The Organizational Knowledge and the Effect on Determining the Strategic Formulation Approaches "A Field Study on Top Management Opinions in a Sample of Joint Stock Companies in Mosul City"

ABSTRACT The present paper concerned with studying the organizational knowledge manners to determine the approaches of strategies adopted by the top management. In order to reach this result, knowledge has been classified into tact and explicit. A model has been also adopted (Mintzberg 1973) to identify the domains of strategic formulization. The model adopted three basic approaches; they are adaptive approaches, planning approaches and entrepreneurial approaches. The study hypothesized that the manners of organizational knowledge may affect the selection of the approaches of strategic formulization. The sample included (37) working managers in (4) joint stock industrial companies in Mosul City. The data collected and analyzed to show the results. The study concluded several results that prove the effective relationship to the manners of organizational knowledge in the approaches of strategic formulization. .