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The configuration school: strategy formation as a process of transformation
"Is that it? Is that the big bang?"
The history of any one part of the earth, like the life of a soldier, consists of long periods of boredom and short periods of terror.
-Stephen Jay Gould
All of the above. This is the message of the configuration school, but with a particular angle. Each school at its own time, in its own place. This school, therefore, differs from all the others in one fundamental respect: it offers the possibility of reconciliation, one way to integrate the messages of the other schools.
Configuration and transformation
There are two main ...
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