PLEADING IN FAVOUR OF STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT

Abstract

Strategic management focuses on future development of organizations, based on a vision and a strategy. If strategic leaders demonstrate epistemic competencies, business can take place not according to the zero sum game rule, where there are always winners and losers, but to a non-zero sum game rule, where there could be only winners and no losers. Epistemic competence is given by the scientific nature of knowledge, it breaks down the mental automatism generated by common day to day personal experience and it uses mathematical models and other specific methods. Strategic management and its practical content can best be understood within the context of the theory of organization, for organizations are indispensable for the general human and civilizational progress.

Keywords

• strategic management
• strategic vision
• strategy
• strategic leadership
• epistemology
• epistemic competencies
• scientific knowledge