Strategy Synthesis: Resolving Strategy Paradoxes to Create Competitive Advantage - Hardcover

De Wit, Bob; Meyer, Ron

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1861525184 ISBN 13: 9781861525185

Publisher: Cengage Learning Business Press, 1999

Synopsis

This is a streamlined version of de Wit and MeyerÂ's successful text, Strategy: Process, Content, Context. It contains a range of articles with text contextualising the debates around key issues, allowing a wide range of views to be explored within each debate.

About this title

About the Author

Bob de Wit is director of the Strategy Academy, an international research and educational institution focusing on strategy, leadership and business innovation issues (www.strategy-academy.org). He is also managing director of Strategy Works, an international strategy consulting and coaching firm that facilitates boardroom decision-making and guides companies through processes of strategic renewal (www.strategy-works.com).

Bob has a BA in Psychology from the University of Utrecht, an MBA from the Delft University of Technology and a Ph.D. in management from the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. From 1985 to 1996 he was a professor of strategic management at the Rotterdam School of Management. Since 1996 he has held a chair in Strategy at the Maastricht School of Management, where he also served as the Associate Dean for research from 1997 and 2001. Bob is an active member of the Strategic Management Society, where he serves as chairman of the Interest Group `The Practice of Strategy¿, as member of the annual conference paper review committee, and as a member of the McKinsey Best Paper Prize committee.

Review

"It is an intellectually stimulating book that is certain to engage the student reader through its unique approach" - reviewed by Sally Baack, San Francisco State University for the Academy of Management Learning and Education journal

"The authors present each topic as a debate, or tension, between perspectives. They einforce this debate with a selection of readings that presents summaries of original papers representing each perspective. It was these features, along with a 'reflectivepractitioner' tone, that persuaded me to adopt this text" - Paul Knott, Senior Lecturer in Strategic Management, University of Canterbury, Christchurch for the Human Systems Management journal

Edition details

• Publisher: Cengage Learning Business Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1861525184
• ISBN 13: 9781861525185
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 544