A meta-analysis on strategic thinking literatures

The researches done in the field of strategic thinking were recognized using meta-analysis approach.It is a practical research,and for using meta-analysis,it is classified as qualitative researches. Statistical population of this research is consisted of 128 theses and 37 Persian articles and 18 Latin articles which have been collected from iran.doc, civilica,portal of humanities,mag iran,University Jihad Scientific Database, Science Direct Data Base and Emerald. Among them ,about 20 studies in which Correlation Coefficients, Significance factor,meaningful coefficients or Correlation Coefficients and the Chi 2 amount were calculated ,and were selected and studied on the bases of class inclusion criteria .In section of descriptive statistics ,review method is structured and in section of inferential statistics, meta-analysis method has been used and for analysis of data collected ,the CMA software tool was used.The results of research have indicated that among 58 variables studied ,the most influencial effect on strategic thinking consequences has related to strategic thinking effect on organization intelligence ,and in studying the size effect of strategic thinking as related to dynamic capabilities is 96 % and other variables in order of its effect on strategic thinking consequences from most to least are as follow:dynamic capabilities,organizational change capacity,personnel performance,intelectual capital,total quality management,crises management,customer satisfaction,organizational performance,organizational excellence,managers performance,knowledge management,complexcity of organizational structure ,competitive advantage.Accordingly the most effective variable in strategic thinking has been dynamic capabilities and the least effective variable has been competitive advantage.