Books on Economics, Business and Management - Strategy and Strategic Management Books

Strategic Change: Building a High Performance Organization - book by Sadler, P.

DESCRIPTION: This volume brings together 12 outstanding articles from Long Range Planning - The International Journal of Strategic Management dealing with different aspects of the complex process of managing strategic change. Among the issues covered are the development of strategic vision and the c... view more info and the price of this book.

Creating Value Through Acquisitions, Demergers, Buyouts and Alliances - book by Lloyd, B.

DESCRIPTION: Enormous amounts of money are made and lost through activities related to Mergers, Acquisitions, Demergers, Buyouts and Alliances. It is a major management pre-occupation in many organisations in both the private and public sectors, in almost all parts of the world. Yet there is a vast ... view more info and the price of this book.

Strategic Airport Planning - book by Caves, R.E.;Gosling, G.D.

DESCRIPTION: The role of an airport within the air transport system used to be largely incontestable. The system is now being shaped less by the concept of social service and more by market forces. Progressive liberalisation of air transport, together with trends to privatisation and globalisation a... view more info and the price of this book.

Strategic Management in Major Multinational Companies - book by Freedman, N.J.

DESCRIPTION: As the subject of strategic management grows, so has an awareness that an integrated approach to planning is necessary. Integration is a key theme of this volume, where the authors remind us of the futility of separating technology from human resource strategy or business strategy or vi... view more info and the price of this book.

International Entrepreneurship: Globalization of Emerging Businesses - book by Wright, R.W.

DESCRIPTION: The focus of this volume is the phenomenon of globalization, and specifically its relevance to and impact on small business and entrepreneurship. The works presented here stem from a pioneering, three day conference held at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, under the joint auspices... view more info and the price of this book.

Research in Strategic Management and Information Technology, Volume 2 - book by Venkatraman, N.;Henderson, J.C.

DESCRIPTION: This second volume in the series, Strategic Management and Information Technology presents a coherent set of papers that deal with the challenges of leveraging information technology for designing inter-organizational relationships. Instead of assembling a set of papers that are loosely... view more info and the price of this book.

Strategic Groups, Strategic Moves and Performance - book by Daems, H.;Thomas, H.

DESCRIPTION: This volume provides a collection of papers at the cutting edge of competitive strategy, analyzing and assessing the role and value of strategic moves and groups in industry. Theoretical models are supplemented by empirical studies on the dynamics of competitive moves and the link betwe... view more info and the price of this book.

Turning Strategy into Action - book by Irons, K.

DESCRIPTION: As few people welcome the disturbance that change brings, turning strategy into action is always going to be a difficult task. This book consists of 15 articles which have appeared in Long Range Planning. They provide a comprehensive insight into the difficulties of turning strategy int... view more info and the price of this book.

Turning Strategy into Action - book by Irons, K.

DESCRIPTION: As few people welcome the disturbance that change brings, turning strategy into action is always going to be a difficult task. This book consists of 15 articles which have appeared in Long Range Planning. They provide a comprehensive insight into the difficulties of turning strategy int... view more info and the price of this book.

Shareholder Value: Key to Corporate Development - book by Clarke, C.J.

DESCRIPTION: The 10th volume in the Best of Long Range Planning Series focuses on the role of shareholder value as a key tool to evaluating strategic options. Within limits the concept has an essential part to play in strategic management. However, the authors argue that it should not be the only ap... view more info and the price of this book.

Strategic Management in Japanese Companies - book by Kono, T.

DESCRIPTION: This volume is a comprehensive view of strategic management in Japan. The book begins with a general view of Japanese management style, and considers how this style affects strategic management. Specifically, the Japanese approach to research and development is considered. Another impor... view more info and the price of this book.

Newgames - Strategic Competition in the PC Revolution - book by Steffens, J.W.

DESCRIPTION: Newgames are fundamental changes in the conditions of competition and in the way in which we organise our businesses. They involve the creation of new concepts and new ways of thinking about the world around us, whether we be competitors or customers. Such newgame environments can be cr... view more info and the price of this book.

Best of Long Range Planning, 12-Volume Set - book by Taylor, B.

DESCRIPTION: The aim of The Best of Long Range Planning is to bring together the best articles on a particular topic from the Long Range Planning journal, so that readers wishing to study a specific aspect of planning can find an authoritative and comprehensive view of the subject, conveniently pub... view more info and the price of this book.

Strategic Issues Management: A Comprehensive Guide to Environmental Scanning - book by Stoffels, J.D.

DESCRIPTION: Scanning has long been an important element of strategic management and is continually developing. Companies need to identify emerging changes early enough to gain advantage from them. This intelligence is vital in a world of increasing change and uncertainty. Published in association w... view more info and the price of this book.

