Richard Whittington Knihy

Focusing on strategic thinking, this text delves into critical issues related to organizational operation, growth, and innovation. The inclusion of longer case studies in the Text & Cases edition enhances students' understanding of managerial perspectives, providing them with valuable insights into real-world applications of strategic concepts.

This title includes coverage of key topic areas in this fast-moving discipline such as internationalization, mergers, innovation and entrepreneurship, and corporate strategy and diversification. It is written for students of strategic management at all levels.

The text of Exploring Corporate Strategy is supplemented by a selection of case studies from International and European companies, underpinning the important concepts and principles of corporate strategy and strategic management. The text covers all the underlying concepts, analytical methods and practical implications of corporate strategy, showing how they can be applied successfully to organizations. decisions are important, the authors view corporate strategy in two ways - as a matter of economic analysis and planning, and as a matter of organizational decision making within a social, political and cultural process. Building on the practice of good strategic management, the text should help managers to take decisions about change, and implement change with assurance and skill. The different approaches to formulating strategy are also discussed. processes; more integrated treatment of cultural context of strategy; and critique of Porter's generic strategies and market driven framework for considering generic strategies.

In his introduction to this book on corporate strategy, Richard Whittington makes the point that the great number of published books on strategic management all cover much the same ground and present similar recipes for success, and few indulge in self-questioning. If it was really as easy as that, managers would only need to read a few books in order to ensure they never make mistakes. Reality, however, is that in the world of business many of the most well-accepted models of strategic action have met with spectacular failure.

This book synthesises research on violence for researchers and policy makers to inform future practice. Those who are interested in human conflict and how to reduce it are offered an alternative picture of the causes of violence through a combination of findings from anthropology, genetics, psychology, psychiatry and criminology.

Strategisches Management - Eine Einführung , die deutsche Ausgabe des internationalen Standardwerks von Gerry Johnson, Richard Whittington und Kevan Scholes, vermittelt umfassend und verständlich die Grundlagen und Notwendigkeiten strategischen Handelns für Unternehmen aus internationalem und nationalem Blickwinkel heraus. Erreicht wird dies durch einen umfangreichen theoretischen Grundlagenteil und einem Fundus von über 100 nationalen und internationen Fallstudien aus den Wirtschaftsräumen Deutschland, Europa, USA und Schwellenländern wie China und Indien (wie z. B. Aldi, Axel Spirnger Verlag, Deutsche Post, eBay, GM und Tata Motors). Der übersichtliche Aufbau des sehr umfangreichen Buchs mit vielen Darstellungen, Exkursen und Aufgaben sorgt für einen schnellen Gesamtüberblick, bietet die Möglichkeit der gezielten Prüfungsvorbereitung und lädt zum Nachschlagen ein. Wegen der internationalen Sichtweise wird das Lehrwerk weltweit an führenden Business-Schools und wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultäten eingesetzt.