Economic Foundations Of Strategic Management

Author : Mehmet Barca
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351941925
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Economic Foundations of Strategic Management written by Mehmet Barca and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the extent to which economic theory is able to provide the theoretical foundations of strategic management. To this end it draws on the philosophy of science; microeconomic theory; and different approaches to strategic management. The work shows that many of the propositions of strategic management are deducible from the economic theories considered. It argues that these propositions should be made open to empirical testing and that a unified theory of strategic management should be developed. Thus the book addresses a current major concern of theorists - that strategy remains ’atheoretical’ and that this reduces the predictive power of the subject and hampers further theory development. The essential contribution made is that economic theory should be systematically explored in order to establish the foundations of business strategy.

Author : Joseph T. Mahoney
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1412905435
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Economic Foundations of Strategy written by Joseph T. Mahoney and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2005 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theoretical foundations of management strategy are identified and outlined in this text. Five theories are considered in the light of questions about how organisations operate efficiently, cost minimization, wealth creation, individual self-interest, and continued growth.

Author : Manuel Becerra
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521863341
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theory of the Firm for Strategic Management written by Manuel Becerra and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-05 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Develops a value-based theory of the firm specifically aimed at strategic decision-making.

Author : Philip Bromiley
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405142502
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Behavioral Foundations of Strategic Management written by Philip Bromiley and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-02-04 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues persuasively that a behavioral perspective offers the best foundation for strategic management scholarship. This book presents a focused approach to strategic management theory. Outlines the basics of a behavioral approach to strategic management. Examines assumptions of rationality and equilibrium and the problems they create. Considers how a behavioral approach relates to a number of conventional approaches.

Author : Jean Garner Stead
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351276301
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sustainable Strategic Management written by Jean Garner Stead and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Sustainable strategic management” refers to strategic management policies and processes that seek competitive advantages consistent with a core value of environmental sustainability.This book has been specifically written as a text to augment traditional graduate and undergraduate management courses on strategic management. It fills the need for a strategy text that gives full attention to sustainability and environmental protection. The authors have structured the book to follow the usual order of topics in any standard management text. Sustainable Strategic Management also features an on-going, chapter-by-chapter case study (Eastman Chemical Company) that exemplifies many of the principles of environmentally sound management practices.From creating organizational visions, to formulating goals and strategies, to strategy implementation and evaluation, this book provides readers with new ways of thinking about their organization’s role in the greater society and ecosystem. From the Authors’ Preface:Ours is the first book to integrate sustainability into strategic management. It covers the full gamut of strategic management concepts and processes that would be expected in any quality strategic management book, and it does so in a way that thoroughly weaves sustainability into each and every one of them. Students using this book understand such things as: why reducing materials and energy intensity is an effective functionallevel strategy, why socially differentiated products command premium prices, and why a business ecosystem pursuing a vision of social and ecological responsibility can dominate its market. Further, because the book is relatively short, reasonably priced, and very thorough in its coverage of strategic management concepts and ideas, it can be used either as a stand-alone text for graduate and undergraduate strategic management courses, as a supplement to another book, or as one of a group of short texts.

Author : David Besanko
Publisher : Wiley
ISBN 13 : 9780471254546
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Economics of Strategy written by David Besanko and published by Wiley. This book was released on 1999-07-20 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A number of peripheral discussions have been eliminated, particular those for which there was substantial mathematics with little insight to show for it. * Chapter on measuring cost and benefit advantage have been eliminated. * Integrates insights from the theory of the firm, industrial organization, and strategy research. * Contains hundreds of examples to illustrate how the economic principles of strategy apply to the actual business world.

Author : Andreas Michael Schühly
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030866602
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Influences on the Process of Strategic Management written by Andreas Michael Schühly and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique book is positioned at the crossroads of strategic management and international business. Based on an in-depth literature review, the author empirically assesses the widely shared, implicit assumption that strategic management processes can be globally applied in a standardized, i.e., culture-free, manner. So far, a variety of tools have also been recommended but without incorporating cultural differences. As many organizations observe that this ethnocentric view is more an illusion than reality, strategic management research has started to focus on the cultural sensitivity of its theories, tools, and processes to provide practitioners in a multicultural setting with adequate know-how and tools. To foster long-term decision-making despite uncertainty, scenario planning is frequently applied by practitioners. Up until today, scenario planning has however gained little attention from the academic community. Through this book, the author presents a newly developed framework for strategic management that combines the cultural value scale to test the cultural sensitivity of the long-term planning tool called “scenario planning.” The different process steps of scenario planning have been individually examined for their sensitivity toward the cultural dimensions of uncertainty avoidance and long-term orientation. The investigation is based on a unique, global set of management consultants working for a leading professional service firm. The results of this research show the cultural sensitivity of scenario planning, with different degrees of the process steps and the tested cultural dimensions.

Author : Herrington J. Bryce
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501505637
Total Pages : 813 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Financial and Strategic Management for Nonprofit Organizations, Fourth Edition written by Herrington J. Bryce and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-01-23 with total page 813 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The highly acclaimed Financial and Strategic Management for Nonprofit Organizations provides an encyclopedic account of all the key financial, legal, and managerial issues facing nonprofit executives. This is today's definitive single-source text and reference for managing any nonprofit organization. Designed for both professional and graduate student readers, this work thoroughly addresses all key aspects of building managerial skill and promoting imagination and innovation in organizations across the nonprofit spectrum. Herrington J. Bryce presents every technique and concept in the context of today's public policies, leading practices, laws, norms, and expectations. Herrington J. Bryce was a senior economist at the Urban Institute, a Brookings Economic Policy Fellow, a Fellow at the Institute of Politics at Harvard and a visiting professor in regional economics and planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He taught micro economic theory and public finance at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, and was director of the program in legal and budget studies at the University College at the University of Maryland. He currently teaches courses at the College of William & Mary in nonprofits but mostly in corporate financial strategy and cost management—heavily reflected in this text. He has published extensively and has served on many state, local and federal government advisory committees. He has a PhD in economics from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University, and a CLU and ChFC from the American College.

Author : Thomas Wunder
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030060144
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Strategic Management written by Thomas Wunder and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-09-06 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers innovative ideas and frameworks for sustainable strategizing to advance business by scaling-up its positive impact, which is so urgently needed at this time in the 21st century. It shows practitioners how to effectively deal with socio-ecological systems’ disruptions to their operating environments and play an active role in transforming markets toward a sustainable future. In short, the book demonstrates how to make business sense of sustainability, highlighting new approaches and examples that translate sustainability into strategy and action. The ultimate goal is to provide a path toward a thriving future for both business and society. This book was written for strategy practitioners and decision makers who want to understand why sustainable strategizing is important in today’s business world and are seeking actionable business knowledge they can apply in their companies. It was also written for students of management and can be used as a supplemental text to support traditional graduate and undergraduate management courses.

Author : John Lipczynski
Publisher : Pearson Education
ISBN 13 : 9780273676256
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Economics of Business Strategy written by John Lipczynski and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2004 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new textbook examines how industry environment and business strategies determine company performance. It provides an introduction to the economics of business strategy, introducing key concepts drawn from microeconomics, industrial organisation, business economics, business environment, organisation studies and strategic management. The book is written for the growing number of courses at MBA, undergraduate, and foundation level where readers require not only an integrated theoretical framework in economics and management, but also the practical skills and knowledge to examine how and why firms behave in certain ways in the real world.