Sustaining High Performance in Business: Systems, Resources, and Stakeholders (Issn) - Softcover

Harrison, Jeffrey S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1951527763 ISBN 13: 9781951527761

Verlag: Business Expert Press, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

Many books and articles have been written about how firms can achieve and sustain high performance. They typically focus on a particular aspect of the firm such as its culture, resources, leadership, ability to learn, human resources practices, or communications systems. Often the very firms that are used as examples of high performance are no longer high performing even a few years later.

In contrast, this book asserts that it is the efficiency and effectiveness of a firm's entire value creating system that determines its performance over the long term. Systems theory is used as an integrative mechanism to combine the best ideas from industrial organization economics, the resource-based perspective, and stakeholder theory.

Based on this theoretical foundation, tools are provided for conducting in-depth, detailed analyses of each part of a firm's value creation system and its effectiveness in contributing to the total stakeholder value created by the firm. Systems assessment based on this information then leads to the development of strategies, including specific initiatives for overcoming weaknesses in the system and for creating new value for stakeholders. The book also provides guidance for developing detailed plans and a strategic control system to make sure strategies and initiatives are implemented. An underlying theme is that the purpose of a firm is to create value for its stakeholders: customers, employees, shareholders, suppliers, and the communities in which the firm operates. This book provides a concise, yet complete guide for strategic management.

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Jeffrey Harrison is a University Distinguished Educator and the W. David Robbins Chair of Strategic Management at the Robins School of Business, University of Richmond. His research on strategic management and stakeholder theory is contained in 13 books and dozens of articles published in the most highly regarded journals. It has been cited over 21,000 times, according to Google Scholar. Dr. Harrison is an editor at Journal of Business Ethics and sits on several prestigious editorial boards. He has consulted and provided training to dozens of organizations in the U.S., South America and Asia on a wide range of strategic, entrepreneurial and other business issues.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Business Expert Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1951527763
• ISBN 13: 9781951527761
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 188
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Mare Nostrum Group B.V.; gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk; ; Doelen 72; Breda; 4831 GR; Niederlande