Title: Different management systems: integration or combination?

Authors: Sugandren Naidoo; Rohith Ramphal

Addresses: Graduate School of Business Leadership, University of South Africa, South Africa ' Graduate School of Business Leadership, University of South Africa, South Africa

Abstract: The focus in this paper is on integration and combination, as two important concepts in management systems. In this paper, a definition of integration and combination as related to business management is proposed. The lack of resolution can be extrapolated to basic dissimilarities in the competing resource-based perspectives on strategy and the application of strategy typologies based on those standpoints. A comprehensive literature review will be conducted. The authors identify a high-level meta synthesis of integration and combination definitions as related to business management. The findings argue that there are remarkable differences, but also similarities between the analyses of Schumpeter and Anderson's theories of integration and combination.

Keywords: integration; management systems; combination; literature review; business management; strategy; meta synthesis.

DOI: 10.1504/IJPQM.2020.107281

International Journal of Productivity and Quality Management, 2020 Vol.30 No.1, pp.92 - 106

Received: 21 Mar 2018
Accepted: 08 Dec 2018
Published online: 11 May 2020 *

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