Strategy and Organization: Realizing Strategic Management

ISBN-13: 9780521011945 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 256 str.

Loizos Heracleous

Opis

Examining some of the new and emerging issues in strategic management, Loizos Heracleous presents an original approach to the established ideas of strategy. He emphasizes the importance of organizational culture in realizing strategy and applies this concept to such important new areas as corporate governance and the impact of the Internet on business organization and activity. Combining original research with thorough surveys of the literature, the book is intended for MBA level students, researchers and professionals.

Recenzje

'This book has all the things I admire in good organizational scholarship: it is grounded in a process epistemology, it explicitly focuses on agency and praxis, and adopts a dynamic view of how organizations behave and strategies are made.' Haridimos Tsoukas, The George D. Mavros Research Professor of Organization and Management, Athens Laboratory of Business Administration (ALBA), Greece and Professor of Organization Theory and Behaviour, University of Strathclyde Editor-in-Chief of Organization Studies

Spis treści

Part I. Bases of Strategic Management: 1. The strategic management field; 2. An organizational action view of strategic management; 3. Strategic thinking or strategic planning?; 4. Leadership and the board of directors; Part II. Realising Strategy: 5. The complexities of strategy implementation; 6. Organizational culture and strategic change processes; 7. The role of organizational discourse in understanding and managing strategic change; 8. Strategic change processes: an organization development approach; Part III. Current Themes and Applications: 9. State ownership, privatization and performance; 10. Does corporate governance make a difference to organizational performance?; 11. Types of inter-organizational networks and the strategic roles of directors; 12. Organizing for the future.