*Shortlisted for the CMI Management Book of the Year*
Practicing Strategy is a groundbreaking new textbook focusing on the strategy-as-practice approach, which considers strategy not only as something an organisation has but something which its members do.
Practicing Strategy is a groundbreaking new textbook focusing on the strategy-as-practice approach, which considers strategy not only as something an organisation has but something which its members do. is a groundbreaking new textbook focusing on the strategy-as-practice approach, which considers strategy not only as something an organisation has but something which its members do.
By bringing together a number of distinctive investigations of strategy practice, this book will enrich your understanding of the dynamic process through which organizational strategies are created and executed.
Key features:
- The first textbook to be based on insights from the strategy-as-practice perspective, making it an ideal core text for related modules
- Packed with real-life mini case studies and a final section containing longer cases from Apple, Centrica, Marconi, Lafarge and Wikimedia, relating theory to practice
- Chapters include learning objectives, summaries, discussion questions and further readings and a Companion Website contains additional online readings, to consolidate your learning and encourage in-depth analysis.
Practicing strategy is an invaluable text for undergraduate and postgraduate students of advanced strategy modules.
Electronic Inspection Copy available for instructors here
Visit the Companion Website at www.sagepub.co.uk/paroutis
Sotirios Paroutis is Professor of Strategic Management and Head of the Strategy and International Business Group at the Warwick Business School. His research interests lie at the intersections of strategy practices and processes in complex organizational settings in the UK and globally. He uses qualitative and quantitative methods to examine the discursive, cognitive and visual activities organizational actors employ when dealing with strategic tensions. Loizos Heracleous is a professor of strategy and organization at Warwick Business School. He earned a PhD from the University of Cambridge and a higher doctorate for lifetime contributions to his field from the University of Warwick. His research has been published in over 70 articles and nine books. His areas of interest include organizational change and development, organizational discourse, and corporate governance.
Duncan Angwin is the Sir Roland Smith Professor in Strategic Management at Lancaster University. He earned his PhD from the University of Warwick. He researches strategic practices in M&A and has recently completed a major EU-funded research project on European M&A. He holds a major research award at Said Business School, Oxford University, to study M&A communications practices. Duncan sits on the Advisory Boards of the M&A research centre, Cass Business School and a Grand Ecole business school, Paris and is senior judge for the Management Consulting Association. Duncan has published eight books and fifty journal articles on strategy and M&A.
More information can be found at www.duncanangwin.com
Duncan can be reached at d.n.angwin@lancaster.ac.uk
