...Yvon Dufour; Peter Steane; Anne Marie Corriveau Purpose The purpose of this paper is to build on the configurational approach to strategic thinking – with the “écocycle” framework – to advance the understanding of the organizational life cycle. This integrative approach brings new insights...

.... Miller (1996) argued that the main obstacle to a more rapid evolution of the configurational approach is the rather narrow and reductionist view of most management researchers. Researchers with a generally positivist allegiance are convinced that the validity of a configuration is directly related...