Business strategy

Edith Penrose is best known for The Theory of the Growth of the Firm, originally published in 1959, but she made major contributions in other fields, including patents, the oil industry, and development economics.

Coming more than 25 years after the last edition, this edition of the groundbreaking Ansoff work on the concepts and practical implementation of strategic management provides up-to-date case studies and simplified figures and offers a comprehensive approach to guiding firms through turbulent environments.

This volume, first published in 1988, examines the challenge to management which is posed by ever more sophisticated applications of information technology.

Especially after globalization, it can be seen that there is an increase in competition for almost all industries.

Environment, health and safety (EHS) management has become increasingly important in the past 10 years, especially within high risk and high reliability organizations.

The three pillars of sustainability - Environmental protection, Social sustainability, and Economic sustainability - are well known since the Brunndtland Commission report.

This book examines the role of competence, organization and strategies of firms in industrial dynamics linking economic, management and historical perspectives.

Social media has already transformed society.

This Handbook presents opportunities, best practices, and case studies backed by cutting edge research on the drivers of continuous improvement of health, safety, and wellbeing in the architecture, engineering, construction, and facility management sector.

The choice of financial performance measures is one of the most critical challenges facing organizations.

Recent cases of corporate failures, including the fixing of LIBOR rates and money laundering issues in the banking industry, highlight how behavioural issues on the part of company directors are significant contributory factors in corporate governance and the success or failure of companies.

This book discusses initiatives intended to promote strategic flexibility, resilience, sustainability, and information system flexibility and analytics, through AI, HR analytics, employee attrition using perspectives from machine learning, agile competencies, agile organization, digital recruitment, e-governance, cyber security controls, and cyber security risk management.

Organizations are a part of everyday life, whether in schools, hospitals, police stations or commercial companies.

Offering real-world insight and explanations, this book provides a roadmap for organizations looking to develop a profitable big data strategy and reveals why it's not something they can leave to the I.

Exploring the concept of win-win agreements, this book analyses how they pose an important challenge for entrepreneurs, managers and advisors involved in complex negotiations among firms.

One current challenge of conducting research from the leadership-as-practice perspective is a practical one: how to capture and analyse the elusive practice of leadership within the web of mundane organising processes.

This volume of Advances in Strategic Management explores emerging trends and contemporary research in the field of organization design.

Digital Governance provides managers with a simple and jargon-free introduction to the impact that digital technology can have on the governance of their organisations.

What if you discovered a blueprint that could grow your brand's reputation and loyalty, dramatically reduce customer service issues, produce content and technology, and cement a powerful, lasting relationship between you and your customers?

Damit die digitale Transformation nachhaltig gelingt, ist ein ganzheitliches Vorgehen erforderlich.

The 43 papers in this collection, originally published from 1972 to 1987 delve into accounting, observing and exploring its functioning.

This book discusses the proper use of legal language in business communication.

This book connects a buying psychology driven by American beliefs and values with a company's go-to market strategy, the goal being to sensitize readers to how the cultural values of a particular country or region can impact the business environment.

Although 'VUCA' is not a new term, the features of the world it describes, a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous environment, have never been more valid.

The definition of a consultant is someone who facilitates organisational change and provides expertise on technical, functional and business topics during development or implementation.

Filling a gap in the current literature, this book addresses the social approach to the design and use of innovative business models in the digital economy.

This book provides a detailed look at the birth, growth and expansion of African Multinational Enterprises (AMNEs).

Knowledge and Practice in Business and Organisations contributes to scholarly understanding of knowledge and practice, mapping the conceptual terrain, providing a critical review of debates in the field and setting out key theoretical perspectives.

Organizational success crucially depends on having a superior strategy and effectively implementing it.

Norges Bank has been an integrated part of Norwegian economic development from the complicated birth of the new nation-state after the Napoleonic wars to the present nouveau-richness of the Norwegian oil economy.

This highly original book aims to broaden the discussion about risk, the management of risk and regulation, especially in the financial industry.

Für Lennart und Gitti Ein weiterer Baustein, um eine Welt zu schaffen in der wir und andere gerne leben wollen.

Due to the adverse outcomes of the recent global recession and the public deficit crisis in the USA and Europe, Western companies can expect flattening or declining sales in their domestic markets.

Social Capital, the advantage created by location in social structure, is a critical element in business strategy.

Published in 1986: The Fundamental Principles of that curious and approved Method are clearly and fully explained and demonstrated, from the Nature and Reason of Things: From which again is deduced a completed system of particular rules, and instructions for their Application to a Merchant's Business, considered as acting either for his own proper accounts; or in Commission, as factor for another.

Project managers tend to believe their cost estimates - whether they have exceeded budgets in the past or not.

This book explores the workplace experiences, opportunities, and challenges that emerge from the nuances of diversity and inclusion dynamics in Latin American and Caribbean countries.

SHORTLISTED: CMI Management Book of the Year 2017 - Management Futures CategoryUnderstand how to drive business performance with your organizational data and analytics in the second edition of Data-Driven Organization Design.

This book discusses the most critical issues relating to the recovery of bad loans - a major problem that European banks urgently need to address and resolve.

The rush of entrepreneurial activity in China has been watched with interest by the financial world.

Dieses Buch verschafft auf theoretisch und empirisch fundierter Basis einen umfangreichen Einblick in die gegenwärtige Ausgestaltung mittelständischer Geschäftsmodelle sowie darauf aufbauender mittelstandsspezifischer Ansatzpunkte und Ausgestaltungsformen von Geschäftsmodellinnovationen.

Fifteen years after its commercial launching, the Internet has become the second most imp- tant distribution channel (after high street retailing) and a major source of customer infor- tion and empowerment (Urban 2003, 2005; Constantinides/Fountain 2008).

A few square miles of Northern California contain some of the world's largest companies whose products affect billions of people every single day.