Opening Strategy: Professional Strategists and Practice Change, 1960 to Today

ISBN-13: 9780198738893 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 336 str.

Richard Whittington

Opis

Through interviews with corporate strategists and eminent consultants at leading companies around the world, this book recounts the origins and development of Strategy as a profession, and explores how strategic management and open strategy have become important practices in contemporary organizations.

Recenzje

Opening Strategy is a masterful demonstration for how a frugal choice and rigorous application of theoretical concepts turn a historical narrative into a more generalized argument about practive change in professional fields. Maximillian Heimstädt, Weizenbaum Institute

O autorze

Richard Whittington is Professor of Strategic Management at the Saïd Business School and New College, University of Oxford. He has authored, co-authored or contributed to ten books, including the best-selling textbook Exploring Strategy (12th edition, Pearson, 2019) and the Cambridge Handbook of Open Strategy (2019). He is an associate editor of the Strategic Management Journal and has co-edited six special issues in leading journals. He was previously a board member of the Strategic Management Society and past Chair of the Strategizing Activities and Practices interest group at the Academy of Management. His current research focuses on strategy-as-practice and 'open strategy'.