Strategic Management LO15471

Bill Harris (billh@lsid.hp.com)
Tue, 21 Oct 1997 08:40:46 -0800 (PDT)

Replying to LO15242 --

Winfried Dressler wrote:

> The concept of Knut Bleicher and the school of St. Gallen in Switzerland
> ("Integriertes Management") which Bill mentioned is also quite a good
> example for such a concept and will be part of the course. There are two

I'm rereading Bleicher's book right now, and I'm curious: it seems like
it contains many good concepts, concepts related to the sort of stuff we
discuss here. However, I've never heard him or the St. Gallen management
model mentioned in the English language literature.

So, the questions are:

Are those concepts and that management model known in the English
speaking parts of the world? (I know pieces --- perhaps most of the
pieces --- are known, but the St. Gallen model puts them together quite
nicely.)

How are those concepts received in the German speaking parts of the
world? Are they seen as leading edge, okay but obvious, or ignored as
not useful?

Are there any good expressions of this model in English? (I know of
several in German, but I haven't found any articles or magazines to
pass out to colleagues, and queries on a couple of the books indicated
that translations were not [yet] in progress.)

Bill

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