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This highly popular introduction to strategic management has now been revised to take account of the latest developments in the field.
- New edition of a highly popular introduction to strategic management.
- Provides a clear framework for understanding the issues in corporate strategy, supported by current case examples.
- Revised to take account of the latest development in the field.
- Now features twelve new cases.
- Includes new chapters on issues relating to the resource-based view of the firm, innovation, learning, and the 'new economy'.
- Includes a new concluding chapter looking at present and future issues in strategic management.
- Continues to combine the latest management concepts with and emphasis on current business applications and implementation.
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Table of contents
- FIGURES
- TABLES
- EXHIBITS
- PREFACE
- 1 INTRODUCTION: WHAT IS STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT?
- What is Strategy?
- Two Approaches to Strategy
- Elements of Strategy
- Our Model of Strategy
- The Growth Vector
- Mission Statements
- Identity
- Theory of the Business
- Strategy Evaluation
- The Book in Brief
- 2 SITUATION ANALYSIS: THE FIRM AND ITS ENVIRONMENT
- What do we mean by ‘Environment’?
- How does one Analyse the Environment?
- The Nature of the Environment
- Structural Analysis of the Competitive Environment
- Identifying the Firm’s Competitive Position
- The Internal Environment: Resources and Capabilities
- SWOT Analysis
- Conclusion
- 3 BUSINESS-LEVEL STRATEGY
- Strategic Choice
- Competitive Strategies
- Gaining Competitive Advantage
- Competitive Advantage through Resources and Capabilities
- Market Turbulence and Hypercompetition
- Dealing with the Opposition
- Conclusion
- 4 CORPORATE-LEVEL STRATEGY
- Strategic Considerations
- Directional Strategies
- Methods of Development
- Portfolio Strategies
- Parenting Strategies
- Selecting Appropriate Strategies
- Corporate Objectives
- 5 ORGANIZATION AND STRATEGY
- Organizational Issues and Strategy
- Peters and Waterman’s Excellent Organizations
- Japanese Organizations and Strategic Management
- Strategic Human Resource Management
- Magic Kingdoms?
- Critical Voices
- New Perspectives on Excellence: Built to Last and Good to Great
- Organization Design: Strategy and Structure
- Structuring for Complexity
- Parenting
- Competition and Co-operation
- 6 THE MANAGEMENT OF STRATEGIC CHANGE
- Triggers for Change
- Radical Change
- The Incremental Approach to Change
- Radical and Incremental Change Compared
- Strategy Subsystems
- Managing Change
- The Innovating Organization
- Organizational Development and Strategy
- Change in Service Environments
- Strategic Management and Leadership
- Leaders on Leadership
- Leadership means Change
- 7 THE FUTURE OF STRATEGY: COMPETENCE AND RESPONSIBILITY
- Competence
- Competence, Organization and Human Resources
- Future Excellence
- The Future of Strategy
- Software Wars: Davids v. Goliath
- Strategy and Responsibility
- Epilogue
- Final Thought
- 8 CASE STUDIES
- What Business are we in? Boots: the Journey to Well-being
- The Sad Fate of the Dodo
- Home Depot in the midst of Transformation
- The National Health Service: a case of too many trusts?
- Nokia: a Great Company in a Turbulent Market
- Rexam: a Classic Transformation
- Sainsbury: Stuck in the Middle Again
- Sony: Idei’s Vision
- GE: the Leadership Practices of Jack Welch
- Xerox: Capabilities Discovered but not Developed
- REFERENCES
- INDEX