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Mintzberg's Environmental School
The document discusses the environmental school of thought in strategic management, emphasizing that the environment acts as a central actor influencing organizational strategy. It highlights the need for organizations to adapt to their external environment or face extinction, linking this concept to biological theories of adaptability and survival. The limitations of this school of thought include its vague definitions and emphasis on environmental factors over managerial choice.
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Mintzberg's Environmental School
- 1. Environmental School of Thought Magaliao, KathleenIrah B. Rabago, Mark Allen BA 190 - Strategic Management University of the Philippines Prof. Mita Angela M. Dimalanta
- 2. Minztberg’s 10Schools0f Thought (Kotelnikov, V. ,n.d.) Sept. 22, 20162
- 3. Footer text here ARITHMEPIC July22, 20123 .
- 4. Footer text here REACTIVE July22, 20124
- 5. ENVIRONMENTAL SCHOOL OFTHOUGHT Sept. 22, 20165 •Environment is defined as all elements that exist outside the boundary of the organization and have the potential to affect all or part of the organization •Environment is an actor, rather than a factor •A reactive process •Strategy as a response
- 6. Premises(Mintzberg, et al,1998) Sept.22, 20166 • The environment, presenting itself to the organization as a set of general forces, is the central actor in the strategy making process. • The organization must respond to these forces, or else be "selected out." • Leadership thus becomes a passive element for purposes of reading the environment and ensuring proper adaptation by the organization. • Organizations end up clustering together in distinct ecological type niches, positions where they remain until resources become scarce or conditions too hostile. Then they die.
- 7. Origins of thethought Sept. 22, 20167 •Biology -adaptability and survivability •Highly related to: contingency theory, the situational leadership population ecology.
- 8. Limitations and Contribution Sept.22, 20168 •Contribution •Gives a general role of the environment in strategy formulation •Limitations: “It all depends” Lack of emphasis on choice Vague definition of environment
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- 10. CONTINGENCY THEORY Sept. 22, 201610 •Stability •Complexity • Market diversity • Hostility POPULATION ECOLOGY •Adaptation •Choice •Survival
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- 14. Footer text here References Minztberg,H., B. Ahlastrand and J. Lampel. (1998). Strategy Safari: A guided tour through the wilds of Strategic management. pg 285-300. The Free Press. New York. Mintzberg’s Ten Schools of Thought about Strategy Formation. (n.d.). Retrieved September 9, 2016, from http://opentuition.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/group- documents/23/1271485643- MINTZBERGTENSCHOOLOFTHOUGHTFORSTRATEGYFORMATION.pdf Kotelnikov, V. (n.d.) Ten Major Strategic Management Schools: A Comparative Analysis. Accessed from http://www.1000ventures.com/business_guide/mgmt_inex_stategy_10schools.html. 14
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- #3 -- say one of the schools of thought is the envi school of thought The use of this school of though (in aggregate is the different approaches/ way of thinking to formulate strategies for firms)
- #8 Organizations as organisms which have to adapt in environmental conditions to be able to survive. Cite Charles Darwin’s theory of adaptability. Long necked from short necked.
- #9 Envi School of thought is a way of thinking where strategies are based on the environment. Disregarding choice and thinking skills of people in strategy making. EST seems to state that strategies have to be done vs strategies are to be done.
- #11 Population Ecology: Population- orgs as fruit flies, Innovations as new DNA Strands/ needed to innovate to be able to survive. Choice- not in the vocab. Strategies are mere reactions- need to be done for resource utilization. (Sees strategy, ie resource allocation- if allocation or utilization of resources are reactions to the limited capacity of the environment. ) Survival-
- #12 COMMUTATIVITY
- #13 Leadership approach is based on what the ability and willingness level of followers. Followers and their ability and willingness as the environment.