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Get 12 months FREE access to an interactive eBook* when you buy the paperback! (Print paperback version only, ISBN 9781473938458 )
Revised, re-worked and with the addition of new chapters, the 2nd edition is an easy to use tool allowing readers to switch from web resources to the print text and back again, opening windows on the world of strategy through cases that are vibrant and engaged, digital links that allow them to explore topics in more detail and video and other media that encourage relating theory to practice.
As with many contemporary strategy texts there is coverage of the key areas but these all take on a critical slant in the new edition of this book. There are also some surprises - discussions that are less evident in conventional strategy texts such as strategy in not-for-profit organizations; strategy and process theories; strategy and globalization; strategy and organizational politics and decision-making as well as the futures of strategy.
The new edition is complimented by a free Interactive e-book* featuruing videos, cases and other relevant links, allowing access on the go and encouraging learning and retention whatever the reading or learning style.
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List of contents
1. Strategy: Theory & Practice - An Introduction
2. Strategy, Competitive Forces and Positioning
3. Strategy, Resources and Capabilities
4. Strategy and Innovation
5. Strategy: Make or Buy?
6. Strategy and Alliances
7. Strategy: Going Global
8. Strategy and Corporate Governance
9. Strategy as Process
10. Strategy as Practice
11. Strategy and Organizational Politics
12. Strategy and Strategic Change
13. The Futures of Strategic Management
About the author
Stewart Clegg is a prolific publisher of several hundred articles in leading academic journals in strategy, social science, management and organization theory; is also the author and editor of about fifty books, as well as a Fellow of the British Academy of Social Sciences, a Distinguished Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management, a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, and the recipient of significant awards from the American Academy of Management for his contributions to management theory and practice.
Summary
Providing a fresh perspective on strategy from an organizational perspective through a discursive approach, this book includes conventional strategy texts such as not-for-profit organizations, process theories, globalization, organizational politics and decision-making as well as the futures of strategy.
