Shifting the strategic management paradigm -- The long and short of strategic planning -- Does strategic planning improve company performance? -- Strategic management -- tasks and challenges in the 1990s -- Pressures from stakeholders hit Japanese companies -- Macroenvironmental analysis for strategic management -- How competitive forces shape strategy -- Assessing and enhancing strategic capability : a value-driven approach -- Brief case : mission, vision and strategic intent -- Demystifying vision -- Mission statements make cents -- Leadership and vision -- Mission statements revisited -- Setting business objectives and measuring performance -- On objectives -- Strategic downsizing -- Competence and strategic paradox.