Managing Change for Competitive Success (ESRC Competitiveness) - Hardcover

Pettigrew, Andrew; Whipp, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0631182411 ISBN 13: 9780631182412

Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell, 1991

Synopsis

Based on a study of four UK industry sectors this book provides an analysis of how UK companies manage strategic change and how it impacts on their competitive performance. The authors focus on the key question of why firms operating in the same industry produce varying performances over time; as a result they pinpoint the differences in the way that change is managed from business to business and the common problems across industry sectors. Five central problems stand out: environmental assessment; leading change; linking strategic and operational change; human resources; and coherence. The central chapters examine in detail the relevance and effects of these key features combining core theory with real practice to give an overview of a highly uncertain process. There is no single "best practice" but the authors are able to advance an important new approach to the process: the creation of "intangible assets". The research programme examined the assessment and implementation of strategic change in automobiles, publishing, banking and life assurance. The results should be of interest to both managers and those who study and analyze modern business.

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Review

"A far reaching study." Financial Times

"A highly significant contribution to the strategy literature." Times Higher Education Supplement

From the Back Cover

This extremely successful book, already in use on courses in hardback, is now being made available in paperback. Based on a major in–depth study of four UK industry sectors, the book provides an authoritative and searching analysis of how UK companies manage strategic change and how it affects their competitive performance.

The authors focus on the key question of why firms operating in the same industry produce varying performances over time. As a result they have been able to pinpoint the differences in the way that change is managed from business to business and identify the common problems across industry sectors.
Managing Change for Competitive Success:

• Explores both high and low performance at company level
• Stresses that managing change is a long–term process requiring continual adjustment to uncertainty and complexity
• Uses numerous practical case studies in explaining performance differences

Combining theory with real practice Managing Change for Competitive Success is an essential resource for all students of Strategic Management.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0631182411
• ISBN 13: 9780631182412
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304