Öz The purpose of this study is to make a review of the ten strategic management schools accepted as having been influential on the strategic management literature, with reference to the resource people and studies, basic premises, key concepts and main strategy suggestions and especially focus on the features of the configuration school that helps us conceive and explain the different versions of the strategy formulation process. In this context, reference will be made to the studies in the current strategic management literature that rely on the concepts of the configuration school and the future orientations of the strategic management dicipline will be discussed