Economics Meets Sociology In Strategic Management

Author : Joel A. C. Baum
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780762306640
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Economics Meets Sociology in Strategic Management written by Joel A. C. Baum and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do firms do what they do? Why do some strategies rise while others fall? These are central concerns of both strategic management theorists and economic sociologists. This book brings together distinguished authors from both fields in an illuminating interdisciplinary dialogue. -- from back cover.

Author : Noel A.C. Baum
Publisher : JAI Press Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780762307210
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Multiunit Organization and Multimarket Strategy written by Noel A.C. Baum and published by JAI Press Incorporated. This book was released on 2001-06-15 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A conspicuous feature of the modern economy is the multitude of multiunit systems that operate in several markets - an organizational form that arguably rivals the "M-form" as the 20th century's most successful. This text draws various ideas together to present possible developments.

Author : T. K. Das
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1681236591
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Decision Making in Behavioral Strategy written by T. K. Das and published by IAP. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behavioral strategy continues to attract increasing research interest within the broader field of strategic management. Research in behavioral strategy has clear scope for development in tandem with such traditional streams of strategy research that involve economics, markets, resources, and technology. The key roles of psychology, organizational behavior, and behavioral decision making in the theory and practice of strategy have yet to be comprehensively grasped. Given that strategic thinking and strategic decision making are importantly concerned with human cognition, human decisions, and human behavior, it makes eminent sense to bring some balance in the strategy field by complementing the extant emphasis on the “objective’ economics-based view with substantive attention to the “subjective” individual-oriented perspective. This calls for more focused inquiries into the role and nature of the individual strategy actors, and their cognitions and behaviors, in the strategy research enterprise. For the purposes of this book series, behavioral strategy would be broadly construed as covering all aspects of the role of the strategy maker in the entire strategy field. The scholarship relating to behavioral strategy is widely believed to be dispersed in diverse literatures. These existing contributions that relate to behavioral strategy within the overall field of strategy has been known and perhaps valued by most scholars all along, but were not adequately appreciated or brought together as a coherent sub-field or as a distinct perspective of strategy. This book series on Research in Behavioral Strategy will cover the essential progress made thus far in this admittedly fragmented literature and elaborate upon fruitful streams of scholarship. More importantly, the book series will focus on providing a robust and comprehensive forum for the growing scholarship in behavioral strategy. In particular, the volumes in the series will cover new views of interdisciplinary theoretical frameworks and models (dealing with all behavioral aspects), significant practical problems of strategy formulation, implementation, and evaluation, and emerging areas of inquiry. The series will also include comprehensive empirical studies of selected segments of business, economic, industrial, government, and non-profit activities with potential for wider application of behavioral strategy. Through the ongoing release of focused topical titles, this book series will seek to disseminate theoretical insights and practical management information that will enable interested professionals to gain a rigorous and comprehensive understanding of the subject of behavioral strategy. Decision Making in Behavioral Strategy contains contributions by leading scholars in the field of behavioral strategy research. The 10 chapters in this volume cover a number of significant issues relating to the decision making processes, practices, and perspectives in the field of behavioral strategy, covering diverse topics such as failures in acquisitions, entrepreneurs under ambiguity, metacognition, neural correlates of emotion, knowledge flows, behavioral responses, business modeling, and alliance capability. The chapters include empirical as well as conceptual treatments of the selected topics, and collectively present a wide-ranging review of the noteworthy research perspectives on decision making in behavioral strategy.

Author : Andrew M Pettigrew
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9781412921213
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Strategy and Management written by Andrew M Pettigrew and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2006-04-27 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available as a 60 day review copy in Paperback! ISBN: 1-4129-2121-X"Finally! We have a comprehensive, reflective and critical overview of the field of strategy in the new Handbook of Strategy and Management." -Cynthia Hardy, Head of Department of Management, University of Melbourne Presenting a major retrospective and prospective overview of strategy, this Handbook is an important benchmark volume for management scholars worldwide. The Handbook frames, assesses and synthesizes the work in the field. Chapters are grouped under four specific areas of strategy and management: Mapping a Terrain; Thinking and Acting Strategically; Changing Contexts; and Looking Forward. Within these parts, leading international scholars provide historical overviews of the key themes, address the central approaches which have characterized these themes, critically assess the quality of current theory and knowledge, and set out agendas for future theoretical and empirical development. The resulting volume is a unique overview of the inputs and dynamics to shape strategy and management and will be crucial reference for academics and students.

Author : Andreas Rasche
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 379081976X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Paradoxical Foundation of Strategic Management written by Andreas Rasche and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-10-25 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At last – a systematic critique of the scientific discourse of strategic management. This fantastic book uncovers scholars' unquestioned assumptions and shows that by upholding these assumptions researchers obscure the paradoxical nature of strategic reasoning. To uncover the paradoxes of strategic management the author refers to the philosophy of Jacques Derrida. He delves into the internal contradictions that inevitably occur when theorizing about corporate strategy along the dimensions strategy context, process, and content and shows how these paradoxes can enrich future thinking about strategic problems.

