Handbook of Strategy and Management

by Andrew M Pettigrew

• ISBN13: 9780761958932
• ISBN10: 0761958932
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-12-14
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd

Summary

Presenting a major retrospective and prospective overview of strategy, this Handbook is an important benchmark volume for management scholars worldwide. The Handbook frames, assesses and synthesizes the work in the field. Chapters are grouped under four specific areas of strategy and management: Mapping a Terrain; Thinking and Acting Strategically; Changing Contexts; and Looking Forward. Within these parts, leading international scholars provide historical overviews of the key themes, address the central approaches which have characterized these themes, critically assess the quality of current theory and knowledge, and set out agendas for future theoretical and empirical development.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: MAPPING A TERRAIN

Strategic Management - Andrew Pettigrew, Howard Thomas and Richard Whittington

The Strengths and Limitations of a Field

The Domain of Strategic Management - Edward H Bowman, Harbir Singh and Howard Thomas

History and Evolution

PART TWO: THINKING AND ACTING STRATEGICALLY

Constructing Competitive Advantage - Karel Cool, Luis Almeida Costa and Ingemar Dierickx

Corporate Strategy - Robert M Grant

Managing Scope and Strategy Content

Corporate Strategy - Constantinos Markides

The Role of the Centre

Corporate Structure - Richard Whittington

From Policy to Practice

Knowledge-Based View - Katheleen M Eisenhardt and Filipe M Santos

A New Theory of Strategy?

Managing Cognition and Strategy - Joseph Porac and Howard Thomas

Issues, Trends and Future Directions

Strategy Process - Balaji Chakravarthy and Roderick E White

Forming, Implementing and Changing Strategies

Strategic Change Processes - Raghu Garud and Andrew H Van de Ven

Top Management, Company Directors and Corporate Control - Gerald F Davis and Michael Useem

PART THREE: CHANGING CONTEXTS

International Management and Strategy - Bruce Kogut

Quasi Strategy - Ewan Ferlie

Strategic Management in the Contemporary Public Sector

Entrepreneurship, Small Firms and Wealth Creation - Rita Gunther McGrath

A Framework Using Real Options Analysis

The Strategy and Management of International Institutions - Winfried Ruigrok

Technology in Corporate Strategy - Keith Pavitt and W Edward Steimueller

Change, Continuity and the Information Revolution

What Are the Responsibilities of Business to Society? - David A Whetten, Gordon Rands and Paul Godfrey

PART FOUR: LOOKING FORWARD

The Conduct of Strategy Research - Haridimos Tsoukas and Christian Knudsen

Business History and Strategy - David J Jeremy

Theorizing the Future of Strategy - N Venkatraman and Mohan Subramaniam

Questions for Shaping Strategy Research in the Knowledge Economy

Conclusion - Richard Whittington, Andrew Pettigrew and Howard Thomas

Doing More in Strategy Research