Knowledge Creation and Management or The Strategy Reader

Knowledge Creation and Management: New Challenges for Managers

Author: Kazuo Ichijo

This book presents the latest management ideas in knowledge creation and management in readable and non-technical chapters.Leading experts have contributed chapters in their fields of expertise. Each distils his or her subject in a chapter that is accessible to managers who want to learn what can be applied to their organizations without the distracting details of research methodology. Each chapter, however, is based on careful research. The book is organized so that readers can easily find chapters of most interest and value to them. The emphasis is on the practical applications of knowledge to a wide variety of organizations and functional areas.

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The Strategy Reader

Author: Susan Segal Horn

The second edition of this successful Strategy Reader retains many of the classic readings from the previous edition, such as those by Porter, Mintzberg, Grant, Hamel and Prahalad, while adding more recent top-quality articles by prominent international scholars such as Shapiro, Teece, Hitt and Miller.

New topics covered include corporate social responsibility, new technology, ethics, strategic alliances, corporate parenting, diversification, and chaos/complexity theory.

Guides students through the literature with extensive editorial commentary.

Provides an ideal accompaniment to any major strategy textbook.

Also of interest to managers seeking to broaden their understanding of the strategic issues facing their organization.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction : the development of strategic management thought	1
1	Of strategies, deliberate and emergent	17
2	Strategy as stretch and leverage	29
3	What is strategy?	41
4	How much does industry matter?	69
5	Strategic planning as if ethics mattered	86
6	Green and competitive : ending the stalemate	107
7	On the limits of a firm-based theory to explain business networks : the western bias of neo-classical economics	124
8	The art of standards wars	140
9	The core competence of the corporation	166
10	The resource-based theory of competitive advantage : implications for strategy formulation	177
11	Strategic assets and organizational rent	195
12	Dynamic capabilities and strategic management	211
13	The structuring of organizations	246
14	Creating a sense of mission	270
15	Managing strategic change : strategy, culture and action	279
16	Strategic product creation : managing new interactions of technology, markets and organizations	293
17	Corporate strategy and parenting theory	324
18	Related diversification, core competences and corporate performance	335
19	Developing and managing strategic alliances, building social capital and creating value	355
20	Global strategy : an organizing framework	377
21	Preparing for the future : evolution of the transnational	395
22	The internationalization of service firms	411
23	Entrepreneurship in multinational corporations : the characteristics of subsidiary initiatives	430
24	The Icarus paradox : how exceptional companies bring about their own downfall	461
25	Surfing the edge of chaos	477
26	Perspectives on strategy	491