Strategic Flexibility

About the Editors Gary Hamel is Professor of Strategic and International Management at London Business School. He was formerly visiting Professor of International Business at the Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Michigan. Gary Hamel teaches on corporate senior executive programmes, and is a consultant to various American, European and Japanese multinationals. He is on the editorial board of the Strategic Management Journal and is a member of the Global Business Network. He is author of Competing for the Future with C. K. Prahalad. C. K. Prahalad is Harvey C. Fruehauf Professor of Business Administration and Professor of Corporate Strategy and International Business at the Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Michigan. He has consulted with many multinational firms including Motorola, AT&T, Philips, Honeywell and Eastman Kodak. He is co-author with Gary Hamel of the McKinsey Award winning article, The Core Competence of the Corporation. Howard Thomas is Dean of the College of Commerce and Business Administration at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and James F. Towey Professor of Strategic Management at UIUC. He became Dean in May 1992. Prior to this he was Foundation Professor of Management at the Australian Graduate School of Management, New South Wales, and Director of the Doctoral Program at London Business School, England. He is internationally recognized as one of the leading experts in the field of strategic management theory. He serves on the editorial boards of various management journals and is President for the Strategic Management Society and has published widely in the areas of corporate and competitive strategy. He has an international reputation as a consultant in strategy and serves on a number of boards. Donald O'Neal, MBA and PhD (Business Administration), University of Illinois is an Assistant Professor of Management at the University of Illinois at Springfield. After a successful business career, including management positions in engineering and sales, and, latterly, as Vice President of Human Resources he studied for a doctorate in strategic management at the UIUC. In addition to teaching his interests include research in corporate governance and consulting in the areas of strategy and leadership.

• INNOVATION. Improving Innovation Performance in Older Firms: The General Manager's Role (J. Christiansen). Everyday Innovation/Everyday Strategy (G. Johnson & A. Huff). Cooperative R&D and Competence Building (B. Quelin & C. Mothe). Strategic Trajectories and Patterns of Innovation (J. Stimpert, et al.). ORGANIZATION. The H-P Way: An Application Using Deliberate and Emergent Corporate Cultures to Analyze Strategic Competitive Advantage (S. Kowalczyk & G. Giusti). Good for Practice: An Integrated Theory of the Value of Alternative Organizational Forms (R. Miles, et al.). Strategic Reengineering: An Internal Industry Analysis Framework (K. Pritsker). Changing Formal and Informal Structure to Enhance Organizational Knowledge (T. Thompson & K. Valley). LEADERSHIP. Opening Pandora's Box: Do Good Ethics Make Good Business? (P. Godfrey, et al.). Sage, Visionary, Prophet and Priest: Leadership Styles of Knowledge Management and Wisdom (S. Green & P. Cooper). Information Competences and Knowledge Creation at the Corporate Centre (Y. Merali & J. McGee). Evaluating Board Performance (D. O'Neal & H. Thomas). Where Do Strategic Ideas Come From? (P. Raimond). PARTNERSHIP. Strategic Supplier Segmentation: A Model for Managing Suppliers in the 21st Century (J. Dyer, et al.). An Investigation of the Knowledge Structures of French and German Managers (S. Floyd, et al.). COMPETENCE. The Alchemy of Competence (T. Durand). Structure Decisions and the Multinational Enterprise: A Dynamic Competence Perspective (D. Garvis & W. Bogner). Discovering Strategy: Competitive Advantage from Idiosyncratic Experimentation (R. McGrath). Strategic Renewal and Competence Building: Four Dynamic Mechanisms (H. Volderba & C. Baden-Fuller).