Strategic Thinking for Turbulent Times

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2. Introduction

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3. The Driving Forces of Strategic Thinking Today

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   2. Fundamental Shifts in the Foundations of Strategic Behavior

      1. The Forces

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   3. Capital Markets

      1. How Capital Markets Have Changed Competitive Behavior

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      2. Structured Finance Debacle and Corporate Finance

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      3. The Damage to Investment Capital Markets Today

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      4. Credit Rating and Corporate Finance

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      5. The Cultural Roots of the Credit Crisis

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   4. The Corporation

      1. Shifting Foundations

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      2. Technology and Disruptive Innovations

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      3. Concentrative Dominance

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      4. Competitive Distrust

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   5. The China Factor

      1. China’s Economic Growth: Past and Future

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      2. China’s Approach to Economic Policies

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      3. China’s Capital Market Dilemma

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4. How Will Companies Strategize Tomorrow?

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   2. How do Companies Strategize Today?

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   3. In Search of a New Paradigm for Strategic Thinking

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   4. Concentration: The Dominant Strategic Behavior of the Coming Decade

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Strategic Thinking for Turbulent Times is a conceptual and operational guide to the process of business strategy formulation within a turbulence driven economic and business environment. This book features pioneering work on the process of strategic thinking after the dramatic shift in the fundamental premises of strategic management.

• business
• business strategy
• China
• management
• strategic management
• strategy

Professor Dr M.S.S. El Namaki is Dean of the Victoria University of Switzerland. He has developed and introduced management degree programs (MBA, EMBA, DBA and PhD) at institutions in the Netherlands, China, Egypt, Brazil, Poland, Canada, Kazakhstan, Syria and Indonesia. Professor El Namaki has taught globally at such institutions as MSM (Maastricht), Kellog (Chicago), Jiao Tong University (Shanghai), Beijing University (Beijing), AIT (Bangkok), Helsinki School of Economics, Sheffield University (UK) and several others. He assumed executive positions within Philips (Eindhoven), McKinsey (London and Dar es Salaam) and Time Inc. (Amsterdam). He has consulted and delivered executive seminars on a wide scale and his clients included Fortune 500 companies such as DuPont, Philips and Pepsi as well as landmark national corporations such as China Pacific Insurance Corporation CPIC (Shanghai), Eastern Tobacco (Egypt) and Abraaj (United Arab Emirates). He has published 6 books and more than 100 articles. He teaches and consults on strategic thinking, entrepreneurship and international business.

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