Which Strategy When?

As a manager, you know that not all strategies work equally well in every setting. But how can you figure out which strategic framework will work best for you? Christopher B. Bingham (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Kathleen M. Eisenhardt (Stanford University) and Nathan R. Furr (Brigham Young University) offer suggestions in their Fall 2011 MIT Sloan Management Review article “Which Strategy When?”

Noting that what’s right for a company depends on its circumstances, its available resources and how it puts those resources together, the authors suggest that understanding the pace of change in your industry is a particularly useful factor in helping you decide among strategic frameworks. Free to subscribers
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