This work on strategic management is part of a series which aims to offer the equivalent in textbook form to the short course in management education and training by detailing the fundamental principles and techniques of the subject in one volume.

Essence of Strategic Management

Business & Money

Bowman, Cliff

Management & Leadership

Pearson P T R

: This book provides a comprehensive blueprint for building a corporate strategy. "Where should we compete? What products should we compete with? How will we gain sustainable competitive advantage in the s we choose?" These strategic questions are at the heart of building a corporate strategy, and any company that intends to remain successful must find the right answers. The Essence of Competitive Strategy will help. It's a clear, comprehensive guide to understanding where a company is and where it needs to go. Learn how to analyze how a company and the competition are viewed by customers. Understand the strategic options available for innovation and lower costs. Given a strategic direction, evaluate the comparative risk of several courses of action, and determine which partners may be available to help achieve a goal. Invaluable for managers on short courses in corporate strategy, competitive strategy, business policy and strategic management; for MBA and other students; as reference material for managers' bookshelves, and for aspiring managers wishing to improve their knowledge and skills.

Essence of Competitive Strategy, The

Faulkner, David

Designed to help experienced students and managers who are involved in, or who will be involved in, trying to debate their firm's strategy. The emphasis is on trying to answer some fundamental questions about the firm's future direction. In addressing these questions, some analytical techniques and frameworks are explained. The emphasis is on the quality of the strategy debate, and the concepts explained are "tools for thought", none of which can give the right answer to the strategy problem, but all of which can help students and executives structure a strategy debate.

Strategy In Practice (2nd Edition)

PRENTICE/HALL

The book describes what it means to say the world is complex and explores what that means for managers, policy makers and individuals. The first part of the book is about the theory and ideas of complexity. This is explained in a way that is thorough but not mathematical. It compares differing approaches, and also provides a historical perspective, showing how such thinking has been around since the beginning of civilisation. It emphasises the difference between a complexity worldview and the dominant mechanical worldview that underpins much of current management practice. It defines the complexity worldview as recognising the world is interconnected, shaped by history and the particularities of context. The comparison of the differing approaches to modelling complexity is unique in its depth and accessibility. The second part of the book uses this lens of complexity to explore issues in the fields of management, strategy, economics, and international development. It also explores how to facilitate others to recognise the implications of adopting a complex rather than a mechanical worldview and suggests methods of research to explore systemic, path-dependent emergent aspects of situations. The authors of this book span both science and management, academia and practice, thus the explanations of science are authoritative and yet the examples of changing how you live and work in the world are real and accessible. The aim of the book is to bring alive what complexity is all about and to illustrate the importance of loosening the grip of a modernist worldview with its hope for prediction, certainty and control.

Embracing Complexity: Strategic Perspectives for an Age of Turbulence

Boulton, Jean G.

Allen, Peter M.

Oxford University Press

Aimed at both students of management and practising managers, this work focuses firstly on business level competitive strategy and then uses the ideas and insights gained at business level to explore corporate level strategy.

Competitive and Corporate Strategy

Irwin Professional Publishing,U.S.

This major text for undergraduate and MBA courses in Corporate Strategy and Business Policy brings a new sophisticated strategic framework to the material it covers. It incorporates a critical review of recent techniques of external and internal appraisal, strategic option generation and of selection and evaluation as well as covering a wide range of current issues.

Strategic Management

Asch, David C.

Red Globe Press

A collection which is part of the Open University integrated teaching system, this book is designed to evoke the critical understanding of students. There are readings covering the strategic management process, strategy formulation and managing strategic change.

Readings in Strategic Management

Macmillan Education

This is presented in a way designed to stimulate the student's imagination Each chapter starts with a case study and the theory is drawn from it, helping students relate theory to practice. It provides a framework for diagnosing, intervening and developing organizations, people and workplace processes and then applies these frameworks to a range of organizational settings to show how widely they can be used.

Management in Practice: A Framework for Managing Organizational Change

Jarrett, Michael G.

Butterworth-Heinemann

Extraordinary performance from ordinary people is a must read for the high performing manager with the ambition to reach corporate leadership status. The book is as practical as it is exciting. How to succeed and which personal qualities are required from those who display the capability for great responsibility, are the themes that run throughout. The book focuses on both the key value adding activities and disciplines for driving through change and the styles of corporate leaders that attract success Extraordinary performance from ordinary people highlights how the leaders of the company, as a corporate team, can adopt and adapt the four value creating styles. It emphasises how to recognise which leadership framework suits the challenges of particular competitive environments. This insight nurtures a confidence to act decisively adopting an approach to communication which harnesses the energies of the organisation to achieve stretching performance targets. It concentrates on how leaders make a difference by what they do. Diagnostic models that show what really works and under which circumstances are core to this book. * Shows how a connected and aligned team can be positively committed to delivering the vision of the business and how to add value in corporate leadership * Provides a practical framework for developing the key leadership roles in any size and type of organization

Extraordinary Performance from Ordinary People

WARD, Keith

Kakabadse, Andrew

Routledge

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Essence of Strategic Management

Essence of Competitive Strategy, The

Strategy In Practice (2nd Edition)

Embracing Complexity: Strategic Perspectives for an Age of Turbulence

Embracing Complexity: Strategic Perspectives for an Age of Turbulence

Competitive and Corporate Strategy

Strategic Management

Readings in Strategic Management

Management in Practice: A Framework for Managing Organizational Change

Extraordinary Performance from Ordinary People