Handbook of Strategic Management, Second Edition,

Revised and updated for the second edition, the Handbook of Strategic Management provides a set of broad-based bibliographic essays on strategic management. It covers synoptic approaches, complexity theory, organizational capacity, financing strategy, networks, and chaos theory and offers an in-depth look the use of strategic management in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors. The National Institute of Personnel Management called this book "...the most comprehensive single-source treatment of strategic management." New topics discuss the role of strategic management in political decision making, uncertainty, the absence of strategy, productivity, teamwork, leadership, and change.

This chapter examines a case study in which an organization whose continued
funding (and continued existence) was made contingent upon its producing a
strategic plan. The strategic planning model employed failed to produce results
until the author and associates were able to "jump-start" the process by the
successful application of conflict management techniques. This study focuses on
the Community Education Network (CEN), an organization serving the schools of
Metroville, ...