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Tracking strategies : toward a general theory
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.
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- 9780199228508
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- xv, 405 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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- [POL-SSS-67]
Thinking strategically in turbulent times : an inside view of strategy making
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.
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- 0765612518
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 170 p.) : ill.
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- [POL-SSS-65]
Strategy in transition
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…
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- 1405118490
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- ix, 307 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
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- Strategic Management Society book series.
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- [POL-SSS-61]
Strategy and capability : sustaining organizational change
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.
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- 0631228454
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- xv, 201 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
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- Management, organizations, and business series
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- [POL-SSS-54]
Strategic rivalries in world politics : position, space and conflict escalation
"International conflict is neither random nor inexplicable. It is highly structured by antagonisms between a relatively small set of states that regard each other as rivals. Examining the 173 strategic rivalries in operation throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this book identifies the differences rivalries make in the probability of conflict escalation and analyzes how they inter…
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- 9780521881340
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- xiv, 314 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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- [POL-SSS-51]
Making twenty-first-century strategy : an introduction to modern national sec…
"This new work defines national security strategy, its objectives, the problems it confronts, and the influences that constrain and facilitate its development and implementation in a post-Cold War, post-9/11 environment. The authors note that making and implementing national strategy centers on risk management and present a model for assessing strategic risks and the process for allocating limi…
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- 1585661600
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 268 p.)
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- Making 21st century strategy : Introduction to modern national security processes and problems
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- [POL-SSS-33]
Making strategy work : leading effective execution and change
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.
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- 013146745X
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- xxi, 384 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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- [POL-SSS-32]
Learning to think strategically
Presents an account of the relationship between strategic thinking and the learning process involved taking learning from the academic to the everyday. This book is a primer on how successful strategists learn to think strategically. It traces the history of strategy, differentiates strategic thinking from planning.
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- 9780750678797
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- xxi, 285 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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- New frontiers in learning.
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- [POL-SSS-31]
Images of strategy
Images of Strategy develops an innovative and multi-faceted approach to strategic management which will enable students to use and develop interesting and wide-ranging applications alongside some of the latest ideas and analysis. It does so by asking if we really are looking in at the same static object when we look at strategy and suggesting approaches to strategy as fluid and complex. Images …
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 0631226095
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- viii, 450 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
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- [POL-SSS-28]
From resource allocation to strategy
Drawing on the work of leading experts in strategy, this collection provides a clear understanding of what strategy is and how it affects organizations. The work combines some of the latest thinking on resource allocation, with models designed for actually building the systems.
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- 0199277443
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- xvii, 482 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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- [POL-SSS-23]
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