The Paradoxical Foundation Of Strategic Management

Author : Andreas Rasche
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007-10-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783790819762

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The Paradoxical Foundation of Strategic Management by Andreas Rasche Pdf

At last – a systematic critique of the scientific discourse of strategic management. This fantastic book uncovers scholars' unquestioned assumptions and shows that by upholding these assumptions researchers obscure the paradoxical nature of strategic reasoning. To uncover the paradoxes of strategic management the author refers to the philosophy of Jacques Derrida. He delves into the internal contradictions that inevitably occur when theorizing about corporate strategy along the dimensions strategy context, process, and content and shows how these paradoxes can enrich future thinking about strategic problems.

Author : Jeffrey S. Harrison,Caron H. St. John
Publisher : Cengage Learning
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781285528700

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Foundations in Strategic Management by Jeffrey S. Harrison,Caron H. St. John Pdf

Introduce the most important theories and views in strategic management today with this concise, yet fully complete, text. Harrison/St. John's FOUNDATIONS IN STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT, Sixth Edition, addresses the most recent changes in today's business environment, including many topics that other strategic management texts often miss. The book thoroughly addresses the traditional economic process model and the resource-based model, as well as the stakeholder theory. This valuable text builds on a traditional theoretical foundation by using engaging examples from many of today's leading firms to demonstrate principles and applications. This edition continues to highlight strategizing in the global arena as well as more focused coverage of stakeholder management. This brief, well-rounded text functions as an indispensable resource for your immediate and long-term success in strategic management. Available with InfoTrac Student Collections http://gocengage.com/infotrac. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

Author : John Harrison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1473711649

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Foundations in Strategic Management by John Harrison Pdf

Author : John Storey,Graeme Salaman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1444316591

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Managerial Dilemmas by John Storey,Graeme Salaman Pdf

In the midst of the most severe recession for 80 years there is little need to argue that organizations are beset by dilemmas and paradoxes. Confidence in prevailing business models and in the underlying assumptions underpinning business decisions over many decades has now been shaken. But it is not enough to rail against arrogance and greed. Within their own (flawed) assumptions bankers and corporate leaders were acting rationally. A major reason for the failure to anticipate and warn is that observers of organizations usually tend to view organizations in terms similar to those employed by the people who run them: as rational, sensible and objective, whereas, in fact, they are usually confused and confusing, paradoxical and contradictory entities. Paradox is at the heart of how organizations work (or don’t work) yet the phenomenon has been strangely unstudied. In an age of crisis and uncertainty, dilemmas and paradoxes are especially evident and prevalent. The fascination and the promise of paradox is that there is also a sense that there is a hidden truth entwined within the opposites. This we contend is a challenge for leaders. The ultimate responsibility of leadership is to make sense of these and to handle them in a competent manner. This demands a new mode of leadership. The management of dilemma and paradox it is contended, the essence of leadership today. Paradoxical forces provide a dynamism which, although often experienced as potentially threatening, discomforting and negative can also be exciting, promising and positive. "The assumption that organizations are rational entities is challenged every day in the work environment by a rich reality of asymmetries between conflicting forces, complexity, hidden intentions and paradoxes. Anyone wanting to understand the real forces that govern organizations should read this book. A must read for modern leaders who have the intellectual honesty to lead organisations with open eyes and not with the over simplifications and clichés of the past"--Giovanni Ghisetti, Director Business Transformation, Coca Cola Enterprises Europe "Storey and Salaman’s description of the paradoxes which characterise leadership today is hauntingly accurate. Their intelligent optimism that those dilemmas can be met is as encouraging as it is challenging for those of us who have to do just that. Having read the insights in this book I now understand how their business advice was always so pertinent".--Andy Street, Managing Director of John Lewis

Author : Jovo Ateljević,Dženan Kulović,Filip Đoković,Mirza Bavčić
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000852783

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Business Strategy and Competitive Advantage by Jovo Ateljević,Dženan Kulović,Filip Đoković,Mirza Bavčić Pdf

Michael Porter is recognized as one of the top authorities on corporate strategy and business competition. The historical review of strategic management clearly shows that Porter’s research has bridged up two general paradigms (before and after the 1980s) thus helping both researchers and practitioners to better understand unanticipated global changes. His two generic strategies: costs and diversification, the two interdependent strategic options, are key in the context of the competitiveness of orthodox microeconomic theory. This is where Porter went further, constructing a popular value chain concept that provides the ability to disaggregate the key activities of business process in creating products and services in terms of cost analysis and value creation. This book is a collection of seven interconnected chapters that provides a coherent understanding of Michael Porter’s contribution to the field of strategic management. It addresses key changes and challenges in the global business environment. The value chain concept has become highly applicable in both theory and practice. In the book, the authors offer an original interpretation of the Porters’ research on strategic management in order to unravel or simplify his key theoretical concepts. It will be of interest to researchers, academics, practitioners, and students in the fields of strategic management and international business.

