Winfried,
> What is your preferred definition of "strategic management"? Or do you
You may find Knut Bleicher's _Das Konzept Integriertes Management_ (Campus
Verlag, 1991, ISBN 3-593-34480-7) or another book on the same topic (and
from the same publisher) by Cuno Puempin and Juergen Prange of interest.
>From Bleicher's book, p. 54 (and poorly translated by me):
Strategic management is concerned with the creation, care and
exploitation of the potential for success for which resources must be
allocated.
He distinguishes that from normative (p. 53)
The level of normative management concerns itself with general goals of
the organization, with principles, values and rules of operation, which
are directed towards maintaining the capability of the organization to
survive and develop.
and from operative managment (p. 55), which concerns itself with the
translation of the normative and strategic aspects of management into
economic and social practice (i.e., getting results through people).
Regards,
Bill
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