Exploring Corporate Strategy - Softcover

Johnson, Gerry; Scholes, Kevan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0132968495 ISBN 13: 9780132968492

Publisher: Prentice-Hall, 1993

Synopsis

Now in its third edition, this European strategy text covers the underlying concepts, analytical methods and practical implications of corporate strategy, showing how they can be applied successfully to organizations. Providing an understanding of what corporate strategy is and why strategic decisions are important, the authors view corporate strategy in two ways - as a matter of economic analysis and planning, and as a matter of organizational decision making within a social, political and cultural process. Building on the practice of good strategic management, the text will help managers to take decisions about change, and implement change with assurance and skill. The different approaches to formulating strategy are also discussed. New to the third edition are: fuller account of strategy development processes; more integrated treatment of cultural context of strategy; and critique of Porter's generic strategies and market driven framework for considering generic strategies.

About this title

Review

'New edition of a widely used and respected strategy textbook. Extensive teaching support.'  
Dr Bruce Lloyd, Book Review Editor for LRP

From the Back Cover

 Exploring Corporate Strategy is Europe s leading strategy textbook with sales of over 500,000 copies worldwide. This new edition builds on the established strengths of previous editions, whilst substantially updating and re-orientating material to meet the needs of contemporary students and lecturers. Classic features

• Combines analytic and process views of strategy.
• Heavily informed by research in the field.
• Links theory and practice through over 80 one-page illustrations and 11 chapter end case examples.
• Many globally known organisations (e.g. AOL/Time Warner, Honda, Virgin, Madonna, British Airways, BBC).
• Cases and examples from many different sectors and geographical locations including UK, US, Scandinavia, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Holland, Croatia.
• Impressive additional support for tutors and students including: teacher s manual (course design, work assignment de-briefs, case study teaching notes), CD of text Exhibits, companion website (including updates, links and multiple choice questions), videos and the Exploring Strategic Management series of books on: techniques, strategic change, finance and public sector strategy.

 New features:

• Throughout the text, strategy is seen through three complementary 'lenses': 'design' (an analytical approach); 'experience' (builds on cultural, institutional and cognitive schools of thought); 'ideas' (builds on evolutionary and complexity theories).
• Critical commentaries
• at the end of each part of the book encourage students to engage critically with the material, exploring links between chapter topics and developing a more holistic view of strategic issues as viewed through these three lenses.
• Strategies for a fast changing world including hypercompetitive and game theoretic strategies.
• An increased emphasis on knowledge as a basis of competitive advantage.
• A new framework for corporate level strategies.
• A new more integrated approach to issues of structuring: structures, processes, boundaries and relationships.
• A complete chapter on the links between overall strategy and strategies for separate resource areas, people, information, finance and technology.
• Many examples of new economy issues: IT, de-regulation, globalisation and flexible structuring.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice-Hall
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0132968495
• ISBN 13: 9780132968492
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 356