Book Summaries: Strategy, Complexity and Change Management
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By Patrick Reinmoeller | 08/05/2012
Volberda, Morgan and Reinmoeller have joined with Hitt, Ireland and Hoskisson to develop a truly landmark strategic management textbook that is ideally suited for courses in Europe, the Middle East and Africa as well as other global markets. With a new process perspective to supplement the trademark integrated approach - Strategic Management: Competitiveness and Globalization - provides the most comprehensive and thorough coverage of strategic management now available in the market.
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By Peter Allen, Steve Maguire, Bill McKelvey | 30/03/2012
The first substantive scholarly work to provide a map of the state-of-the-art research in the growing field emerging at the intersection of complexity science and management studies. Edited and written by internationally-respected scholars from management and related disciplines, the Handbook is a reference source for understanding the implications of complexity science for management research and practice.
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By Mark Jenkins, Ken Pasternak & Richard West | 31/05/2009
Can you imagine your organisation as a Ferrari or a BMW or your management team as a pit crew? Inspirational and instructional guidance based on teamwork performance in Formula 1 motor sport.
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By Mark Jenkins, Nardine Collier and Véronique Ambrosini | 11/05/2007
Advanced Strategic Management builds on prior knowledge of strategic decision making and is intended to complement general strategy texts by providing an umbrella view of the multi-dimensional nature of strategic management. Featuring expert contributions, the discussion of each perspective is enhanced by empirical case examples.
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By Thomas Lawton, Sydney Finkelstein and Charles Harvey | 01/11/2006
The insights, concepts, tools and techniques needed for effective strategies for corporate growth and transformation. The central idea is that of breakout ,defined as a forceful emergence from a restrictive form or position.
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By Julia Balogun and Veronica Hope-Hailey | 30/11/2003
A practical and comprehensive diagnostic framework which can be used to analyse key features of the change context and to select and design appropriate strategic change. A strategic toolkit for immediate application.
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By Tony Grundy & Laura Brown | 01/01/2002
Valuable reading for any strategic manager. The book describes the elements of the strategic process and provides a plethora of tools and techniques with which to facilitate strategic thinking and to manage those processes, together with a number of case studies to illustrate various aspects of that process in practice.
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By Tony Grundy and Laura Brown | 01/09/2001
Strategic Project Management is about managing complex projects by combining business strategy and project management techniques in order to implement business strategy and deliver organisational breakthroughs. It is liberally enlivened with case studies from BMW, British Rail, ICI, the Premier League and Prudential and with stories from the authors lives. It concludes with many useful checklists.
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By Cliff Bowman | 01/02/1998
Designed to help experienced students and managers who are involved in, or who will be involved in, trying to debate their firms strategy. The emphasis is on trying to answer some fundamental questions about the firms future direction. In addressing these questions, some analytical techniques and frameworks are explained.
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By Mark Jenkins | 01/07/1997
This book sets out to enable managers to think strategically about their customers. It encourages managers to ask themselves thought provoking and challenging questions on how they perceive their customers, and take action accordingly.
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