Part I: Context and major theories 1 - Synoptic (one best way) approaches of strategic management 2 - A review of research on incremental approaches to strategy 3 - Applications and limitations of complexity theory in organization theory and strategy Part II: Major concepts and ideas 4 - The environment and strategic management 5 - Change in chewable bites: managing the strategic change portfolio 6 - Organizational capacity in strategic management 7 - Rational and political models of strategic decision making: understanding the role of firm performance and stakeholder political pressure 8 - Implementing strategy: a contingency perspective 9 - Uncertainty and strategic management 10 - The philosophy of science and the problem of unobservables in strategic management research 11 - Financing strategy 12 - Strategy abscence Part III - The organization and strategy 13 - Strategic management: developmental themes and challenges in a basic orientation 14 - Strategy, structure and performance 15 - Strategic management for productivity, or is ti the other way around ? 16 - From networks to network structures: collaborative strategies 17 - Strategic public planning: external orientations and strategic planning team members 18 - Paradoxes in leadership and strategic change 19 - Critical-incident analysis of the individual and organizational environment of public-sector executives 20 - Strategic management and economic development 21 - Chaos theory and strategic management Part IV: use of strategic management in the three sectors A. Private sector 22 - Private-sector strategic management 23 - Enhacing worldwide strategic planning B. Public sector 24 - Perspectives on public-sector strategic management 25 - Strategic management in the federal government: necessary and sufficient elements 26 - Strategic planning in the office of child support enforcement 27 - The strategic management proccess at he IRS 28 - Use of strategic planning and reinventation and the implementation of the government performance and results act: a case study 29 - Strategic management in state government 30 - Achieving governmental missions with innovative practices and technology: innovation in the strategic management of regional transportation improvement 31 - Strategic management in city government 32 - Citizen-driven strategic planning in local government: the case of orange county, florida 33 - City or coral springs performance measurement and management system 34 - The community education network: negotiating the path to a strategic plan C. The nonprofit sector 35. Strategic management in the nonprofit sector 36. Thinking strategically in the changing health care environment 37. The environment of strategic management in health care organizations 38. Strategic cost management: a theory and case study in academic institutions