Business strategy and dominant economic theories under critics.

In this essay, the author analyses, or more precisely “deconstructs” the essence of thinking about “strategy” and the overall governance of “US type” organizations/dominant neoliberal economic thinking, predominating the current both academic management and applied economics scene. By drawing on a s...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Omar Aktouf
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad del Rosario 2013-11-01
Series:Universidad y Empresa
Online Access:http://revistas.urosario.edu.co/index.php/empresa/article/view/2739
id doaj-2ccb002c314f486da1041bc4b74aa6b5
record_format Article
spelling doaj-2ccb002c314f486da1041bc4b74aa6b52020-11-25T00:17:40ZengUniversidad del RosarioUniversidad y Empresa0124-46392145-45582013-11-01678392048Business strategy and dominant economic theories under critics.Omar Aktouf0HEC-MontrealIn this essay, the author analyses, or more precisely “deconstructs” the essence of thinking about “strategy” and the overall governance of “US type” organizations/dominant neoliberal economic thinking, predominating the current both academic management and applied economics scene. By drawing on a simultaneously historical, heuristic, epistemological, and methodological reading of the dominant work and system on this subject, which he refers to as “Porterism”, the author presents a resolutely critical review of the full range theories of managerial “strategy” as well as those of the most notable author in the field, namely, Michael Porter.http://revistas.urosario.edu.co/index.php/empresa/article/view/2739
collection DOAJ
language English
format Article
sources DOAJ
author Omar Aktouf
spellingShingle Omar Aktouf
Business strategy and dominant economic theories under critics.
Universidad y Empresa
author_facet Omar Aktouf
author_sort Omar Aktouf
title Business strategy and dominant economic theories under critics.
title_short Business strategy and dominant economic theories under critics.
title_full Business strategy and dominant economic theories under critics.
title_fullStr Business strategy and dominant economic theories under critics.
title_full_unstemmed Business strategy and dominant economic theories under critics.
title_sort business strategy and dominant economic theories under critics.
publisher Universidad del Rosario
series Universidad y Empresa
issn 0124-4639
2145-4558
publishDate 2013-11-01
description In this essay, the author analyses, or more precisely “deconstructs” the essence of thinking about “strategy” and the overall governance of “US type” organizations/dominant neoliberal economic thinking, predominating the current both academic management and applied economics scene. By drawing on a simultaneously historical, heuristic, epistemological, and methodological reading of the dominant work and system on this subject, which he refers to as “Porterism”, the author presents a resolutely critical review of the full range theories of managerial “strategy” as well as those of the most notable author in the field, namely, Michael Porter.
url http://revistas.urosario.edu.co/index.php/empresa/article/view/2739
work_keys_str_mv AT omaraktouf businessstrategyanddominanteconomictheoriesundercritics
_version_ 1725378524905209856