THE INTERFACE AND CONVERGENCE OF THE STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATIONAL ENVIRONMENT DOMAINS

Extending Bluedorn's (1993) review Of environmental contingency theory , we examine the strategic management research conducted from 1980-199 3 that explicitly deals with the environmental domain. Framing our app roach as a constrained strategic choice perspective, our focus on this intersection of the strategic management and organizational environme nt literature leads us to examine six specific subsets of this literat ure: (1) strategic leadership and upper echelons; (2) scanning; (3) in terorganizational relationships; (4) institutional theory; (5) organiz ational alignment; and (6) strategic control and evaluation. In our di scussions of these topics, we identify research trends and generalizat ions as well as identify promising research possibilities and question s for future research. In this vein, we conclude the article with our identification of several possibilities for theoretical syntheses and theory development.