Practicing Strategy: Text And Cases - Softcover

Paroutis, Sotirios; Heracleous, Loizos; Angwin, Duncan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 184920750X ISBN 13: 9781849207508

Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd, 2013

Synopsis

*Shortlisted for the CMI Management Book of the Year*

Practicing Strategy is a groundbreaking new textbook focusing on the strategy-as-practice approach, which considers strategy not only as something an organisation has but something which its members do.

Practicing Strategy is a groundbreaking new textbook focusing on the strategy-as-practice approach, which considers strategy not only as something an organisation has but something which its members do. is a groundbreaking new textbook focusing on the strategy-as-practice approach, which considers strategy not only as something an organisation has but something which its members do.

By bringing together a number of distinctive investigations of strategy practice, this book will enrich your understanding of the dynamic process through which organizational strategies are created and executed.

Key features:

• The first textbook to be based on insights from the strategy-as-practice perspective, making it an ideal core text for related modules
• Packed with real-life mini case studies and a final section containing longer cases from Apple, Centrica, Marconi, Lafarge and Wikimedia, relating theory to practice
• Chapters include learning objectives, summaries, discussion questions and further readings and a Companion Website contains additional online readings, to consolidate your learning and encourage in-depth analysis.

Practicing strategy is an invaluable text for undergraduate and postgraduate students of advanced strategy modules.

Electronic Inspection Copy available for instructors here

Visit the Companion Website at www.sagepub.co.uk/paroutis  

About this title

About the Author

Sotirios Paroutis is an Associate Professor of Strategic Management at Warwick Business School. He earned his PhD from the University of Bath. His research has been published in journals such as the Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management Studies, Human Relations, California Management Review, and Journal of Knowledge Management. His research interests lie in the study of strategy practices and processes in challenging and complex organizational settings in the UK and globally. More information can be found at www.paroutis.org

Sotirios can be reached at sotirios.paroutis@wbs.ac.uk

Edition details

• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 184920750X
• ISBN 13: 9781849207508
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272