Managerial implications
The previous sections demonstrate, to a greater or lesser extent, that each of the perspectives can describe or explain some aspects of the process of strategic decision making. The very complexity of these decisions makes it unlikely that any one of the perspectives in isolation would adequately capture the complexity of the process operating in all organisations, in every situation, and at any point in time. While the above examples have presented the process in isolation, in many organisations this is not the case: the processes occur in combination. Indeed these different views about how
strategies develop are not mutually exclusive and in most organisations managers see
strategies developing through a mix of such processes.