Strategy and Strategists - Softcover

Cunningham, James; Harney, Brian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199219710 ISBN 13: 9780199219711

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2012

Synopsis

Strategy and Strategists provides an illuminating exploration of strategy and its implications for business. Adopting a critical and reflective approach, the authors guide the reader through the complexities of strategy, clearly presenting the conflicting viewpoints and arguments in this exciting and fast-moving field.

Business examples throughout the text elucidate strategy theory, providing future managers and executives with the awareness and knowledge necessary to test perspectives and draw their own conclusions. Linking literature to contemporary developments, this engaging textbook is invaluable reading for all students of strategy.

Online Resource Center:

For Lecturers:

PowerPoint Slides
Teaching notes for mini-cases and end of chapter cases
Guide to answering questions on readings
Answers to discussion questions
Sample examination questions
All figures from the book

For Students:

Multiple choice questions
Updates to the case studies
Annotated weblinks
Guidance to further readings

About this title

About the Author:

James Cunningham is Director of Centre for Innovation and Structural Change at the J.E. Cairns School of Business, National University of Ireland, Galway. He is a senior lecturer in Strategic Management and has received a number of awards for his research including two best paper awards at the British Academy of Management Conferences (2002 and 2005), and a best paper award at the Irish Academy of Management Conference (2003). He is the co editor of Irish Management 2.0 (2008).

Brian Harney is a Research Assistant at Dublin City University. His research interests include HRM in smaller firms, high performance work systems and critical realism.

Review:

"With an emphasis on strategists and strategy implementation, this distinctive and valuable textbook avoids offering prescriptive quick fix approaches, providing readers with the confidence to question what strategy can and cannot do for an organization."--Charles C. Snow, Mellon Foundation Professor of Business Administration, Pennsylvania State University

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0199219710
• ISBN 13: 9780199219711
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 720