In recent years, the term strategic flexibility has become a common in the literature. However it does not make easier to comprehend them. The author argued that the difficulty stems from the existence of two perspective, formation and transformation that compete one another when applying strategy flexibility ideas. Further investigation shows a contrast characther between these two perspectiveattributed to their patern, position and plan. Based on combination on those three attributes, four generic subtypesof strategic flexibility ideas has been demonstrated through the mapping of 100 writers' idea. The map also shows a perspective shifts from formation to transformation, begining at the last decade . A strong resemblance to the issue of determinism versus vouluntarism and macro versus micro level in literature of organization theory and management, leads to conclucion that the underlying concept of perspective-based strategic flexibility is an ability of applying the dialectical views.