Mastering Strategy

by University of Chicago; INSEAD; University of Michigan Business School; SAID Business School

• ISBN13: 9780273649304
• ISBN10: 0273649302
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-08-01
• Publisher: FT Press

Summary

Businesses are continually striving to navigate the fast-moving currents of e-commerce and globalization. At the dawn of a new millenium, what better time is there for executives to stand back and consider the theory and practice of the strategic art. The old certainties of central and long-term planning may have fallen apart long ago, but what exactly has replaced them? Should companies primarily be looking outward at their external environment - or inward at their distinctive capabilities? How do managers choose from the competing schools of strategy - and is it possible to synthesize the different approaches that have been tested over the years into a coherent whole? There are no easy answers to these and other questions, but Mastering Strategy provides ideas to better inform and stimulate you to develop the most appropriate model for your own circumstances. Like the rest of this best-selling series, this book is based on the Financial Times newspaper series and brings together the latest thinking from world-renowned experts on every subject area pertinent to business people today.

Author Biography

From the Editors of The Financial Times, with contributions from leading business faculty at the University of Chicago, University of Michigan, and INSEAD, Oxford University, London.

Table of Contents

Introduction
History/State of Strategy	1	(16)
Strategy and Micro-Economics	17	(54)
Strategy and the General Business Environment	71	(32)
Strategy and Globalization	103	(22)
Strategy and Organizational Structures	125	(40)
Strategy and Technology	165	(14)
Mergers and Acquisition Strategy	179	(30)
Strategy and Shareholder Value/Governance	209	(22)
Strategy and Risk Management	231	(26)
Leadership and Strategy	257	(28)
Strategy and People	285	(28)
Sector Strategies	313	(28)
Strategic Alliances	341	(32)
Strategy and Knowledge	373	(24)
Strategy and Operations/Manufacturing	397	(20)
Fresh Challenges for the Future	417	(9)
Subject index	426	(5)
Organization index	431	(3)
Name index	434