Author : Ralph D. Stacey
Publisher : Pearson Education
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 39,16 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780273708117
This textbook challenges the view that organizations succeed when they operate in states of stability, harmony and consensus. The author argues that an understanding of organizational dynamics leads to a greater insight into strategic management.
Author : Ralph D. Stacey
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 49,67 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
This textbook challenges the view that organizations succeed when they operate in states of stability, harmony and consensus. The author argues that an understanding of organizational dynamics leads to a greater insight into strategic management.
Author : Bernard Burnes
Publisher : Pearson Education
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 17,82 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780273711742
Managing Change is written for students on modules covering management, strategy and organisational change as part of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. --Book Jacket.
Author : Ralph D. Stacey
Publisher : Financial Times/Prentice Hall
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,57 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Management
ISBN : 9780273725596
Renowned for its unconventional thinking, Strategic Management and Organisational Dynamics continues to be a refreshing alternative for students and lecturers of strategic management specifically looking for 'something different'. Stacey challenges the conceptual orthodoxy of planned strategy, focusing instead on the influence of more complex and unstable forces in the development of strategy. This book explores and challenges ways of thinking about strategy and organisational dynamics and raises questions about systemic and responsive processes, utilising insights from the complexity sciences. The purpose of this book is to assist people to make sense of their own experience of life in organisations, to explore their own thinking and to pay attention to and so what they do. Ideal for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate study, this critically detailed account deals with up-to-the minute issues, raising the challenge of complexity within practice and theory. As such it remains unique amongst strategic management text books.
Author : Martha A. Gephart
Publisher : Springer
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 42,43 MB
Release : 2015-12-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3662486423
This book discusses the successes and challenges of leveraging organizational learning in effective strategy development and execution. The authors introduce a framework that helps organizations develop core capabilities to enable them to shift direction rapidly and proactively shape future environments. They also offer a wide selection of cases to illustrate this framework. While some cases highlight fundamental strategic change over time, others are snapshots of mechanisms gradually put in place to jointly optimize learning and performance. There is no one best or right way to leverage strategic organizational learning; different practices may lead to the same outcome and similar practices may lead to different outcomes. The system dynamics underlying such learning — not the simple adoption of one or other practice — are key to success in institutionalizing a performance-based learning approach.
Author : Ralph D. Stacey
Publisher : Financial Times/Prentice Hall
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 26,39 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
This is done by emphasising the importance of narrative, conversation and learning from one's own experience as the central means by which we can gain understanding and knowledge of strategy in organisations."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Raymond E. Miles
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 49,70 MB
Release : 2003-03-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0804767173
"Books and articles come and go, endlessly. But a few do stick, and this book is such a one. Organizational Strategy, Structure, and Process broke fresh ground in the understanding of strategy at a time when thinking about strategy was still in its early days, and it has not been displaced since." —David J. Hickson, Emeritus Professor of International Management & Organization, University of Bradford School of Management Originally published in 1978, Organizational Strategy, Structure, and Process became an instant classic, as it bridged the formerly separate fields of strategic management and organizational behavior. In this Stanford Business Classics reissue, noted strategy scholar Donald Hambrick provides a new introduction that describes the book's contribution to the field of organization studies. Miles and Snow also contribute new introductory material to update the book's central concepts and themes. Organizational Strategy, Structure, and Process focuses on how organizations adapt to their environments. The book introduced a theoretical framework composed of a dynamic adaptive cycle and an empirically based strategy typology showing four different types of adaptation. This framework helped to define subsequent research by other scholars on important topics such as configurational analysis, organizational fit, strategic human resource management, and multi-firm network organizations.
Author : Kim Warren
Publisher : Wiley
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 21,38 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780471899495
This book offers a practical, fact-based approach to explain how enterprises deliver performance over time. Rigorous methods explain how to quantify the growth, decline and interdependence within the organisation's resources and capabilities as well as the continuous interactions with competitors and other external factors. These methods create clear and practical pictures of the strategic architecture driving earnings and other performance outcomes, not just for commercial firms, but for non-profit cases too. Management is then well-equipped to answer three crucial questions in their strategy development : why has the business performed as it has to date? where is performance headed in the future if we carry on as now? and how can we alter this future for the better? The book provides the basis for an entire course on the time-based perspective on competitive strategy, connecting strongly to established static frameworks. Alternatively it offers a vital missing component for existing courses in strategy and general management, as well as a key reference text for professionals in corporate development, consulting and business analysis.
Author : C. Rodgers
Publisher : Springer
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 35,44 MB
Release : 2006-10-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0230625215
This book places everyday talk and role-modelling interactions at the forefront of an alternative change-leadership agenda, and introduces a number of practical approaches to help line managers and organizational specialists deliver this agenda more successfully. It is essential reading for organizational practitioners at all levels.
Author : Martin Kunc
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 50,26 MB
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1118907183
Defines common ground at the interface of strategy and management science and unites the topics with an original approach vital for strategy students, researchers and managers Strategic Analytics: Integrating Management Science and Strategy combines strategy content with strategy process through the lenses of management science, masterfully defining the common ground that unites both fields. Each chapter starts with the perspective of a certain strategy problem, such as competition, but continues with an explanation of the strategy process using management science tools such as simulation. Facilitating the process of strategic decision making through the lens of management science, the author integrates topics that are usually in conflict for MBAs: strategy and quantitative methods. Strategic Analytics features multiple international real-life case studies and examples, business issues for further research and theory review questions and exercises at the end of each chapter. Strategic Analytics starts by introducing readers to strategic management. It then goes on to cover: managerial capabilities for a complex world; politics, economy, society, technology, and environment; external environments known as exogenous factors (PESTE) and endogenous factors (industry); industry dynamics; industry evolution; competitive advantage; dynamic resource management; organisational design; performance measurement system; the life cycle of organisations from start-ups; maturity for maintaining profitability and growth; and finally, regeneration. Developed from the author's own Strategy Analytics course at Warwick Business School, personal experience as consultant, and in consultation with other leading scholars Uses management science to facilitate the process of strategic decision making Chapters structured with chapter objectives, summaries, short case studies, tables, student exercises, references and management science models Accompanied by a supporting website Aimed at both academics and practitioners, Strategic Analytics is an ideal text for postgraduates and advanced undergraduate students of business and management.