Author : Edward H Bowman,Sloan School of Management
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1341913228

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A Risk/Return Paradox for Strategic Management by Edward H Bowman,Sloan School of Management Pdf

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Author : Vivek Kale
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781466592162

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Inverting the Paradox of Excellence by Vivek Kale Pdf

Over time, overemphasis and adherence to the same proven routines that helped your organization achieve success can also lead to its decline resulting from organizational inertia, complacency, and inflexibility. Drawing lessons from one of the best models of success, the evolutionary model, Inverting the Paradox of Excellence explains why your organization must proactively seek out changes or variations on a continuous basis for ensuring excellence by testing out a continuum of opportunities and advantages. In other words, to maintain excellence, the company must be in a constant state of flux! The book introduces the patterns and anti-patterns of excellence and includes detailed case studies based on different dimensions of variations, including shared values variations, structure variations, and staff variations. It presents these case studies through the prism of the "variations" idea to help you visualize the difference of the "case history" approach presented here. The case studies illustrate the different dimensions of business variations available to help your organization in its quest towards achieving and sustaining excellence. The book extends a set of variations inspired by the pioneering McKinsey 7S model, namely shared values, strategy, structure, stuff, style, staff, skills, systems, and sequence. It includes case history segments for Toyota, Acer, eBay, ABB, Cisco, Blackberry, Tata, Samsung, Volvo, Charles Schwab, McDonald's, Scania, Starbucks, Google, Disney, and NUMMI. It also includes detailed case histories of GE, IBM, and UPS.

Author : Rebecca Bednarek,Miguel Pina e Cunha,Jonathan Schad,Wendy K. Smith
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781801171861

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Interdisciplinary Dialogues on Organizational Paradox by Rebecca Bednarek,Miguel Pina e Cunha,Jonathan Schad,Wendy K. Smith Pdf

Interdisciplinary Dialogues on Organizational Paradox is an innovative two-part volume that enriches our understanding about paradox. Part B continues the exploration of the why, how and where of interdisciplinary research within paradox theory by looking at the realms of social structure and expression.

Author : Joel Baum,Joseph B. Lampel
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781849508995

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The Globalization Of Strategy Research by Joel Baum,Joseph B. Lampel Pdf

This volume brings together various emerging perspectives in strategy research for further interaction and debate. Contributions address a range of issues related to the globalization of strategy research and chapters examine strategy theory, methods and research as well as strategy as practice, discourse and reflexive design.

Author : Chris Mowles
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317550358

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Managing in Uncertainty by Chris Mowles Pdf

The reality of everyday organizational life is that it is filled with uncertainty, contradictions and paradoxes. Yet leaders and managers are expected to act as though they can predict the future and bring about the impossible: that they can transform themselves and their colleagues, design different cultures, choose the values for their organization, be innovative, control conflict and have inspiring visions. Whilst managers will have had lots of experiences of being in charge, they probably realise that they are not always in control. So how might we frame a much more realistic account of what’s possible for managers to achieve? Many managers are implicitly aware of their messy reality, but they rarely spend much time reflecting on what it is that they are actually doing. Drawing on insights from the complexity sciences, process sociology and pragmatic philosophy, Chris Mowles engages directly with some principal contradictions of organizational life concerning innovation, culture change, conflict and leadership. Mowles argues that if managers proceed from the expectation that organizational life as inherently uncertain, and interactions between people are complex and often paradoxical, they start noticing different things and create possibilities for acting in different ways. Managing in Uncertainty will be of interest to practitioners, advanced students and researchers looking at management and organizational studies from a critical perspective.

