Cambridge Handbook Of Open Strategy

Author : David Seidl,Richard Whittington,Georg von Krogh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108632669

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Cambridge Handbook of Open Strategy by David Seidl,Richard Whittington,Georg von Krogh Pdf

The first of its kind, this Handbook mobilizes research on an emerging phenomenon, Open Strategy. As new technologies and societal pressures have precipitated employees, business partners, shareholder groups and other stakeholders into deeper involvement in strategy, various Open Strategy initiatives now promise greater transparency and inclusion in the strategy process. Providing a wide-ranging introduction to the concept of Open Strategy and its various dimensions, the chapters of this Handbook detail key practices, discuss the roles of technology, and propose various theoretical perspectives for researching Open Strategy. Finally, this Handbook addresses the ongoing challenges and politics involved in Open Strategy. It will appeal to organization and strategy scholars, master's students in business and management, practitioners, such as consultants and strategy staff in established firms, and anyone concerned with new trends in strategy development and its implications for organizations and their members.

Author : Christian Stadler,Julia Hautz,Kurt Matzler,Stephan Friedrich von den Eichen
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262046114

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Open Strategy by Christian Stadler,Julia Hautz,Kurt Matzler,Stephan Friedrich von den Eichen Pdf

How smart companies are opening up strategic initiatives to involve front-line employees, experts, suppliers, customers, entrepreneurs, and even competitors. Why are some of the world’s most successful companies able to stay ahead of disruption, adopting and implementing innovative strategies, while others struggle? It’s not because they hire a new CEO or expensive consultants but rather because these pioneering companies have adopted a new way of strategizing. Instead of keeping strategic deliberations within the C-Suite, they open up strategic initiatives to a diverse group of stakeholders—front-line employees, experts, suppliers, customers, entrepreneurs, and even competitors. Open Strategy presents a new philosophy, key tools, step-by-step advice, and fascinating case studies—from companies that range from Barclays to Adidas—to guide business leaders in this groundbreaking approach to strategy. The authors—business-strategy experts from both academia and management consulting—introduce tools for each of the three stages of strategy-making: idea generation, plan formulation, and implementation. These are digital tools (including strategy contests), which allow the widest participation; hybrid digital/in-person tools (including a “nightmare competitor challenge”); a workshop tool that gamifies the business model development process; and tools that help companies implement and sustain open strategy efforts. Open strategy has an astonishing track record: a survey of 200 business leaders shows that although open-strategy techniques were deployed for only 30 percent of their initiatives, those same initiatives generated 50 percent of their revenues and profits. This book offers a roadmap for this kind of success.

Author : Richard Whittington
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191059148

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Opening Strategy by Richard Whittington Pdf

Strategy is becoming more 'open' - more transparent and more inclusive. Opening Strategy tells the story of how corporate strategists and strategy consultants have worked since the middle of the last century to open up the strategy process. First strategic planning, then strategic management, and now 'open strategy' have all brought more people into the strategy process and provided more strategic information, for the benefit of both business and society at large. Informed by interviews with corporate strategists and consultants at leading firms such as General Electric and McKinsey & Co, and drawing on the historical archives of strategy's pioneers, this book provides vivid insights into the trials and tribulations of practice change in the strategy profession. Above all, it stresses the hard work of the little recognized and sometimes eccentric individuals who have been leaders in practice change. By building on a wide range of illustrations, covering both successes and failures, the book draws out general lessons for practice innovation in strategy. Those studying the topic will be able to set standard strategy techniques in historical and social context and develop new areas for investigation, while practising executives and consultants should gain a sense of how to innovate in strategy - and how not to.

Author : Damon Golsorkhi,Linda Rouleau,David Seidl,Eero Vaara
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781139490740

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Cambridge Handbook of Strategy as Practice by Damon Golsorkhi,Linda Rouleau,David Seidl,Eero Vaara Pdf

The Cambridge Handbook of Strategy as Practice provides a comprehensive overview of an emerging and growing stream of research in strategic management. An international team of scholars has been assembled to produce a systematic introduction to the various epistemological, methodological and theoretical aspects of the strategy-as-practice approach. This perspective explores and explains the contribution that strategizing makes to daily operations at all levels of an organization. Moving away from a disembodied and asocial study of firm assets, technologies and practices, the strategy-as-practice approach breaks down many of the traditional paradigmatic boundaries in strategy to investigate who the strategists are, what strategists do, how they do it, and what the consequences or outcomes of their actions are. Including a number of detailed empirical studies, the handbook will be an essential guide for future research in this vibrant field.