The Defense Industry in the Post-Cold War Era - book by Susman, G.I.;O'Keefe, S.

DESCRIPTION: This book focuses on the challenges faced by defense-related industries and by the US Department of Defense in the post-Cold War era: by the former in enhancing their financial well-being, and by the latter in maintaining affordable national security. It explores the conditions they fac... view more info and the price of this book.

Strategic Management in Public and Voluntary Services: A Reader - book by Bryson, J.M.

DESCRIPTION: What does strategic planning for public and non-profit purposes look like? How does strategic planning differ from other kinds of planning, and how can these different approaches be reconciled? How can strategic planning and implementation be linked effectively to create strategic manag... view more info and the price of this book.

The Strategic Management of High Technology Contracts: The Case of CERN - book by Nordberg, M.;Verbeke, A.

DESCRIPTION: High technology research laboratories are under constant pressure from the governments that support them to generate secondary utilities such as technology transfer and spin-offs. As buyers, such organisations are often used by governments to stimulate innovation by their suppliers, und... view more info and the price of this book.

Creating Value through Skill-Based Strategy and Entrepreneurial Leadership - book by Schulz, W.C.;Hofer, C.W.

DESCRIPTION: The fields of entrepreneurship and strategic management deal with the fundamental processes and forces that affect the start-up, prosperity, and survival of organizations. In both fields it is argued that a company's potential long-run performance is determined by the degree to which it... view more info and the price of this book.

Research on Negotiation in Organizations, Volume 7 - book by Bies, R.J.;Lewicki, R.J.;Sheppard, B.H.

DESCRIPTION: As we head into the new millennium, we are witnessing a growing and heightened interest among organizational scholars on the topics of conflict and negotiation. New research questions are being identified, while new theory is being applied to "old" questions. The result is exciting rese... view more info and the price of this book.

Population-Level Learning and Industry Change - book by Miner, A.S.;Anderson, P.

DESCRIPTION: Any system for giving good advice has to maintain a tension between telling the truth and not being heard, on the one hand, and telling what can be heard but is not true, on the other. In such a system, the role of academic researchers is not so much to give advice as it is to generate ... view more info and the price of this book.

Developing Strategies for Competitive Advantage - book by McNamee, P.

DESCRIPTION: This selection of papers from Long Range Planning-The International Journal of Strategic Management examines the evolution of competitive advantage over the past decade, setting out areas of major change and areas which have been less subject to change. It begins by examining how strate... view more info and the price of this book.

Advances in Qualitative Organization Research, Volume 1 - book by Wagner, J.A.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS: Editorial statement (J.A. Wagner III). Clients as a source of enjoyment on the job: how hairstylists shape demeanor and personal disclosures (R.C. Cohen, R.I. Sutton). The roles of narrative in understanding work group dynamics associated with a dramatic event: con... view more info and the price of this book.

Research on Negotiation in Organizations, Volume 6 - book by Lewicki, R.J.;Sheppard, B.H.;Bies, R.

DESCRIPTION: This volume of Research on Negotiation in Organizations focuses on three new and emerging areas in the domain of negotiation and conflict within organizations. In the first section, the problem of "deviance" within organizations is approached from a conflict and justice perspective. Ea... view more info and the price of this book.

Economics Meets Sociology in Strategic Management - book by Baum, J.A.C.;Dobbin, F.

DESCRIPTION: The last several years has witnessed a growing interaction between economists and sociologists engaged in the study of organizations' strategies. Economists and sociologists can gain real insight from these interactions. To date, however, these interactions have been to ad hoc and unfoc... view more info and the price of this book.

Economics Meets Sociology in Strategic Management - book by Baum, J.A.C.;Dobbin, F.

DESCRIPTION: The last several years has witnessed a growing interaction between economists and sociologists engaged in the study of organizations' strategies. Economists and sociologists can gain real insight from these interactions. To date, however, these interactions have been to ad hoc and unfoc... view more info and the price of this book.

Disciplinary Roots of Strategic Management - book by Baum, J.A.C.

DESCRIPTION: During the past two decades, students of strategy have promiscuously borrowed ideas from the disciplines of economics, sociology, and psychology. The result has been an abundance of models ranging from the structure-conduct-performance model to evolutionary economics, from ecological mo... view more info and the price of this book.

Management Laureates: A Collection of Autobiographical Essays - book by Bedeian, A.G.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS: Preface (A.G. Bedeian). And fate walked in (A.G. Bedeian). Is "infinite kindness": an ethical guide for management? (C. West Churchman). A surprised academic: learning from others while walking on thin ice (D.J. Hickson). The life and times of a perennial student (... view more info and the price of this book.