Author : Hashem Aghazadeh
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137548339
Total Pages : 703 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Principles of Marketology, Volume 2 written by Hashem Aghazadeh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-04-28 with total page 703 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Principles of Marketology, Volume 2 focuses on the practical aspect and demonstrates the applications of marketology referring to market orientation, internal marketing, business, market and competitive analysis concepts and techniques. Then the modern marketology and its developments in the future are discussed. At the of this volume as the appendix, a handbook of marketology is presented in which a practical manual including simple and summarized descriptions of different needed parts and worksheets for executing marketology in an organization is depicted.

Author : Reza Azarian
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230596711
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The General Sociology of Harrison C. White written by Reza Azarian and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-11-30 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harrison C. White is one of American sociology's pre-eminent thinkers, yet until now his endeavour to develop a general theoretical perspective on the basis of social network analysis has remained largely unexamined. This book opens out for the first time White's contribution to those interested generally in his social network approach, but daunted by the complexity and mathematical modelling often employed in his published work. Special attention is paid to White's model of production markets, as an application of his general sociology. The book draws on interview material with White himself, as well as with several of his past students.

Author : W Richard Scott
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317345916
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Organizations and Organizing written by W Richard Scott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-07 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This broad, balanced introduction to organizational studies enables the reader to compare and contrast different approaches to the study of organizations. This book is a valuable tool for the reader, as we are all intertwined with organizations in one form or another. Numerous other disciplines besides sociology are addressed in this book, including economics, political science, strategy and management theory. Topic areas discussed in this book are the importance of organizations; defining organizations; organizations as rational, natural, and open systems; environments, strategies, and structures of organizations; and organizations and society. For those employed in fields where knowledge of organizational theory is necessary, including sociology, anthropology, cognitive psychology, industrial engineering, managers in corporations and international business, and business strategists.

Author : Adrian Wilkinson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191018953
Total Pages : 750 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Management written by Adrian Wilkinson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Management, the pursuit of objectives through the organization and co-ordination of people, has been and is a core feature-and function-of modern society. Some 'classic' forms of corporate and bureaucratic management may be seen as the prevalent form of organization and organizing in the 20th century, but in the post-Fordist, global, knowledge-driven contemporary world we are seeing different patterns, principles, and styles of management as old models are questioned. The functions, ideologies, practices, and theories of management have changed over time, as recorded by many scholars, and may vary according to different models of organization, and between different cultures and societies. Whilst the administrative, corporate, or factory manager may be a figure on the wane, management as an ethos, organizing principle, culture, and field of academic teaching and research has increased dramatically in the last half century, and spread throughout the world. The purpose of this Handbook is to analyse and explore the evolution of management; the core functions and how they may have changed; its position in the culture/zeitgeist of modern society; the institutions and ideologies that support it; and likely challenges and changes in the future. This book looks at what management is, and how this may change over time. It provides an overview of management - its history, development, context, changing function in organization and society, key elements and functions, and contemporary and future challenges.

Author : Michael John Bloomfield
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262536005
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dirty Gold written by Michael John Bloomfield and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The response from the jewelry industry to a campaign for ethically sourced gold as a case study in the power of business in global environmental politics. Gold mining can be a dirty business. It creates immense amounts of toxic materials that are difficult to dispose of. Mines are often developed without community consent, and working conditions for miners can be poor. Income from gold has funded wars. And consumers buy wedding rings and gold chains not knowing about any of this. In Dirty Gold, Michael Bloomfield shows what happened when Earthworks, a small Washington-based NGO, launched a campaign for ethically sourced gold in the consumer jewelry market, targeting Tiffany and other major firms. The unfolding of the campaign and its effect on the jewelry industry offer a lesson in the growing influence of business in global environmental politics. Earthworks planned a “shame” campaign, aimed at the companies' brands and reputations, betting that firms like Tiffany would not want to be associated with pollution, violence, and exploitation. As it happened, Tiffany contacted Earthworks before they could launch the campaign; the company was already looking for partners in finding ethically sourced gold. Bloomfield examines the responses of three companies to “No Dirty Gold” activism: Tiffany, Wal-Mart, and Brilliant Earth, a small company selling ethical jewelry. He finds they offer a case study in how firms respond to activist pressure and what happens when businesses participate in such private governance schemes as the “Golden Rules” and the “Conflict-Free Gold Standard.” Taking a firm-level view, Bloomfield examines the different opportunities for and constraints on corporate political mobilization within the industry.