Author : Damon Golsorkhi,Linda Rouleau,David Seidl,Eero Vaara
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107421497

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Cambridge Handbook of Strategy as Practice by Damon Golsorkhi,Linda Rouleau,David Seidl,Eero Vaara Pdf

Now in its second edition, this extended and thoroughly updated handbook introduces researchers and students to the growing range of theoretical and methodological perspectives being developed in the vibrant field of strategy as practice. With new authors and additional chapters, it shows how the strategy as practice approach in strategic management moves away from disembodied and asocial studies of firm assets, technologies and practices to explore and explain the contribution that strategizing makes to people working at all levels of an organization. It breaks down many of the traditional paradigmatic barriers in strategy to investigate who the strategists are, what they do, how they do it, and what the consequences or outcomes of their actions are. This essential work summarizes recent developments in the field while presenting a clear agenda for future research.

Author : Gerry Johnson,Leif Melin,Richard Whittington
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007-08-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521862936

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Strategy as Practice by Gerry Johnson,Leif Melin,Richard Whittington Pdf

This is an analysis of what managers actually do in relation to the development of strategy in organisations.

Author : Harry R. Yarger
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Military doctrine
ISBN : 9781428916227

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Strategic Theory for the 21st Century: The Little Book on Big Strategy by Harry R. Yarger Pdf

Author : Mark Dodgson,David M. Gann,Nelson Phillips
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199694945

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The Oxford Handbook of Innovation Management by Mark Dodgson,David M. Gann,Nelson Phillips Pdf

While innovation is widely recognised as being critical to organisational success and the well-being of societies, it requires careful management to ensure that innovation processes have the best possible impact. This volume provides a wide range of perspectives on the nature of innovation management and its influences.

Author : Shankar Sankaran,Ralf Müller,Nathalie Drouin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 944 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108293686

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Cambridge Handbook of Organizational Project Management by Shankar Sankaran,Ralf Müller,Nathalie Drouin Pdf

In recent years, organizational project management (OPM) has emerged as a field focused on how project, program and portfolio management practices strategically help firms realize organizational goals. There is a compelling need to address the totality of project-related work at the organizational level, providing a view of organizations as a network of projects to be coordinated among themselves, integrated by the more permanent organization, and to move away from a focus on individual projects. This comprehensive volume provides views from a wide range of international scholars researching OPM at a cross-disciplinary level. It covers concepts, theories and practices from disciplines allied to management, such as strategic management, organization sciences and behavioural science. It will be a valuable read for scholars and practitioners alike, who are looking to enrich their understanding of OPM and further investigate this new phenomenon.

Author : Richard Rumelt
Publisher : Currency
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780307886231

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Good Strategy Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt Pdf

Good Strategy/Bad Strategy clarifies the muddled thinking underlying too many strategies and provides a clear way to create and implement a powerful action-oriented strategy for the real world. Developing and implementing a strategy is the central task of a leader. A good strategy is a specific and coherent response to—and approach for—overcoming the obstacles to progress. A good strategy works by harnessing and applying power where it will have the greatest effect. Yet, Rumelt shows that there has been a growing and unfortunate tendency to equate Mom-and-apple-pie values, fluffy packages of buzzwords, motivational slogans, and financial goals with “strategy.” In Good Strategy/Bad Strategy, he debunks these elements of “bad strategy” and awakens an understanding of the power of a “good strategy.” He introduces nine sources of power—ranging from using leverage to effectively focusing on growth—that are eye-opening yet pragmatic tools that can easily be put to work on Monday morning, and uses fascinating examples from business, nonprofit, and military affairs to bring its original and pragmatic ideas to life. The detailed examples range from Apple to General Motors, from the two Iraq wars to Afghanistan, from a small local market to Wal-Mart, from Nvidia to Silicon Graphics, from the Getty Trust to the Los Angeles Unified School District, from Cisco Systems to Paccar, and from Global Crossing to the 2007–08 financial crisis. Reflecting an astonishing grasp and integration of economics, finance, technology, history, and the brilliance and foibles of the human character, Good Strategy/Bad Strategy stems from Rumelt’s decades of digging beyond the superficial to address hard questions with honesty and integrity.

