Handbook of Strategic Management, Second Edition,

by Rabin; Jack

• ISBN13: 9780824703394
• ISBN10: 0824703391
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-05-16
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Revised and updated for the second edition, the Handbook of Strategic Management provides a set of broad-based bibliographic essays on strategic management. It covers synoptic approaches, complexity theory, organizational capacity, financing strategy, networks, and chaos theory and offers an in-depth look the use of strategic management in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors. The National Institute of Personnel Management called this book "…the most comprehensive single-source treatment of strategic management." New topics discuss the role of strategic management in political decision making, uncertainty, the absence of strategy, productivity, teamwork, leadership, and change.

Table of Contents

Preface	iii
Contributors	ix
Introduction	xv
Part I: Context and Major Theories
Synoptic (One Best Way) Approaches of Strategic Management	1	(30)
Graham S. Toft
A Review of Research on Incremental Approaches to Strategy	31	(36)
David T. Methe
Donald Wilson
James L. Perry
Applications and Limitations of Complexity Theory in Organization Theory and Strategy	67	(22)
David L. Levy
Part II: Major Concepts and Ideas
The Environment and Strategic Management	89	(34)
Peter Smith Ring
Change in Chewable Bites: Managing the Strategic Change Portfolio	123	(18)
Douglas C. Eadie
Organizational Capacity in Strategic Management	141	(24)
Raymond A. Shapek
Rational and Political Models of Strategic Decision Making: Understanding the Role of Firm Performance and Stakeholder Political Pressure	165	(16)
J. L. Morrow, Jr.
Michael A. Hitt
Implementing Strategy: A Contingency Perspective	181	(22)
Richard W. Campbell
James L. Garnett
Uncertainty and Strategic Management	203	(24)
Jeffrey A. Weber
The Philosophy of Science and the Problem of Unobservables in Strategic Management Research	227	(22)
Paul C. Godfrey
Charles W. L. Hill, Jr.
Financing Strategy	249	(24)
W. Bartley Hildreth
Strategy Absence	273	(16)
Andrew C. Inkpen
Part III: The Organization and Strategy
Strategic Management: Developmental Themes and Challenges in a Basic Orientation	289	(38)
Robert T. Golembiewski
Strategy, Structure, and Performance	327	(16)
Daniel Frederick Jennings
Strategic Management for Productivity, or Is It the Other Way Around?	343	(28)
Arie Halachmi
From Networks to Network Structures: Collaborative Strategies	371	(16)
Myrna P. Mandell
Strategic Public Planning: External Orientations and Strategic Planning Team Members	387	(10)
Garry D. Bruton
W. Bartley Hildreth
Paradoxes in Leadership and Strategic Change	397	(34)
Paul C. Nutt
Robert W. Backoff
Michael F. Hogan
Critical-Incident Analysis of the Individual and Organizational Environment of Public-Sector Executives	431	(30)
Dorothy F. Olshfski
Strategic Management and Economic Development	461	(14)
Kuotsai Tom Liou
Chaos Theory and Strategic Management	475	(18)
Anna Carlson Goldoff with
David C. Ogula
Part IV: Use of Strategic Management in the Three Sectors
A. Private Sector
Private-Sector Strategic Management	493	(22)
Janet Vinzant Denhardt
Douglas H. Vinzant
Enhancing Worldwide Strategic Planning	515	(30)
Robert T. Golembiewski
Kent Nethery
William Shephard
Richard J. Hilles
B. Public Sector
Perspective on Public-Sector Strategic Management	545	(16)
Lisa A. Zanetti
Robert B. Cunningham
Strategic Management in the Federal Government: Necessary and Sufficient Elements	561	(34)
Nancy C. Roberts
Janice M. Menker
Strategic Planning in the Office of Child Support Enforcement	595	(16)
Tom Killmurray
Gaile Maller
Anne F. Donovan
Lily C. Matheson
Robert C. Harris
Keith E. Bassett
Wendy Gray
The Strategic Management Process at the IRS	611	(12)
Internal Revenue Service
Use of Strategic Planning and Reinvention and the Implementation of the Government Performance and Results Act: A Case Study	623	(34)
M. James LaRock
Strategic Management in State Government	657	(18)
Barton Wechsler
Frances Stokes Berry
Achieving Governmental Missions with Innovative Practices and Technology: Innovation in the Strategic Management of Regional Transportation Improvement	675	(16)
Wolfgang Pindur
George M. Yacus
Strategic Management in City Government	691	(18)
John J. Gargan
Thomas C. Sutton
Citizen-Driven Strategic Planning in Local Government: The Case of Orange County, Florida	709	(12)
Robert B. Denhardt
Kathryn G. Denhardt
Mark A. Glaser
City of Coral Springs Performance Measurement and Management System	721	(18)
Charles J. Schwabe
The Community Education Network: Negotiating the Path to a Strategic Plan	739	(10)
Jennifer P. Maxwell
C. The Nonprofit Sector
Strategic Management in the Nonprofit Sector	749	(14)
Melissa M. Stone
John M. Bryson
Thinking Strategically in the Changing Health Care Environment	763	(14)
F. David Richardson
R. Glenn Ray
The Environment of Strategic Management in Health Care Organizations	777	(20)
Paul E. Fitzgerald, Jr.
Strategic Cost Management: A Theory and Case Study in Academic Institutions	797	(8)
Larry N. Bitner
John M. Trussel
Index	805