Mintzberg Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

In this document, you will find everything you need to know about the theories and models introduced by Mintzberg, Thompson, De Sitter and the LEAN methodology. I have tried to provide extensive elaboration on what is taught in the OD course at Radboud University, with additional examples and research into how these approaches are used in practice. That gives a better understanding of how to apply them in case studies and application/reflection exam questions. If you like the materials, pleas...

A comprehensive and brief summary for Strategy and Organisation mandatory readings in week 4. The papers are: - Eisenhardt & Zbaracki (1992): Strategic Decision making - Hambrick & Mason (1984): Upper echelons - Quinn (1989): Logical incrementalism - Mintzberg, Ahlstrand, & Lampel (1998): Strategy as cognition.

A comprehensive and short summary of all papers that are mandatory readings for week 3 for Strategy and Organisation. All the relevant content is summarised and it's structured following the guidelines for the exam. The summarised papers are: - Hax & Majluf (1991): A Formal Strategic Planning Process - Mintzberg (1994): The Fall and Rise of Strategic Planning - Grant (2003): Strategic planning in a turbulent environment: evidence from the oil majors

Summary of the first six chapters of Christensen - the innovators perspective and the five articles (Worren, Mintzberg, Birkinshaw&Gibson, Camuffo &Wilhelm and Womack & Jones). Not included; Achterbergh & Vriens and Thompson (There is a summary on Brightspace)

A comprehensive and short summary of all papers that are mandatory readings for week 6 for Strategy and Organisation. All the relevant content is summarised and it's structured following the guidelines for the exam. The summarised papers are: - Kaplan & Norton (1996): Having Trouble with your strategy? Then map it -Bourgeois & Brodwin (1984): Strategic Implementation: five approaches to an elusive phenomenon - Van de Ven & Sun (2011): Breakdowns in Implementing Models of Organisational Change...

Summary of: Watson Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 (only 91-94) Chapter 5 (only 153-170) Chapter 7 (only 204-213) Chapter 8 Articles Taylor Smith Weber Mintzberg Burns & Stalker Freidson Hatch & Schultz

Short summary Organization & Environment, all chapters book.

Week 1 - Competitive Strategy Article 1 - How competitive forces shape strategy – Michael E. Porter (1979) Article 2 - Firm Resources and Sustained Competitive Advantage – Jay Barney (1991) Article 3 - The Firm Matters, Not the Industry – Charles Baden-Fuller and John Stopford (1992) Article 4 - Thinking About Strategy – J.W. Stoelhorst (2008) Week 2 - Corporate Strategy Article 1 - Strategy and the “Business Portfolio” – Barry Hedley (1977) Article 2 - From competitiv...

MANAGEMENT 3720 TEST BANK Chapter 1 What Is Organizational Behavior? MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. Successful managers and entrepreneurs recognize that: a. technical knowledge is all that is needed for success. b. interpersonal skills are not important. c. technical skills are necessary, but insufficient, for succeeding in management. d. an understanding of human behavior does not impact effectiveness (c; Challenging; pp. 2-3) What Managers Do 2. Which one of the following is not considered an or...

LDR 531 Final Exam 2018 Mintzberg concluded that managers perform 10 different, highly interrelated roles. Which of the following is one of the broad categories into which these roles might be grouped? Over the past 2 decades, business schools have added required courses on people skills to many of their curricula. Why have they done this? Which of the following is best defined as a consciously coordinated social unit, composed of two or more people, which functions on a relatively continuo...