Studying Strategy
Publisher: Bookboon.com
Published: 2013
ISBN-13: 9788776814205
Table of contents: title: Content; title: 1. A Starting Point For Our Thinking; title: 1.1. Whittington’s Schools of Strategic Thought – Philosophies of Strategy; title: 1.2. Classical Approaches; title: 1.3. Processual Approaches; title: 1.4. Evolutionary Approaches; title: 1.5. Systemic Approaches; title: 1.6. Reflecting On ‘Different’ Schools Of Strategy; title: 1.7. Summary; title: 2. Strategic Management: Models And Ideas; title: 2.1. Profit Maximization; title: 2.2. Models and Paradigms; title: 2.3. Strategic Models; title: 2.4. Scanning Models: PEST Analysis; title: 2.5. Scanning Models: SWOT Analysis; title: 2.6. Mission Statements; title: 2.7. Time Based Models: Industry/Organisational Lifecycle; title: 2.8. Growth Models: BCG Matrix; title: 2.9. Growth Models: Ansoff’s Growth Matrix; title: 2.10. Strategy Structure; title: 2.11. BPR – Business Process Engineering; title: 2.12. Summary; title: 2.13. Summary Points; title: 3. Strategic Management: Approaches And Methods; title: 3.1. Strategic Analysis, Choice and Implementation; title: 3.2. Competitive Strategy; title: 3.3. Value; title: 3.4. Chaos and Complexity – Ordinary and Extraordinary Management; title: 3.5. Summary; title: 3.6. Summary Points; title: 4. Influences on Action: Of Lobsters, Boiling Frogs and Nappies; title: 4.1. Prologue; title: 4.2. Recipes; title: 4.3. Archetypes; title: 4.4. Institutional Isomorphism; title: 4.5. Growth Cycles; title: 4.6. Life Cycles; title: 4.7. Summary; title: 4.8. Summary Points; title: 5. Resource Based Strategy; title: 5.1. Prologue; title: 5.2. What Is A Key Resource?; title: 5.3. The Emergence of Resource Based Strategy; title: 5.4. Core Competence; title: 5.5. Key Assets; title: 5.6. Resource Networks; title: 5.7. Interconnections And Embeddedness; title: 5.8. Summary; title: 5.9. Summary Points; title: 6. Global And International Strategic Management; title: 6.1. Prologue; title: 6.2. The Eclectic Paradigm: Ownership, Location and Internalisation; title: 6.3. Why Globalise?; title: 6.4. The Single Diamond Model of Global Competitiveness; title: 6.5. The Double Diamond Model of Global Competitiveness; title: 6.6. Strategy, Resources and Knowledge; title: 6.7. Cultural Dimensions; title: 6.8. Summary; title: 6.9. Summary Points; title: 7. Strategic Action: Culture, Change And Leadership; title: 7.1. Change; title: 7.2. Model Of Culture; title: 7.3. Modes Of Culture; title: 7.4. The Embodiment Of Leadership – The Leader; title: 7.5. Why Change Culture?; title: 7.6. On Culture And Change; title: 7.7. On Implementing Change; title: 7.8. Culture Change; title: 7.9. Summary; title: 7.10. Summary Points; title: 8. Public Sector Strategic Management; title: 8.1. Prologue; title: 8.2. What is the Public Sector?; title: 8.3. Trajectory Of The Public Sector; title: 8.4. Public Sector Management; title: 8.5. Environment of Public Sector Strategy; title: 8.6. Reflection on Public/Private Sector Differences; title: 8.7. Something Borrowed; title: 8.8. Change; title: 8.9. Summary; title: 8.10. Summary Points; title: 9. Endnotes