Digital Business Strategy: Content, Context and Cases

Digital Business Strategy responds to the need for clarification of the increasing, but fragmented, knowledge of digital business strategy. It systematically presents topical knowledge by reviewing previous research and developing frameworks for the content of digital business strategy and its relationships with relevant factors. In addition, the book analyses issues encountered by individual companies when implementing digital business strategies.

The volume identifies key categories of digital business strategy, in particular, strategy scope and direction, competitive advantage, and resource and capability reliance. It then explores relationships with antecedents such as digital experience, relationships with obstacles and enablers of strategy implementation, and relationships with operational and financial outcomes. The author demonstrates that strategy content and relationships differ among manufacturing companies, retailers, digital content providers, and digital platforms and also presents ways to cope with issues of implementation.

In summary, the book provides readers who wish to know more about the growing field of digital business strategy with up-to-date and systematic knowledge. It will be of great value to students at an advanced level, researchers, and reflective practitioners in the fields of technology management and strategic management in particular.

Anders Pehrsson is a Professor of Business Administration at the School of Business and Economics, Linnaeus University, Sweden. He received his PhD in industrial marketing from Linköping University in 1986. Dr. Pehrsson has written several books on company strategies. Routledge has previously published International Strategies in Telecommunications (1996), Strategy in Emerging Markets (2001), and Competitive International Strategy (2021). His articles have been published in journals such as Global Strategy Journal, International Marketing Review, Journal of Business Research, and Strategic Management Journal.