The Strategic Manager
Understanding Strategy in Practice
by Harry Sminia
3rd Edition
Publisher: Routledge
Book Details
| Print ISBN | 9780367468064 |
| eText ISBN | 9781000412727 |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Publishing Year | 2021 |
| Edition | 3rd Edition |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 222 |
The Strategic Manager: Understanding Strategy in Practice, 3rd Edition, examines strategic management through six core theoretical perspectives, helping readers evaluate strategy processes and strategic decision-making.
The volume introduces foundational concepts alongside specific approaches, including marketing-inspired strategic thinking, industrial organization, the resource-based view, agency theory, stakeholder politics, and institutional theory.
Designed for postgraduate students, MBA candidates, executive education participants, and practicing managers, the textbook pairs theoretical discussions with question lists intended to build strategic thinking skills.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Strategic Management Basics
Chapter 2: Marketing-inspired Strategic Thinking
- • Case 2.1: Miele
Chapter 3: The Industrial Organization Approach
- • Case 3.1: Spotify
Chapter 4: The Resource-based View
- • Case 4.1: Macy’s
Chapter 5: Agency Theory & Shareholder Value
- • Case 5.1: Judges Scientific
Chapter 6: Stakeholders & Organizational Politics
- • Case 6.1: Inditex
Chapter 7: Institutional Theory and Organizational Culture
- • Case 7.1: Waymo
Chapter 8: Similarities, Differences and Underlying Assumptions
- • Case 8.1: De La Rue
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