Studying Strategy

The purpose of this book is to introduce and reflect on some of the key writers, ideas, models and approaches in Strategic Management. Hopefully the book will bring together ideas and models from other areas of business and management study to support the planning of strategy.

Content :-

• A Starting Point For Our Thinking
  1. Whittington’s Schools of Strategic Thought – Philosophies of Strategy
  2. Classical Approaches
  3. Processual Approaches
  4. Evolutionary Approaches
  5. Systemic Approaches
  6. Reflecting On ‘Different’ Schools Of Strategy
  7. Summary
• Strategic Management: Models And Ideas
  1. Profit Maximization
  2. Models and Paradigms
  3. Strategic Models
  4. Scanning Models: PEST Analysis
  5. Scanning Models: SWOT Analysis
  6. Mission Statements
  7. Time Based Models: Industry/Organisational Lifecycle
  8. Growth Models: BCG Matrix
  9. Growth Models: Ansoff’s Growth Matrix
  10. Strategy Structure
  11. BPR – Business Process Engineering
  12. Summary
  13. Summary Points
• Strategic Management: Approaches And Methods
  1. Strategic Analysis, Choice and Implementation
  2. Competitive Strategy
  3. Value
  4. Chaos and Complexity – Ordinary and Extraordinary Management
  5. Summary
  6. Summary Points
• Influences on Action: Of Lobsters, Boiling Frogs and Nappies
  1. Prologue
  2. Recipes
  3. Archetypes
  4. Institutional Isomorphism
  5. Growth Cycles
  6. Life Cycles
  7. Summary
  8. Summary Points
• Resource Based Strategy
  1. Prologue
  2. What Is A Key Resource?
  3. The Emergence of Resource Based Strategy
  4. Core Competence
  5. Key Assets
  6. Resource Networks
  7. Interconnections And Embeddedness
  8. Summary
  9. Summary Points
• Global And International Strategic Management
  1. Prologue
  2. The Eclectic Paradigm: Ownership, Location and Internalisation
  3. Why Globalise?
  4. The Single Diamond Model of Global Competitiveness
  5. The Double Diamond Model of Global Competitiveness
  6. Strategy, Resources and Knowledge
  7. Cultural Dimensions
  8. Summary
  9. Summary Points
• Strategic Action: Culture, Change And Leadership
  1. Change
  2. Model Of Culture
  3. Modes Of Culture
  4. The Embodiment Of Leadership – The Leader
  5. Why Change Culture?
  6. On Culture And Change
  7. On Implementing Change
  8. Culture Change
  9. Summary
  10. Summary Points
• Public Sector Strategic Management
  1. Prologue
  2. What is the Public Sector?
  3. Trajectory Of The Public Sector
  4. Public Sector Management
  5. Environment of Public Sector Strategy
  6. Reflection on Public/Private Sector Differences
  7. Something Borrowed
  8. Change
  9. Summary
  10. Summary Points
• Endnotes