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Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Studying Strategy

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ISBN-10: 1412947871

ISBN-13: 9781412947879

Edition: 2008

Authors: Chris Carter, Stewart R. Clegg, Martin Kornberger

List price: $35.00
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Readers searching for an antidote to heavy-going, complex and lengthy textbooks need look no longer. A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Studying Strategy is a welcoming, lively and thought provoking account of strategy. It will help students get to grips with strategy's key issues and broad debates and introduce them to the latesting ideas that won't yet have been covered in the classroom. Organized into three sections, concepts are made accessible as the authors first recap the history of strategy as an academic discipline, then evaluate major schools of strategic thought and conclude by critiquing the latest developments in strategic research. …    
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Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Limited
Publication date: 2/18/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.75" long x 0.38" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

Professor Chris Carter isfrom Cornwall, he teaches strategy at the University of St Andrews and alsoholds a visiting fellowship at the University of Technology, Sydney. Hisresearch explores the politics of strategy and campaigns. Chris received hisPhD in Organization Theory from Aston Business School. nbsp; He lives in Edinburgh.

Stewart Clegg is a prolific publisher of several hundred articles in leading academic journals in strategy, social science, management and organization theory; is also the author and editor of about fifty books, as well as a Fellow of the British Academy of Social Sciences, a Distinguished Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management, a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, and the recipient of significant awards from the American Academy of Management for his contributions to management theory and practice.

Martin Kornberger received his PhD form the University of Vienna in 2002. Currently he works as full time Visiting Professor at the Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School. Trained as philosopher, he researches and teaches about practices of organizing, strategizing, accounting, and marketing, and explores how they shape, and are shaped by, the economy and society at large.

Once Upon A Time
Planning the Future in Turbulent Environments
Strategy = Understanding What's Outside the Firm
Strategy = Understanding What's Inside the Firm
Strategy Is Dead. Long Live Scenario Planning!
Strategy = Emergence and Rational Planning
Strategy Is What Strategists Do! Strategy as Practice
Gaps, Rhetoric and Realities
The Futures of Strategy