This text equips readers with the strategic concepts they will need to know as we face issues such as climate change, global warming and energy availability.This thirteenth edition provides an array of timely, well-researched, and class-tested cases—nineteen of which are new or revised.
Introduce strategic management concepts using the market-leading text that sets the standard for the most complete, relevant presentation. Written by highly respected experts and prestigious scholars, Hitt/Ireland/Hoskisson's STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT: COMPETITIVENESS AND GLOBALIZATION, CONCEPTS, 9E provides an intellectually rich, yet thoroughly practical, analysis of strategic management concepts …
"The Art of the Strategist" shows clearly how superior strategy trumps other factors in almost every competitive arena. Renowned strategy expert William A. Cohen, whose considerable experience in the military, corporate, and academic sectors forms the basis for "The Art of the Strategist", presents the timeless lessons of: Commitment to objectives; Seizing and maintaining initiative; Economizat…
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"This book explores factors which impact the viability and growth of business enterprises. In particular, the role of entrepreneurship, organizational learning, and business strategy - including licensing strategy - are considered in some detail. It presents fundamental thinking about business organization and provides the conceptual framework that scholars need to understand complex business o…
There is a great deal of practice, discussion, and writing about strategy, but little investigation of the processes by which strategies actually form in organisations. This book shares the results of Mintzberg's investigation into this, using case studies drawn from business and governmental organisations.
Provides a look at how real organizations are formulating and implementing strategic change. This book is filled with vignettes, quotes, and real-world examples that illustrate the faster, more adaptive strategic planning processes. It is relevant for a range of business, governmental, and non-profit settings.
The bursting of the 'dotcom bubble' and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, have brought into question received wisdom about strategy. This volume reviews the lessons to be learnt from these events, and proposes that, as a result, strategy in the twenty-first century will have to develop along new lines. Comprising a series of outstanding contributions by experts in the field, the coll…
Modern managers and students of management are inundated with advice on how to change organizations in order to improve effectiveness. This book makes sense of all this competing advice, considering the best ways for organizations to develop their strategic capabilities in a fast-changing world.
Offers a comprehensive process model for making strategy work in the real world. This book shows why execution is even more important than many senior executives realize, and describes why businesses fail to deliver on even their most promising strategies.