Developing Strategic Thinking in Business Education

Authors

  • Contantin BRĂTIANU Bucharest University of Economic Studies

Abstract

The new business environment becomes more and more turbulent with rapid and unpredictable changes. Operational management focusing on present issues and profit maximization is not able to look into the future and anticipate market dynamics. Companies need to develop strategic management as an overarching framework able to search into the future and construct strategies for achieving a competitive advantage. That needs a new way of thinking and decision making. The core of that process is strategic thinking. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the content of strategic thinking and to investigate how it is developed in business education. I shall analyze the content of strategic thinking using a metaphorical approach and considering a spectrum of monochromatic thinking models based on some determinant features. For the second part I performed a survey based on a questionnaires addressed to 5000 students enrolled in undergraduate and graduate programs of economics and business from the main schools of economic sciences in Romania. The questionnaire contains 47 items able to reveal the dimensions of the strategic thinking pattern we consider of being significant for the managers in this new knowledge economy. Results show the need for improving the content of business education curriculum, and the teaching approach.

Author Biography

Contantin BRĂTIANU, Bucharest University of Economic Studies

UNESCO Department for Business Administration, Faculty of Business Administration

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2015-09-28

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BRĂTIANU, C. (2015). Developing Strategic Thinking in Business Education. Management Dynamics in the Knowledge Economy, 3(3), 409. Retrieved from https://www.managementdynamics.ro/index.php/journal/article/view/144

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