Developing Strategies for Change - Brossura

Darwin, John

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ISBN 10: 0273646753 ISBN 13: 9780273646754

Casa editrice: Ft PrenticeHall, 2001

Riassunto

Appropriate for final year undergraduate students in Business and Management Studies and Masters. Also relevant for middle and senior managers, and people working as consultants. The aim of this book is to help the student gain a critical understanding of the core debates in strategy and change. After an exploration of the dominant approaches to strategy, the way in which these approaches relate to change is examined. By exploring how individuals respond to, and understand their own organizations, the authors introduce the concept of management mind sets, which are influenced by the dominant culture of the organisation, to discover how they influence strategic formula and responses to change. Other radical approaches to strategy are also examined.

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L'autore

John Darwin is Principal Lecturer in Strategy and Change. He is Subject Leader in Strategy and Joint Head of the Change Management Research Centre in the School of Business and Finance at Sheffield Hallam University.

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 Developing Strategies for Change provides the reader with a critical understanding of the core debates in strategy and change. After an exploration of the dominant approaches to strategy, the way in which these approaches relate to those of change is examined. The concept of management mindsets – influenced by the dominant culture of the organisation – is introduced to discover how these mindsets influence strategy formulation and responses to change. This book also explores the key themes in radical views of strategy, presenting a challenging view of chaos, turbulence, and the sorts of approaches required of the manager that go beyond rationalist recipes in developing strategy and managing change. Developing Strategies for Change will be suitable reading for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of strategic and change management.    FEATURES and BENEFITS:

• Critiques ‘rationalist’ approaches to strategy and extends the discussion of ‘new approaches’, giving students a much deeper understanding of strategy as a complex and subjective process.  

• Develops student understanding of the relationship between strategy and change, so that students can develop methods of diagnosis to help them manage the inevitable tensions in the real business world.  

• Analyzes the roles of culture and power in management thinking and action – thus developing student awareness of these issues as important aspects of the discourse of strategy and change.  

• Critical theory approach encourages the development of active reflection – teaching students that new ways of thinking can lead to improved strategy formation and more innovative approaches to change in practice.  

• Presents a wider range of issues on strategy, change and critical theory than is found elsewhere, thus providing students with the most comprehensive, up-to-date exploration of the subject.  

• Vignettes and examples of global companies throughout the book provide an accessible, learning-oriented resource and help students relate the theory to the real business world.  

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Ft PrenticeHall
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0273646753
• ISBN 13: 9780273646754
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 360