The relationship between the modes of strategic implementation and the types of strategic decision process

Abstract

Most prior literature has distinguished the modes of strategic implementation and the types of strategic decision process as concepts that were not related. When authors made studies about these concepts, they associated the modes of strategic implementation and the types of strategic decision process with other concepts. In response, this study offers an integrative framework where some models of authors that studied the modes of strategic implementation and the types of strategic decision process are explained and a relationship of these two concepts, including a case study where the results of the relation can be verified. This relation is based in the association of two authors, Hart (1992) and Fredrickson (1983). Hart (1992) proposed five modes of strategic implementation: command, symbolic, rational, transactive and generative. The results of the study associate his command, symbolic and rational modes with the synoptic type of strategic decision process of Fredrickson (1983) and the transactive and generative modes of strategic implementation of Hart (1992) with the incremental type of strategic decision process of Fredrickson (1983).