In other words, structure shapes strategy. This âstructuralistâ approach, which has its roots in the structure-conduct-performance paradigm of industrial organization economics1, has dominated the practice of strategy for the past 30 years.
For the 20th-century painter, see Francis Bacon (artist). For other people, see Francis Bacon (disambiguation). Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban, PC KC (/ËbeÉªkÉn/; 22 January 1561 â 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, and author. He served both as Attorney General and as Lord Chancellor of England.
Francis Bacon and the scientific method. Francis Bacon at his desk. From Shakespeare's England. I have taken all knowledge to be my province (from a letter to Lord Burleigh, 1592). Bacon's ambition was not merely to master all knowledge, but to reform it, especially the way by which new knowledge was to be acquired.