Strategic Thinking Mode Construct-the Classification And Synthesis Based On The Core Logic Of Strategic Management Theory

Since P. Selznick introduced the concept of the unique competitive advantage(distinctive competence) to construct the prototype of the modern strategy in1957,strategic management has gone through more than half a century as an independentdiscipline. However, either in academia or in the business community, the nature ofstrategic management hasn’t reached a consensus and formed a strategic managementtheory jungle. C.A. Montgomery maintained that the biggest obstacle in the study ofstrategic management is not analytical, but philosophical. Rumelt also held that strategicmanagement research hasn’t grown up from its philosophical roots. Based on themanagement, economics, sociology, psychology and other disciplines, strategicmanagement is bound to experience a lasting and difficult growth process to absorb andintegrate other disciplines. But no matter how hard this process is, if strategic managementis to become a truly independent discipline, it is necessary to form its own philosophicalbasis, and this contains the logical framework of the theory. For the above reasons, we canfind that from its core logic perspective to analyze the theory of strategic management hasbecome a necessary and urgent research topic.By means of a lot of literature review and logical deduction and reasoning, the studytry to analyze and synthesize the existing strategic management theories based on thesubject of philosophy, logic, sociology and management and proposed an integratedstrategic thinking mode.The main results of this paper are listed as follows.1. Construct a logical form model of the strategic management theoryThis study constructs a logical form model of strategic management theory by meansof the literature synthesis. The model is based on the two dimensions the propositions andassumptions and theoretical context of the theoretical construction so as to clearly state thelogical relationship among proposition, assumption and context.2. Establish the framework of classifying strategic management theory schools basedon the logical form of strategic management theoryScholars have put forward many classifying methods on strategic management theoryby different perspectives based their research needs. The second objective of this study isthat based on the strategic logic form’s two basic dimensions-environmental assumptionsand decision-making assumptions-establish a new classifying framework for the strategicmanagement schools. In this framework, the logical content of the strategic management theory can be analyzed according the basic dimensions of the strategic logic form.3. Build a new strategic thinking modeUnder the framework of logical form, an integrated strategic mode is built by way ofsynthesizing the logic content of strategic management theory. This strategic thinkingmode is based on the basic logic form, starting from the fundamental point for strategicmanagement research-the basic objectives of the enterprise (profit and growth), refiningthe basic elements of strategic thinking so as to form an integrated strategic thinking mode.