Describe the difference between emergent and intended strategies. Why might firms employ an emergent strategy?

What will be an ideal response?

Intended strategies can best be described as a firm's theories of how to gain a competitive advantage that are developed as a result of the strategic management process. Intended strategies are developed when firms choose and implement their strategies exactly as described by the strategic management process. Alternately, emergent strategies are theories of how to gain a competitive advantage in an industry that emerge over time or that have been radically reshaped once they are implemented. Firms employ emergent strategies since some of the information needed to complete the strategic management process may not be available when firms are developing their intended strategies.