Strategy type |
Strategy origin |
Grade of deliberation/ emergence of strategy |
Strategy rod |
Flexibility based on |
Planned |
Formal plans from the central leadership |
Most deliberate |
Common formal plans |
- |
Entrepreneurial |
The central vision of a single leader |
Relatively deliberate but can emerge |
Entrepreneur’s vision |
Emerging new opportunities |
Ideological |
Shared beliefs |
Rather deliberate |
The collective vision of all actors |
Misunderstandings of a collective vision |
Umbrella |
Partial control of actions by leaders |
Partly deliberate, partly emergent and deliberately emergent |
Strategic boundaries defined by leaders |
Initiatives of actors |
Process |
Process |
Partly deliberate, partly emergent, and deliberately emergent |
Key processes in the organization |
Freedom of actors to fill the process content |
Unconnected |
Enclaves in organization |
Organizationally emergent |
Patterns shared by most actors |
Important actors out-of-control |
Consensus |
Consensus |
Rather emergent |
Mutual adjustment of common patterns without common intentions |
Freedom of personal or group actions that follow the consensus |
Imposed |
Environment |
Most emergent |
- |
Uncertainty of environment |