- 311 pages
- English
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About this book
In the twenty-first century, there is no single prescription for business strategy development, choice and implementation. The challenges facing firms, not-for-profit organizations and the public sector are significant and call for creativity, inclusivity, diversity and responsibility. The looming and deepening crisis of climate change, imperatives of the UN Sustainable Development Goals and global pandemics, have exposed the risks associated with an exclusive market worldview and the indicators that drive it such as GDP, stock market values, return on investment, executive remuneration, etc.
Sustainable Business Strategy augments and challenges existing texts to offer a progressive, challenging, decolonized and plural business strategy curriculum. Andrew Grantham presents existing business strategy theories, tools and techniques, introduces contemporary critiques, and offers fresh thinking about the application of the models and outcomes. The book takes the position that what we know about strategic analysis, choice and implementation needs updating and revision; while there remains a significant role for the market in a healthy, sustainable and future-oriented economy, strategic decisions will be mediated by regulation, broad stakeholder engagement and planetary boundaries.
This book is written to be used as a core text for students studying business or corporate strategy at undergraduate and master's levels. The author uses contemporary examples by way of illustration but seeks to guide readers to investigate the case in greater detail for themselves using references and hyperlinks. Questions and exercise sections in each chapter can be utilized in seminar classes and/or assessments.
Events around the book
Link to a De Gruyter Online Event in which the author Andrew Grantham together with Patricia Prado, Newcastle Business School discuss topics such as: How can businesses implement strategies that enable competitive growth and create shared value in a way that is truly sustainable during this era of climate change? What tools can analysts and strategists use to ensure sustainability is at the very core of business strategy?
The event will be moderated by Richard Freeman, founder and CEO of always possible:
https://youtu.be/0y6n93-6axw
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Table of contents
- Advance Praise for Sustainable Business Strategy
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Chapter 1 Strategy, context and history
- Part 1: Analysis
- Chapter 2 Macro-level analysis – world economy and industries
- Chapter 3 Micro-level analysis – inside the firm
- Chapter 4 Stakeholder approaches to strategic analysis and strategy formulation
- Part 2: Choice
- Chapter 5 The Tools of prescriptive choice
- Chapter 6 Growth through diversification, merger, acquisition, joint venture and strategic alliance
- Chapter 7 Strategic management of portfolios
- Chapter 8 Internationalization
- Chapter 9 Innovation
- Chapter 10 Financial evaluation of strategy and investment for sustainability
- Part 3: Implementation
- Chapter 11 Structures
- Chapter 12 Change management and leadership
- Chapter 13 Turnaround and monitoring
- Chapter 14 Scenarios: Do nothing, adapt or build a new vibrant and sustainable economy
- Bibliography
- List of abbreviations
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Index