Strategy and Organization: Realizing Strategic Management

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Cambridge University Press, 2003 M08 7 - 232 pages
"Examining some of the new and emerging issues in strategic management, Loizos Heracleous offers a fresh approach to the established ideas of strategy. Beginning with the historical development of the strategy field, including the influence of industrial organization and the resource-based view, he develops a new perspective labeled an "organizational action" view of strategy. This approach is theoretically underlain by organization theory and takes seriously such issues as the role of agency, the need for a longitudinal focus on process, the complexities of strategy implementation, and organizational facets such as strategic choice, organizational culture, organizational discourses and learning. Combining theoretical subtlety with an applied orientation, Heracleous examines topical areas such as corporate governance, inter-organization networks, and organizing for the future. With original research and extensive surveys of the strategy literature, combined with a strong practical orientation, this book is ideal for MBA students, strategy researchers, and the more thoughtful practitioner."--BOOK JACKET.

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Contents

The strategic management field
3
An organizational action view of strategic management
23
Strategic thinking or strategic planning?
38
Leadership research and the board of directors
53
The complexities of strategy implementation
73
Organizational culture and strategic change processes
87
The role of organizational discourse in understanding and managing strategic change
112
Strategic change processes an organization development approach
125
State ownership privatization and performance
149
Does corporate governance make a difference to organizational performance?
168
Types of interorganizational networks and the strategic roles of directors
184
Organizing for the future
211
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Dr Heracleous is Associate Professor of Corporate Strategy at the School of Business, National University of Singapore.

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