Author : Henry William Chesbrough
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781422104279

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Open Business Models by Henry William Chesbrough Pdf

Provides a diagnostic tool for readers to assess their business model and usher it through a six-stage continuum toward openness. This book also identifies the barriers to creating open business models (such as the not invented here syndrome and the not sold here virus) and explains how to surmount them.

Author : Thomas W. Malone,Kevin Crowston,George Arthur Herman
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Knowledge management
ISBN : 0262134292

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Organizing Business Knowledge by Thomas W. Malone,Kevin Crowston,George Arthur Herman Pdf

A systematic and powerful method for organizing and accessing business knowledge.

Author : Thierry Balzacq,Ronald R. Krebs
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 801 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780192576620

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The Oxford Handbook of Grand Strategy by Thierry Balzacq,Ronald R. Krebs Pdf

A clearly articulated, well-defined, and relatively stable grand strategy is supposed to allow the ship of state to steer a steady course through the roiling seas of global politics. However, the obstacles to formulating and implementing grand strategy are, by all accounts, imposing. The Oxford Handbook of Grand Strategy addresses the conceptual and historical foundations, production, evolution, and future of grand strategy from a wide range of standpoints. The seven constituent sections present and critically examine the history of grand strategy, including beyond the West; six distinct theoretical approaches to the subject; the sources of grand strategy, ranging from geography and technology to domestic politics to individual psychology and culture; the instruments of grand strategy's implementation, from military to economic to covert action; political actors', including non-state actors', grand strategic choices; the debatable merits of grand strategy, relative to alternatives; and the future of grand strategy, in light of challenges ranging from political polarization to technological change to aging populations. The result is a field-defining, interdisciplinary, and comparative text that will be a key resource for years to come.

Author : Luis M. B. Cabral
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262338943

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Introduction to Industrial Organization, second edition by Luis M. B. Cabral Pdf

An issue-driven introduction to industrial organization, thoroughly updated and revised. The study of industrial organization (IO)—the analysis of the way firms compete with one another—has become a key component of economics and of such related disciplines as finance, strategy, and marketing. This book provides an issue-driven introduction to industrial organization. Although formal in its approach, it is written in a way that requires only basic mathematical training. It includes a vast array of examples, from both within and outside the United States. This second edition has been thoroughly updated and revised. In addition to updated examples, this edition presents a more systematic treatment of public policy implications. It features added advanced sections, with analytical treatment of ideas previously presented verbally; and exercises, which allow for a deeper and more formal understanding of each topic. The new edition also includes an introduction to such empirical methods as demand estimation and equilibrium identification. Supplemental material is available online.

Author : Paula Jarzabkowski
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2005-09-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781446230565

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Strategy as Practice by Paula Jarzabkowski Pdf

`An important and extremely welcome addition to the strategic management field. In this book the author builds on the work of an emerging community of scholars to lay out theoretical and methodological underpinnings of an activity-based framework for applying the practice lens to strategy′ - Academy of Management Review `Paula Jarzabkowski has astutely signaled an agenda for future scholarship that will no doubt fuel the continued growth of this subfield′ - Organization Studies `Pioneering work. As the first book in the new strategy-as-practice field, it offers readers both innovative models and exemplary field research′ - Richard Whittington, Professor of Strategic Management, Said Business School, Oxford ′Extends and develops the emerging fields of strategy and practice as well as activity theory. It also demonstrates empirically, using University settings, how activity theory is itself bounded by the wider contexts of organisation, embedded routines and the heavy hand of history′ - David C. Wilson, University of Warwick `An insightful book that would be of use to people interested in the actual practices of strategy and strategizing′ - Organization Bridging the gap between what managers actually do and organizational strategies, this book provides an activity-based framework for studying strategy as practice, with empirical evidence to illustrate the dynamics of this framework in real terms.