Managing Change for Competitive Success

Informationen zum Autor Andrew Pettigrew is Professor of Organizational Behaviour and Director of the Centre for Corporate Strategy and Change, University of Warwick, UK. Richard Whipp is Professor of Human Resource Management at Cardiff Business School, UK. Both authors have written widely on the management of strategic change. Klappentext This extremely successful book, already in use on courses in hardback, is now being made available in paperback. Based on a major in-depth study of four UK industry sectors, the book provides an authoritative and searching analysis of how UK companies manage strategic change and how it affects their competitive performance. The authors focus on the key question of why firms operating in the same industry produce varying performances over time. As a result they have been able to pinpoint the differences in the way that change is managed from business to business and identify the common problems across industry sectors. Managing Change for Competitive Success Explores both high and low performance at company level Stresses that managing change is a long-term process requiring continual adjustment to uncertainty and complexity Uses numerous practical case studies in explaining performance differences Combining theory with real practice Managing Change for Competitive Success is an essential resource for all students of Strategic Management. Zusammenfassung This extremely successful book! already in use on courses in hardback! is now being made available in paperback. Based on a major in--depth study of four UK industry sectors! the book provides an authoritative and searching analysis of how UK companies manage strategic change and how it effects their competitive performance. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures. Introduction. 1. Competitiveness and Managing Change. 2. A Changing Backcloth: New Rules and Relationships. 3. Understanding the Environment. 4. Leading Change. 5. Linking Strategic and Operational Change. 6. Human Resources as Assets and Liabilities. 7. Coherence. 8. Conclusion. References. Index. ...

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• Authors: a Pettigrew, Andrew Pettigrew, Andrew (University of Bath) Whipp Pettigrew, Andrew M Pettigrew, Andrew M. Pettigrew, Andrew M. Whipp Pettigrew, Andrew Whipp Pettigrew, PETTIGREW ANDREW M WHIPP RICHARD, Richard Whipp, Richard Professor Whipp, Whipp Richard
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.09.1993
• EAN: 9780631191421
• ISBN: 978-0-631-19142-1
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Esrc Competitiveness; ESRC Competitiveness
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Strategic Planning, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management, United Kingdom, Great Britain, business strategy, Management & management techniques, Business competition, Industry & industrial studies, Management and management techniques, Industry and industrial studies