—David J. Hickson, Emeritus Professor of International Management & Organization, University of Bradford School of Management Originally published in 1978, became an instant classic, as it bridged the formerly separate fields of strategic management and organizational behavior. In this Stanford Business Classics reissue, noted strategy scholar Donald Hambrick provides a new introduction that describes the book's contribution to the field of organization studies. Miles and Snow also contribute new introductory material to update the book's central concepts and themes. focuses on how organizations adapt to their environments. The book introduced a theoretical framework composed of a dynamic and an empirically based showing four different types of adaptation. This framework helped to define subsequent research by other scholars on important topics such as configurational analysis, organizational fit, strategic human resource management, and multi-firm network organizations.