The Strategy Reader

Susan Segal-Horn

Publisher: Blackwell, 1998 , 457 pages

ISBN: 0-631-20901-8

Synopsis:

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Featuring many classic articles, the popular Strategy Reader provides a remarkable overview of continuing debates in the field of strategic management. It contains many of the classic readings including those by Porter, Mintzberg, Grant, Hamel, and Prahalad. The Strategy Reader will appeal to readers seeking to broaden their understanding of the strategic issues facing their organization.

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• Introduction.
• Part 1: What is Strategy?.
• Introduction.
1. Of strategies, deliberate and emergent
   Henry Mintzberg and James Waters
2. Strategy as stretch and leverage
   Gary Hamel and C. K. Prahalad
3. Strategy as a language game
   Robert Eccles and Nitin Nohria
4. What is strategy?
   Michael Porter
• Part 2: The Role of Industry in Strategy?.
• Introduction.
5. How much does industry matter?
   Richard Rumelt
6. Maturity is a state of mind
   Charles Baden-Fuller and John Stopford
7. On the limits of a firm-based theory to explain business networks: the Western bias of neo-classical economics
   Nicole Woolsey Biggart and Gary Hamilton
8. Regulation and standards policy: setting standards by committees and markets
   Peter Grindley
• Part 3: The Resource-Based View of Strategy.
• Introduction.
9. The resource-based theory of competitive advantage: implications for strategy formulation
   Robert Grant
10. Strategic assets and organizational rent
    Raphael Amit and Paul Schoemaker
11. The core competence of the corporation
    C. K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel
• Part 4: Connections Between Strategy, Structure and Process.
• Introduction.
12. The structuring of organizations
    Henry Mintzberg
13. Configurations of strategy and structure: towards a synthesis
    Danny Miller
14. Creating a sense of mission
    Andrew Campbell and Sally Yeung
15. The leader's new work: building learning organizations
    Peter Senge
16. Strategy: a cognitive perspective
    Kevin Daniels and Jane Henry
• Part 5: Developing Corporate and International Strategy.
• Introduction.
17. Global strategy: an organizing framework
    Sumantra Ghoshal
18. Beyond the M-form: towards a managerial theory of the firm
    Christopher Bartlett and Sumantra Ghoshal
19. The internationalization of service firms
    Susan Segal-Horn
• Part 6: Postscript.
• Introduction.
20. Perspectives on strategy
    Geoff Jones
21. Management gurus: what makes them and how to become one
    Andrzej Huczynski