This paper aims to connect a lot of different tools (including concepts
or theories) of corporate, business (competitive), and functional
strategy in terms of both chronological time and timeperspective.
Some managers appear to strike balances of tradeoffs between
daily and long-term business challenges through dexterous bargaining.
Based on such reality, we firstly classify plenty of tools in the
light of chronological time span on the one hand : financial statements,
ROI, BCG Matrix (PPM), SWOT, PEST, Five Forces, Ansoff
Matrix, and Business Location (Mishina)? on the other hand, we
also identify those which are all difficult to draw a line of specific
time-span: Resource Based View, Emergent (Mintzberg), and Retrospective
Sensemaking (Weick). Secondly, we critically review the
stage model of organization structure (Galbraith and Nathanson)
from timeperspective point of view. Thirdly, referring to the“center
of gravity”of the counterpart in not theoretical but practical bargaining
(Morioka), we apply it analogically only to connect different
tools: formulating the goal desired (time-perspective), controlling
probabilities to be chosen by consumers (chronological), allocating
time relevant of the management staff (chronological), and making
others concentrate on what and how (time-perspective).