David Edgar, George Stonehouse

Business Strategy (eBook, PDF)

An Introduction

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Business Strategy is a compact, plain-speaking textbook for those approaching strategy for the first time. Key features include: international case studies; chapters on current issues such as CSR, emerging markets and new technologies; hot topics: research project areas to investigate, and guru guides: bite-sized bios of key thinkers in the field.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780230344396
• Artikelnr.: 47860087

Autorenporträt

DAVID CAMPBELL is Professor of Accounting and Business Ethics at Newcastle University Business School, UK

DAVID EDGAR is Professor of Strategy and Business Transformation in the Department of Management at Glasgow Caledonian University, UK

GEORGE STONEHOUSE is Professor of Strategic Management and Dean of Edinburgh Napier University Business School, UK

Inhaltsangabe

PART I: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STRATEGIC PROCESS.- Strategy and strategic management.- Perspectives on strategy.- PART II: INTERNAL ANALYSIS.- The business context, products and services.- Business competences, activities and processes.- Knowledge, talent, culture and innovation.- Financial analysis, audit and performance.- Information systems and technology.- Strengths, weaknesses and strategic competence.- PART III: EXTERNAL ANALYSIS.- Analysis of the macroenvironment.- Markets, and analysis of the competitive environment.- The international and global context.- Opportunities, threats and strategic position.- PART IV: THE BUSINESS STRATEGY.- Competitive advantage and strategy.- Evaluation and selection of strategies.- Strategic development: direction and mechanisms.- PART V: STRATEGIC IMPLEMENTATION AND MANAGEMENT.- Strategic implementation.- Change management and leadership.- PART VI: CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN BUSINESS STRATEGY.- The web, new technology and new organisational forms.- Quality.- Social responsibility and business ethics.- Emerging markets and industry superpowers.- Index.