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  title info:
    title: Strategy without design
    sub title: the silent efficacy of indirect action
  name:
    name part: Chia, Robert C. H.
    name part: 1949-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Holt, Robin
    name part: 1966-
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 248 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: "In business the survival and flourishing of an organisation is most often associated with the ability of its strategists to create a distinctive identity by confronting and rising above others. Yet not all organisational accomplishment can be explained with recourse to deliberate choice and purposeful design on the part of strategic actors. This book shows why. Using examples from the world of business, economics, military strategy, politics and philosophy, it argues that collective success may inadvertently emerge as a result of the everyday coping actions of a multitude of individuals, none of whom intended to contribute to any preconceived plan. A consequence of this claim is that a paradox exists in strategic interventions, one that no strategist can afford to ignore. The more directly and deliberately a strategic goal is single-mindedly sought, the more likely it is that such calculated instrumental action eventually works to undermine its own initial success"--Provided by publisher.
  table of contents: Spontaneous order : the roots of strategy emergence -- Economic agency and steps to ecological awareness -- Reconceptualizing agency, self-interest and purposive action -- The 'practice turn' in strategy research -- Building and dwelling : two ways of understanding strategy -- Strategy as 'wayfinding' -- The silent efficacy of indirect action.
  note: Robert C. H. Chia and Robin Holt.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Strategic planning
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Planning
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Strategy (Philosophy)
  classification: HD30.28 .C4953 2009
  classification: 658.4/012
  identifier: 9780521895507
  identifier: 0521895502
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    record creation date: 090616
    record change date: 20151113130515.0
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