Cover Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- PART I THEORY, SCHOOLS AND PRACTICE -- 1 Schools of Thought in Strategic Management: Fragmentation, Integration or Synthesis -- Tom Elfring and Henk W. Volberda -- 2 Business Policy and Strategy as a Professional Field -- J.-C. Spender -- 3 Thoughts on Schools -- Commentary: Henry Mintzberg -- PART II INTEGRATION EFFORTS IN THE FIELD -- 4 Complexity and Multiple Rationalities in Strategy Processes -- Patrick Regnér -- 5 The Role of the Strategist -- Thomas Ericson, Anders Melander and Leif Melin -- 6 What Makes Time Strategic? -- Frans A.J. van den Bosch -- 7 Fragmentation in Strategic Management -- Patrice Cooper -- 8 The Elusive Search for Integration -- Commentary: Paul J.H. Schoemaker -- PART III THE BOUNDARY SCHOOL: STRATEGY AS A BOUNDARY DECISION -- 9 The Boundary School -- Overview: Nicolai J. Foss -- 10 Managing Beyond Boundaries: The Dynamics of Trust in Alliances -- Christian Koenig and Gilles van Wijk -- 11 Strategic Alliances -- Janine Stiles -- 12 The Boundary Decision in Strategy -- Commentary: Charles Baden-Fuller -- PART IV THE DYNAMIC CAPABILITIES SCHOOL: STRATEGY AS A COLLECTIVE LEARNING PROCESS TO DEVELOP DISTINCTIVE COMPETENCES -- 13 Building Blocks for Strategy Theory: Resources, Dynamic Capabilities and Competences -- Overview: Ron Sanchez -- 14 Modularity and Dynamic Capabilities -- Ron Sanchez and Joseph T. Mahoney -- 15 Strategic Learning in a Knowledge-intensive Organization -- Paula Kirjavainen -- 16 The State of Art of the Dynamic Capabilities School -- Commentary: Howard Thomas -- PART V THE CONFIGURATIONAL SCHOOL: STRATEGY AS A DECISION OF TRANSITION FROM ONE ARCHETYPE TO ANOTHER -- 17 Researching Configuration -- Overview: Henry Mintzberg, Bruce Ahlstrand and Joseph Lampel.

18 A Framework for a Managerial Understanding of Strategy Development -- Andy Bailey and Gerry Johnson -- 19 Strategy Configurations in the Evolution of Markets -- Michael W. Lawless -- 20 Configurations and the Firm in Current Strategic Management -- Commentary: Johannes M. Pennings -- PART VI NEW DIRECTIONS IN STRATEGY: WAYS TO SYNTHESIZE -- 21 Multiple Futures of Strategy Synthesis: Shifting Boundaries, Dynamic Capabilities and Strategy Configurations -- Tom Elfring and Henk W. Volberda -- References -- Index.