Research Paper on:
Dilemmas for Business

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rationally or adaptive, cultural or structural, or even continuous or radical. The aspects of empowerment may be contradictory to the way in which leadership and command take place and economic  and social goals may be seen as divergent, However, in many cases these are not dichotomies to the extent that is assumed, and may of these dilemmas are not mutually  exclusive. There are many proponents of strategic thinking that advocate rational changes that are well thought out and even military in the way they are laid down. It can  be argued strategic thinking for businesses only emerged in the western world in the 1920s with Alfred Sloan in such companies as General Motors, and it was subsequently evidenced in  the way the Japanese entered the automotive industry. Japanese executives toured US manufacturing plants, learning all they could, gaining the information needed to establish a competitive advantage. In this way  there was a rational strategic plan, which was seen to operate and result in the very large market share the Japanese have gained, as they were able to adopt and  adapt the observed methodologies in manufacture to make more effective methods. This indicates the evolution of adaptive strategies. However there is also a more well known example of how even  when there has been rational strategy, adaptive, or emergent strategy may increase the value and determine success. The well-known case that demonstrates this was the introduction of motorbikes into the  United States by Honda, where large bikes could not be sold, but the sales executives were using small bikes to travel around on and Sears saw these and offered to  sell them though their catalogue (Mintzberg et al, 1998). However, this is an old example and has been used in many studies. A more recent example is that of the