to Merge', 9 January 1999, p15-16 and 21-23
Eisenhardt and Galunic (2000). 'Coevolving: At Last, a Way to Make Synergies Work', HBR, Jan-Feb 2000, p 91-101
Ghemawat and Ghadar (2000). 'The Dubious Logic of Global Megamergers', HBR, Jul-Aug 2000, p. 65-72
Goold and Campbell (1998). 'Desperately Seeking Synergy', HBR, Sept-Oct 1998, p131-143
Goold, Campbell and Alexander (1995). ‘Corporate Strategy: The Quest for Parenting Advantage’, HBR, Mar-Apr 1995, p120-132
Healy, Palepu and Ruback (1997). 'Which Takeovers Are Profitable? Strategic or Financial?', SMR, Summer 1997, p45-57
Hitt, Harrison, Ireland and Best (1998). 'Attributes of Successful and Unsuccessful Acquisitions of US Firms', BJM, V9:2, p91-114
Markides (1997). 'To Diversify or Not to Diversify', HBR, Nov-Dec 1997, p93-99

Strategic Change

Beer, Eisenstat and Spector (1990). ‘Why Change Programs Don’t Produce Change’, HBR, Nov-Dec 1990, p158-166
Beer and Nohria (2000). 'Cracking the Code of Change', HBR, May-June 2000, p. 133-141
Bourke (1992). ‘Implementing a Marketing Action Programme for AIB Group’, LRP, V25 No 6, p30-39
Brown and Eisenhardt (1997). ‘The Art of Continuous Change: Linking Complexity Theory and Time-Paced Evolution in Relentlesssly Shifting Organizations’, Administrative Science Quarterly, 42.p1-34
Day (1999) 'Creating a Market-Driven Organization', SMR, Fall 1999, p. 11-22
Ghoshal and Bartlett (1996). ‘Building Behavioural Context: A Blueprint for Corporate Renewal’, SMR, Winter 1996, p23-35
Hardy (1996). ‘Understanding Power: Bringing about Strategic Change’, BJM, Special Issue (Mar), pS3-S16
Heracleous and Langham (1996). ‘Strategic Change and Organisational Culture at Hay Management Consultants’, LRP, V29 No 4, p 485-494
Kotter (1995). ‘Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail’, HBR, Mar-Apr 1995, p 59-67
Stopford and Baden-Fuller (1994). 'Creating Corporate Entrepreneurship', SMJ, V15, p521-536

TQM and BPR

Grant, Shani and Krishnan (1994). ‘TQM’s Challenge to Management Theory and Practice’, SMR, Winter 1994, p25-35
Hammer (1990). ‘Re-engineering Work - Don't Automate, Obliterate’, HBR, July-August 1990, p104-112
Oliver (1993). ‘Re-engineering - a smashing idea’, Management Today, August 1993, p19-22

The Internet and E-Commerce/E-Business

Fortune (1999). 'The e-Corporation', 24 May 1999, p 40-71
Fortune (1999). 'The e-Volution of Big Business', 8 November1999, p 60-112
Evans and Wurster (1999). 'Getting Real about Virtual Commerce' , HBR, Nov-Dec 1999, p 84-94
Kaplan and Sawhney (2000). 'E-Hubs: The New B2B Marketplaces', HBR, May-June 2000, p 97-103
Peet (2000) 'Shopping around the web', Economist, Supplement to issue of 26 February 2000
Symonds (1999). 'Business and the Internet', Economist, Supplement to issue of 26 June 1999
Venkatraman (2000). 'Five Steps to a Dot.Com strategy: How to find your footing on the web', SMR, Spring 2000, p. 15-28
Voss (2000). 'Developing an eService Strategy', Business Strategy Review, V11(1) p 21-33

Adrian Haberberg

University of Westminster