Validation of a new strategy-making process survey scale

Terms such as strategy-making, strategy-making process, strategy creation style and strategic thinking have all been a focus of the strategic management literature for over a decade. A synthesis of insight from the literature in relation to these terms indicates six modes of strategy-making process in contemporary practice: command, planning, entrepreneurial, transactive, strategic intent and thinking in time. A stratified sample of 216 company directors, chief executive officers, top managers, strategy professionals and line managers provides the data for the exploratory factor analysis, reliability analysis, factor correlation analysis and bivariate correlations applied to the development of a new survey scale