Strategy and recursivity¹

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Singer, Alan E.

Affiliations: Department of Management, University of Canterbury Christchurch, New Zealand. Tel.: +64 3 358 8934; E-mail: Aes@mang.canterbury.ac.nz

Note: [1] This paper was completed while the author was a visitor at the College of Business Administration University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Abstract: Conceptual models of strategy can be depicted and described in a variety of ways, such as objects-of-choice in a meta-modelling decision, as end states of a transition process, or as patterns that replicate in managers' minds. Thus, discussions of the models and their uses typically invoke the same categories of meaning that are found in the general discourse on strategy. In this sense, recursivity and self-reference are pervasive. Accordingly, a conceptual framework is set out that indicates a potential synthesis of strategic thinking with ecological thinking.

DOI: 10.3233/HSM-2003-22203

Journal: Human Systems Management, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 73-85, 2003