Can Strategic Management Show the Way Out from the Current Crisis Towards Social Responsibility?

Abstract

This chapter deals with social responsibility, enterprise policy/governance, management, and their innovation. Several different approaches to strategic planning are analyzed. They include planning and configuration schools of thought. Innovative configuration of enterprises encourages improved organization of enterprises’ policy/governance, management, and operation and encourages innovation. We conclude that the requisite wholeness of the enterprise’s social responsibility policy is important within the governance of the enterprise. It carries social responsibility into effect within the invention-innovation-diffusion process.

Keywords: Competitive advantage, configuration schools, crisis, enterprise, enterprise governance, enterprise policy, enterprise policy innovation, innovation, innovativeness, innovative enterprises, invention-innovation-diffusion process, neoliberalism, planning, planning schools, requisite holism, schools of strategic management, social responsibility, social responsibility policy, strategic management, values.