[PDF] The Oxford Handbook Of Strategy eBook

Author : David Faulkner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 42,46 MB
Release : 2003-02-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780198782551

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This two-volume handbook presents an authoritative and up-to-date analysis of how thinking on strategy has evolved and what are the likely developments in the near future. All the contributors are experts in their area, and bring to the topic an understanding informed by many years' experience of research, teaching, and practice. Volume One focuses on two major areas: first, the various different approaches to strategy, and secondly, the development of competitive or business unit strategy, where the pursuit of sustainable competitive advantage is the key objective.

Author : Thierry Balzacq
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 801 pages
File Size : 16,68 MB
Release : 2021-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0192576623

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A clearly articulated, well-defined, and relatively stable grand strategy is supposed to allow the ship of state to steer a steady course through the roiling seas of global politics. However, the obstacles to formulating and implementing grand strategy are, by all accounts, imposing. The Oxford Handbook of Grand Strategy addresses the conceptual and historical foundations, production, evolution, and future of grand strategy from a wide range of standpoints. The seven constituent sections present and critically examine the history of grand strategy, including beyond the West; six distinct theoretical approaches to the subject; the sources of grand strategy, ranging from geography and technology to domestic politics to individual psychology and culture; the instruments of grand strategy's implementation, from military to economic to covert action; political actors', including non-state actors', grand strategic choices; the debatable merits of grand strategy, relative to alternatives; and the future of grand strategy, in light of challenges ranging from political polarization to technological change to aging populations. The result is a field-defining, interdisciplinary, and comparative text that will be a key resource for years to come.

Author : David W. Cravens
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 39,24 MB
Release : 2012-11-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0191641758

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The Oxford Handbook of Strategic Sales and Sales Management is an unrivalled overview by leading academics in the field of sales and marketing management. Sales theory is experiencing a renaissance driven by a number of factors, including building profitable relationships, creating/delivering brand value, strategic customer management, sales and marketing relationships, global selling, and the change from transactional to customer relationship marketing. Escalating sales and selling costs require organisations to be more focused on results and highlight the shifting of resources from marketing to sales. Further the growth in customer power now requires a strategic sales response, and not just a tactical one. The positioning of sales within the organisation, the sales function and sales management are all discussed. The Handbook is not a general sales management text about managing a sales force, but will fill a gap in the existing literature through consolidating the current academic research in the sales area. The Handbook is structured around four key topics. The first section explores the strategic positioning of the sales function within the modern organisation. The second considers sales management and recent developments. The third section examines the sales relationship with the customer and highlights how sales is responding to the modern environment. Finally, the fourth section reviews the internal composition of sales within the organisation. The Handbook will provide a comprehensive introduction to the latest research in sales management, and is suitable for academics, professionals, and those taking professional qualifications in sales and marketing.

Author : David Faulkner
Publisher :
Page : 1031 pages
File Size : 21,81 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Business planning
ISBN :

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This volume presents an analysis of how thinking on strategy has evolved and what the likely developments in the near future are. All the contributors are experts in their area, and bring to the topic an understanding informed by many years' experience of research, teaching, and practice

Author : Mark Dodgson
Publisher :
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 40,63 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 019969494X

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While innovation is widely recognised as being critical to organisational success and the well-being of societies, it requires careful management to ensure that innovation processes have the best possible impact. This volume provides a wide range of perspectives on the nature of innovation management and its influences.

Author : Jonathan S. Comer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 30,31 MB
Release : 2013-05-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0199793549

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The Oxford Handbook of Research Strategies for Clinical Psychology has recruited some of the field's foremost experts to explicate the essential research strategies currently used across the modern clinical psychology landscape that maximize both scientific rigor and clinical relevance.

Author : David O. Faulkner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1062 pages
File Size : 50,13 MB
Release : 2006-04-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0199275211

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Presents an analysis of how thinking on strategy has evolved and what are the likely developments. This work includes chapters on six key areas: Approaches to Strategy, Strategic Analysis and Formulation, Corporate Strategy; International Strategy; Strategies of Organizational Change; and Strategic Flexibility and Uncertainty.

Author : Kamel Mellahi
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 24,17 MB
Release : 2021-01-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0198868375

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Multinational enterprises must contend with increasingly challenging conditions in the international business environment. This Handbook explores how classic principles of international competitive strategy are transformed in today's markets and provides suggestions on how firms can develop effective strategies to respond to these transformations.

Author : Damon Golsorkhi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 13,99 MB
Release : 2010-10-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1139490745

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The Cambridge Handbook of Strategy as Practice provides a comprehensive overview of an emerging and growing stream of research in strategic management. An international team of scholars has been assembled to produce a systematic introduction to the various epistemological, methodological and theoretical aspects of the strategy-as-practice approach. This perspective explores and explains the contribution that strategizing makes to daily operations at all levels of an organization. Moving away from a disembodied and asocial study of firm assets, technologies and practices, the strategy-as-practice approach breaks down many of the traditional paradigmatic boundaries in strategy to investigate who the strategists are, what strategists do, how they do it, and what the consequences or outcomes of their actions are. Including a number of detailed empirical studies, the handbook will be an essential guide for future research in this vibrant field.

Author : Peter W. G. Morris
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 37,90 MB
Release : 2012-07-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0191629383

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The Oxford Handbook of Project Management presents and discusses leading ideas in the management of projects. Positioning project management as a domain much broader and more strategic than simply 'execution management', this Handbook draws on the insights of over 40 scholars to chart the development of the subject over the last 50 years or more as an area of increasing practical and academic interest. It suggests we could be entering an emerging 'third wave' of analysis and interpretation following its early technical and operational beginnings and the subsequent shift to a focus on projects and their management. Topics dealt with include: the historical evolution of the subject; its theoretical base; professionalism; business and societal context; strategy; organization; governance; innovation; overruns; risk; information management; procurement; relationships and trust; knowledge management; practice and teams. This handbook is of particular relevance to those interested in the research issues underlying project management.