Strategic Management is one of the world’s leading strategy
textbooks.
It covers all the major topics, particularly from a global perspective. It
delivers comprehensive coverage of all the main elements of the subject in an easy-to-read
style with extensive examples and a range of free support material that will help you
learn actively and effectively.
Richard Lynch
is Emeritus Professor of Strategic Management at Middlesex
University, London. He is an active researcher, lecturer and consultant, particularly in
the area of global strategy.
Table of Contents
Part 1 INTRODUCTION
1 Strategic management
2 A review of theory and practice
Part 2 STRATEGIC ANALYSIS AND PURPOSE
3 Analysing the strategic environment
4 Analysing resources and capabilities
5 Strategy dynamics
6 Prescriptive purpose delivered through mission, objectives and ethics
7 Purpose emerging from knowledge, technology and innovation
Part 3 DEVELOPING THE STRATEGY
8 Developing business level strategy options
9 Developing corporate level strategy options
10 Strategy evaluation and development: the prescriptive process
11 Finding the strategic route forward: emergent and prescriptive approaches
12 Organisational structure, style and people issues
Part 4 THE IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS
13 Implementing and controlling the strategic plan
14 Developing and implementing customer-driven strategy
15 Managing strategic change
Part 5 DIFFERENT STRATEGY CONTEXTS AND BUILDING A COHESIVE STRATEGY
16 Strategic leadership
17 Entrepreneurial strategy
18 Government, public sector and not-for-profit strategies
19 International expansion and globalisation strategies
20 Building a cohesive corporate strategy
Part 6 CASE STUDIES
Case study 1 Competing against the budget airlines
Case study 2 World market for beer: what now for SAB Miller?
Case study 3 Heineken's global strategy?
Case study 4 Global automotive vehicles
Case study 5 Tata Motors goes global
Case study 6 Toyota competes with Volkswagen for world leadership
Case study 7 What can companies learn from ‘Chainsaw Al’?
Case study 8 Solving Sony's problems
Case study 9 Thinking outside the box at IBM
Case study 10 Emergent strategy: competition and innovation in the world PC market
Case study 11 Public sector strategy: how Galileo ended up in trouble
Case study 12 Emergent strategy: who will topple Apple’s iPod?
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