| Strategy type | Strategy origin | Grade of deliberation/ emergence of strategy | Strategy rod | Flexibility based on | 
 
   
   | Planned | Formal plans from the central leadership | Most deliberate | Common formal plans | - | 
 
   
   | Entrepreneurial | The central vision of a single leader | Relatively deliberate but can emerge | Entrepreneur’s vision | Emerging new opportunities | 
 
   
   | Ideological | Shared beliefs | Rather deliberate | The collective vision of all actors | Misunderstandings of a collective vision | 
 
   
   | Umbrella | Partial control of actions by leaders | Partly deliberate, partly emergent and deliberately emergent | Strategic boundaries defined by leaders | Initiatives of actors | 
 
   
   | Process | Process | Partly deliberate, partly emergent, and deliberately emergent | Key processes in the organization | Freedom of actors to fill the process content | 
 
   
   | Unconnected | Enclaves in organization | Organizationally emergent | Patterns shared by most actors | Important actors out-of-control | 
 
   
   | Consensus | Consensus | Rather emergent | Mutual adjustment of common patterns without common intentions | Freedom of personal or group actions that follow the consensus | 
 
   
   | Imposed | Environment | Most emergent | - | Uncertainty of environment |