Economic Foundations of Strategic Management

Economic Foundations of Strategic Management
ISBN-10
1351941925
ISBN-13
9781351941921
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
284
Language
English
Published
2017-10-24
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Mehmet Barca

Description

This book explores the extent to which economic theory is able to provide the theoretical foundations of strategic management. To this end it draws on the philosophy of science; microeconomic theory; and different approaches to strategic management. The work shows that many of the propositions of strategic management are deducible from the economic theories considered. It argues that these propositions should be made open to empirical testing and that a unified theory of strategic management should be developed. Thus the book addresses a current major concern of theorists - that strategy remains ’atheoretical’ and that this reduces the predictive power of the subject and hampers further theory development. The essential contribution made is that economic theory should be systematically explored in order to establish the foundations of business strategy.

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