Competitiveness and the Management Process - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0631164650 ISBN 13: 9780631164654

Publisher: Blackwell Pub, 1988

Synopsis

The discipline of management has, in the 1980s, gone through an upheaval paralleled only by that which the business world itself has undergone. Sterile traditional fields have been supplanted in terms of vitality and importance by new fields taking up the challenge of presenting management ideas. This book examines the problems created by the massive increase in relative competitiveness which business faces, and demonstrates that they can only be tackled by taking an interdisciplinary approach. Developed from the Inaugral Conference of the British Academy of Management hosted by Warwick University in 1987 the book is a state-of-the-art analysis of new directions for management to the turn of the century.

Contributors:
Professor Cary Cooper, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology ; Professor Peter Grinyer, University of St Andrews ; Professor Rob Grant, California Polytechnic State University ; Professor Paul Marsh, London Business School ; Andrew Campbell, Ashridge Strategic Management Centre ; Professor Iain Mangham, University of Bath ; Dr Sudi Sharifi, University of Aston ; Dr Nigel Campbell, Manchester Business School ; Mr Arthur Francis, Imperial College School of Management ; Mr G S H Archer, University of Lancaster.

Contents:
Chapter 1: Stress in the Workplace ;
Chapter 2: Sharpbenders ;
Chapter 3: Diversity and Profitability ;
Chapter 4: Managing Strategic Investment Decisions ;
Chapter 5: Strategic Management Styles ;
Chapter 6: Managing the Executive Process ;
Chapter 7: Managerial Work ;
Chapter 8: Marketing and Competitive Success ;
Chapter 9: Competitive Advantage From Rational Marketing ;
Chapter 10: Organizing Professional Work ;
Chapter 11: "Qualitative" Research and the Epistomological Problems of the Management Disciplines

Edition details

• Publisher: Blackwell Pub
• Publication date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0631164650
• ISBN 13: 9780631164654
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 310
• Editor: Pettigrew Andrew M.