Practicing Strategy: Text and Cases - Softcover

Paroutis, Sotirios; Heracleous, Loizos; Angwin, Duncan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 184920750X ISBN 13: 9781849207508

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2013

Synopsis

Practising Strategy is a groundbreaking new textbook focusing wholly on the cutting-edge Strategy as Practice approach, which considers strategy not only as something an organisation has but something which its members do.

Key features:

- The first textbook to use the insights from the research from a strategy as practice perspective to start informing managerial practice

- Packed with case studies

- Learning features include chapter summaries and discussion questions

By bringing together a number of distinctive investigations of strategy practice, this book will enrich our understanding of the dynamic process through which organizational strategies are created and executed.

Practising strategy will be an invaluable text for postgraduate students of strategy, strategic management and related modules.

About this title

About the Author

Sotirios Paroutis is Professor of Strategic Management and Head of the Strategy and International Business Group at the Warwick Business School. His research interests lie at the intersections of strategy practices and processes in complex organizational settings in the UK and globally. He uses qualitative and quantitative methods to examine the discursive, cognitive and visual activities organizational actors employ when dealing with strategic tensions. 

Review

′ A very interesting, absorbing and well-considered book that explores a subject often overlooked: that strategy must be executed and thus evolves in practice.′ Author: Nigel Girling, CMI Management Book of the Year Category Judge

′This book makes an important contribution by adopting a new stance of strategy as practice. It has a good mix of theory and practice and an excellent range of case studies.′ Author: Professor Darren Calcher, CMI Management Book of the Year Category Judge

′This is a first: an academically rigorous textbook on the practicalities of strategizing. It will be a vital resource to all teachers and students interested in Strategy-as-Practice′
Richard Wittington, Professor of Strategy and Millmann Fellow
University of Oxford

′Over the last decade, Strategy-as-Practice has emerged as a distinctive approach to studying strategy. By treating strategy as something that people do rather than something that firms in their markets have, it has revolutionized our understanding of this important area of management. With this textbook we now have an important resource that will help teaching this approach in the classroom. The book provides a step-by-step introduction to Strategy-as-Practice, a discussion of its main components and several exciting case studies. I am sure that both students and teachers will find the book of great value′

Professor David Seidl
Chair of Organization and Management, University of Zurich

′This is an outstanding strategy text that takes strategists and their work seriously. Students, practitioners and scholars who seek to understand the micro-levels of strategy including practitioners, practices and praxis will find this an invaluable reading′
Patrick Regnér
Associate Professor, Stockholm School of Economics

′This book is a welcome addition to the field of Strategic management. The case studies are original and really help to render the Strategy as Practice perspective accessible to practitioners and students alike′
Veronique Ambrosini
Professor of Management, Monash University, Australia

′The authors of this book have distilled the core messages of strategy-as-practice into a series of easy-to-read and easy-to-apply chapters. It has done well to retain sufficient sophistication for an academic audience, drawing on recent studies and explaining theoretical ideas, while also ensuring accessibility by presenting them in a format that is comprehensible for practitioners and students without prior knowledge in this area′ Author: Jane Lê

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 184920750X
• ISBN 13: 9781849207508
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272