Determinants of Strategic Thinking

A manager’s role in strategic planning and decision making depends on his or her way of thinking. Strategic planning frameworks only provide questions to be answered; the answers depend on executives’ methodologies for decision making. Strategic thinking plays a critical role in today’s business survival. This paper defines several factors that impact on strategic thinking: system view, personal factors, organizational factors, and intuitional factors. Each of developed constructs affects strategic thinking, which can be improved based on this survey results.