Mintzberg's Schools of Strategic Development

Henry Mintzberg's framework categorizes strategy development into three schools: prescriptive, descriptive, and configuration. The prescriptive school focuses on planned strategies, while the descriptive school examines organic strategy development through various subcategories like entrepreneurial and cognitive schools. The configuration school integrates these approaches, emphasizing the 5 Ps: plan, ploy, position, perspective, and pattern.

Which of the following best describes the prescriptive school of thought?

• It focuses on the organic development of strategies.

• It emphasizes formal planning and intended positioning.

• It is influenced by the organizational culture.

• It categorizes different subcategories of strategy development.

What is a key characteristic of the descriptive school?

• It focuses on the power dynamics within an organization.

• It relies on formal planning processes.

• It is driven by market positioning.

• It describes conditions outside formal planning that influence strategy.

Which school of thought considers strategy as a result of power struggles within an organization?

• Cultural School

• Cognitive School

• Power School

• Environmental School

What does the configuration school primarily focus on?

• The role of innovation in strategy development

• Formal planning and design of strategies

• Categorical approaches that integrate various strategy forms

• The influence of organizational culture on strategy

According to Mintzberg, which of the following is NOT one of the five Ps of strategy?

• Plan

• Perspective

• Profit

• Ploy