Managing Strategic Action: Mobilizing Change Concepts, Readings and Cases - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803989156 ISBN 13: 9780803989153

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 1994

Synopsis

A major textbook, Managing Strategic Action outlines a framework for understanding strategic action, while key case studies and readings examine the issues involved in moving from strategic intent to realization. Part I highlights environmental analysis and strategic intent, the relations among strategy and structure, the impact of culture, and leadership and human resource management. Part II considers the central role of power and politics in mobilizing change, including the links between power and ethical action. The last part explores various strategic challenges, such as mergers and acquisitions, new product innovation, globalization, sustainable development, and collaboration. Interspersed throughout this exciting text are case studies on such companies as Apple Computer, Mrs. Fields′s Cookies, ICI, General Motors, Electronic Data Systems, Montreal Trust, and Machco. With its focus on strategic action and implementation, Managing Strategic Action is the perfect text for scholars and students in management and organization studies, specifically courses in strategy, strategic management, and business policy. "A useful study for a wide range of programmes" --Long Range Planning

About this title

About the Author

Cynthia Hardy is a Professor in the Faculty of Management, McGill University. Her publications include Strategies for Retrenchment and Turnaround: The Politics of Survival (De Gruyter, 1990) and Managing Organizational Closure (Gower, 1985).

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803989156
• ISBN 13: 9780803989153
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 478
• Editor: Hardy Cynthia