International Review of Strategic Management 1993, Volume 4

This is the fourth in a series of annual volumes which continues to provide a critical review of the developments and best practice in strategic management. The aim, over time, is to cover all aspects of strategic management, and to record major changes and advances. Each volume reflects the state-of-the-art in the topics covered, explores different aspects of a theme related to strategy and identifies trends and important topics. Volume 4 takes leadership as its theme, simultaneously discussing visionary leadership and modern thinking about vision. STATE OF THE ART REVIEW: The Role of Analytic Models in Strategic Management

VISION AND LEADERSHIP: Strategic Intent

Strategic Vision or Strategic Con?

Rhetoric or Reality

Corporate Visioning

Will Humpty Dumpty Win?

Rescuing Leadership from Humpty Dumpty

Leadership-Focused Management Development: Are Today's Practices Meeting Tomorrow's Needs?

Leadership as a Form of Culture: Its Present and Future States in Japan

OTHER TOPICS: Empirical Proof of a Paradigmic Theory of Strategic Success Behaviours of Environment Serving Organizations

Managing Strategic Change in a High Technology Environment

Acquisition Regimes: Managing Cultural Risk and Relative Deprivation in Corporate Acquisitions

Effective Management Development

A Comparative Analysis of the Performance of Venture Capital Funds, Stocks and Bonds, and Other Investment Opportunities.

DAVID HUSSEY is a well-known international authority on strategic management, with experience as both a practitioner in and a consultant to major companies from many industries. He was 18 years with Harbridge House. He is author or editor of over 25 books on strategy or management development. One of the founders of the Strategic Planning Society, and a director of the Japan Strategic Management Institute, he is currently visiting professor in strategic management at Nottingham Business School. He is former editor of the Journal of Strategic Change. His current interests include the development of practical strategic analysis methods, and improvements to the process of implementing strategic decisions.