Author : Jeffrey S. Harrison,Professor of Management in the College of Business Administration Jeffrey S Harrison,Caron H. St. John
Publisher : South Western Educational Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Strategic planning
ISBN : 1285057600

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Foundations of Strategic Management by Jeffrey S. Harrison,Professor of Management in the College of Business Administration Jeffrey S Harrison,Caron H. St. John Pdf

Introduce the most important theories and views in strategic management today using this concise, yet fully complete, text. Harrison/St. John's FOUNDATIONS IN STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT, 6e, International Edition addresses the most recent changes in today's business environment, including many topics that other strategic management texts often miss. This valuable text builds on a traditional theoretical foundation by using engaging examples from many of today's leading firms to demonstrate principles and applications. This edition continues to highlight strategizing in the global arena and the contemporary challenges of increased globalization while offering additional coverage of the increasingly important topic of stakeholder management.The book's streamlined content corresponds closely with the way you teach, while providing the flexibility for you to customize your course to the needs of your students with cases, exercises, simulations and readings. The book utilizes a traditional strategic management process model while building on core ideas from industrial organization economics, the resource-based perspective, and stakeholder theory. Rely on FOUNDATIONS IN STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT, 6e, International Edition to offer an indispensable resource that your students need for immediate and long-term success in strategic management.

Author : BusinessNews Publishing
Publisher : Primento
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9782511021903

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Summary: The Strategy Paradox by BusinessNews Publishing Pdf

The must-read summary of Michael Raynor's book: "The Strategy Paradox: Why Committing to Success Leads to Failure (and What to Do About It). This complete summary of the ideas from Michael Raynor's book "The Strategy Paradox" shows that whenever you develop a strategy to achieve a specific objective, you are also automatically making some implicit assumptions about what the future market forces will be. If that forecast of future market conditions turns out to be incorrect, then your strategy which had a reasonable chance of success might turn out to be an absolute failure. In his book, the author explains that this is the essence of the strategy paradox. This summary explains how to hedge your strategic bets by creating a number of strategic options which can be harnessed depending on the actual marketplace conditions and the four phases of the strategic flexibility process. Added-value of this summary: • Save time • Understand key concepts • Expand your knowledge To learn more, read "The Strategy Paradox" and discover the key to protecting your business from failure.

Author : Ina Ehnert,Wes Harry,Klaus J. Zink
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783642375248

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Sustainability and Human Resource Management by Ina Ehnert,Wes Harry,Klaus J. Zink Pdf

The role of HRM in developing sustainable business organizations is increasingly attracting attention. Sustainability can be used as a principle for HRM itself and the tasks of Sustainable HRM are twofold. On the one hand it fosters the conditions for individual employee sustainability and develops the ability of HRM systems to continuously attract, regenerate and develop motivated and engaged employees by making the HRM system itself sustainable. On the other hand Sustainable HRM contributes to the sustainability of the business organizations through cooperation with the top management, key stakeholders and NGOs and by realising economic, ecological, social and human sustainability goals. This book provides a comprehensive review of the new area of Sustainable HRM and of research from different disciplines like sustainable work systems, ergonomics, HRM, linking sustainability and HRM. It brings together the views of academics and practitioners and provides many ideas for conceptual development, empirical exploration and practical implementation. This publication intends to advance the international academic and practice-based debates on the potential of sustainability for HRM and vice versa. In 19 chapters, 26 authors from five continents explore the role of HRM in developing economically, socially and ecologically sustainable organizations, the concept of Sustainable HRM and the role of HRM in developing Sustainable HRM systems and how sustainability and HRM are conceptualized and perceived in different areas of the world.

Author : Simon Grand
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781785366314

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Routines, Strategies and Management by Simon Grand Pdf

The dynamic interplay of routines, strategies and management allows companies to successfully move forward within their industries. This book contributes to a coherent conceptualization of strategy, organization and management from a practice perspective, identifying strategy as realized in the action. Simon Grand provides a theoretical framework and detailed exploration in the context of two attractive empirical cases. He discusses topics such as theorizing routine dynamics, managerial engagement and managing routines as strategies to provide a detailed exploration of the importance of organizational routines for strategy. This book will be of interest to researchers in the areas of organizational studies, strategic management, technological innovation and the creative industries. The empirical case studies will also be of use to students and scholars of various disciplines.

Author : Mark Crowder,Mohammad Roohanifar,Trevor A. Brown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000547207

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Public Sector Strategy by Mark Crowder,Mohammad Roohanifar,Trevor A. Brown Pdf

Public Sector Strategy explores how strategic decisions are developed and implemented in the public sector, and examines the psychology underpinning strategic decision-making. Combining knowledge from traditional perspectives with contemporary insights on strategic management, this book considers how managers make their decisions and provides key concepts and practical tools to aid delivery of strategy within highly institutionalised settings. This book provides theoretical grounding, real-life global cases, and practical examples of strategic decisions in an international public-sector context by working through the underpinnings of strategy, the influencing factors of strategic decision-making, strategic implementation, and strategic tools in practice. It should be a core textbook for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students studying public sector strategy and strategic management more broadly. It will also be of benefit for public sector managers, consultants, and private sector organisations who wish to interact with the public sector.