{"title":"On the staying power of defenders, analyzers, and prospectors","authors":"D. Hambrick","doi":"10.5465/AME.2003.11851883","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The article focuses on “Organizational Strategy, Structure, and Process,” by Raymond Miles and Charles Snow, and its effect on strategic management and organization theory. Miles and Snow's views are at the philosophical midpoint of business-level strategy—between the situationalists and the universalists. They proposed four basic types of strategy: defenders, prospectors, analyzers, and reactors. The concept of strategic equifinality, a configurational view of strategy, business risk, and the typology of strategy classification systems are mentioned.","PeriodicalId":337734,"journal":{"name":"Academy of Management Executive","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2003-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"225","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Academy of Management Executive","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5465/AME.2003.11851883","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The article focuses on “Organizational Strategy, Structure, and Process,” by Raymond Miles and Charles Snow, and its effect on strategic management and organization theory. Miles and Snow's views are at the philosophical midpoint of business-level strategy—between the situationalists and the universalists. They proposed four basic types of strategy: defenders, prospectors, analyzers, and reactors. The concept of strategic equifinality, a configurational view of strategy, business risk, and the typology of strategy classification systems are mentioned.