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Managerial Fine-tuning

In: Making Strategy and Organization Compatible

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  • Claude Michaud
  • Jean-Claude Thoenig

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How does general management operate when facing choice situations that require heterogeneous solutions, or when implementing action plans that may be contradictory? Integrating heterogeneity when not managing contradictions is quite a common fact of life. It is not always comfortable for managers, whose ability to sustain dialectical approaches may be low. Others may not understand why they do what they do: decentralizing at the same time that they control more, cutting the R&D costs while asking the researchers to focus more on breakthrough innovation. The present chapter deals with one major skill: building complexity as a solution to the problems of heterogeneity.

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  • Claude Michaud & Jean-Claude Thoenig, 2003. "Managerial Fine-tuning," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Making Strategy and Organization Compatible, chapter 0, pages 95-135, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-51208-5_6
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230512085_6
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