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Readings in Strategic Management

Editors:

  1. David Asch

    1. School of Management, Open University, UK

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  2. Cliff Bowman

    1. School of Management, Cranfield Institute of Technology, UK

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Table of contents (28 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Strategic Management Processes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-3
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    2. Of Strategies, Deliberate and Emergent

      • Henry Mintzberg, James A. Waters
      Pages 4-19

    3. Managing Strategic Change

      • James Brian Quinn
      Pages 20-36

    4. Rethinking Incrementalism

      • Gerry Johnson
      Pages 37-56

    7. Corporate Strategy and the Small Firm

      • Sue Birley
      Pages 78-82

  3. Strategy Formulation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-85
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    3. Business Policy Formulation: understanding the process

      • Ron Mclellan, Graham Kelly
      Pages 102-112

    4. Whatever Happened to Environmental Analysis?

      • Jack L. Engledow, R. T. Lenz
      Pages 113-132

    5. How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy

      • Michael E. Porter
      Pages 133-143

    6. Portfolio Planning: uses and limits

      • Philippe Haspeslagh
      Pages 144-161

    7. Defining Corporate Strengths and Weaknesses

      • Howard H. Stevenson
      Pages 162-176

    8. The Risky Business of Diversification

      • Ralph Biggadike
      Pages 177-190

    10. An Introduction to Divestment: the conceptual issues

      • John Coyne, Mike Wright
      Pages 201-218

    11. End-game Strategies for Declining Industries

      • Kathryn Rudie Harrigan, Michael E. Porter
      Pages 219-233

    12. From Competitive Advantage to Corporate Strategy

      • Michael E. Porter
      Pages 234-255
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About this book

Readings in Strategic Management contains a wide range of contributions from leading authors in the field designed to reflect the broad and diverse nature of this complex subject. The collection contains a mixture of older established articles and new contributions, with three being specially written. It also combines papers which develop the conceptual framework of strategic management with articles which report on the findings of empirical research.
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Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Management, Open University, UK

    David Asch

  • School of Management, Cranfield Institute of Technology, UK

    Cliff Bowman

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About the editors

DAVID ASCH is Dean of the Faculty of Business and Law at De Montfort University, Leicester, previously, Professor of Management at the Open University Business School. He has worked with a range of firms including Cornhill, Ernst & Young, Fujitsu/ICL, 3M, Siemens Computer Systems and Sun Microsystems.
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