
Advanced Strategic Management
Description
Advanced Strategic Management offers a distinctive evolutionary perspective, unveiling consistent processes that shape competitive dynamics. It goes beyond traditional boundaries, exploring evolutionary trends across industry life cycles, commodity cycles, and the business cycle. Seamlessly integrating analyses of environmental trends and the transformative impact of the digital revolution, the book underscores the crucial role of regulations and taxes in influencing firm-level performance.
A key strength lies in its holistic coverage, encompassing core elements of competitive and corporate strategy while delving deeper into advanced models and tools for strategic evaluation, formulation, and implementation. This depth equips readers, including future business leaders, with a profound understanding of competitive dynamics.
The book's unique approach integrates strategic management with adaptive leadership, offering readers a comprehensive and practical perspective rooted in extensive research and international case examples. This approach ensures global relevance.
Instructors will find the book's wealth of examples, tables, figures, and references invaluable for class preparation. The abundance of statistical data facilitates students' comprehension of evolutionary forces and their impact on competition and performance. The structured pedagogy streamlines teaching, and the addition of PowerPoint slides further enhances its educational utility.
In summary, Advanced Strategic Management is a comprehensive, globally aware, and practically oriented resource that bridges the gap between theory and application. Its innovative approach and rich content make it an indispensable tool for students, educators, and practitioners navigating the complexities of modern strategic management.
Reviews / Votes
"Advanced Strategic Management: A Dynamic Approach to Competition does the seemingly impossible. It manages to be deeply rooted in theory, strongly informed by empirical evidence, and eminently practical -- all at once. It makes the art of strategic management realistic by presenting issues from the vantage point of a strategic leader, without trivializing the firm as a "black box" in which critical decisions and people issues are assumed away or just happen magically. And if that weren't enough, this book provides a truly global perspective in which national context and macroeconomic fluctuations really matter. That the authors managed to string all those essential threads together is remarkable. I expect this to become one of the definitive textbooks on business strategy." (Exequiel (Zeke) Hernandez, Max and Bernice Garchik Family Presidential Professor, The Wharton School)
"Advanced Strategic Management: A Dynamic Approach to Competition provides fresh view of strategizing that is very welcome both for its practical insights as well as for its intellectual ambition and originality. The authors pooled their multi-disciplinary intellectual background and their consulting and entrepreneurial experience to provide a very compelling and clear account of how the competitive efforts of the firm benefit from a blend of dynamic strategic analysis and diagnosis, sound and varied leadership skills and an well-crafted organizational architecture. This book will help managers and entrepreneurs to think more comprehensively about competition and, thus, act more effectively as strategic leaders of their firms. It will also help graduate students to start the thrilling journey to the world of business strategy on very sound footing." (Adrián A. Caldart. Associate Professor of the Practice of Strategic Management, Academic Director of the ONE EMBA, IESE Business School)
"Strategic management and leadership are often treated as distinct activities, requiring different skill sets grounded in divergent disciplines. Advanced Strategic Management upends this perception, offering a rich and deeply persuasive examination of how strategy and leadership are interwoven and interdependent. With insights that are both conceptually novel and practically actionable, this exceptional book is a must-read for all students of strategy, leadership, and management." (Sally Maitlis FBA, Professor of Organizational Behavior & Leadership, University of Oxford)
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Roberto Vassolo is a Full Professor in Strategic Management in the IAE Business School at Universidad Austral, Argentina.
Natalia Weisz is a Full Professor of Organizational Behavior in the IAE Business School at Universidad Austral, Argentina.
Benjamin Laker is a Full Professor of Leadership at Henley Business School at the University of Reading, UK.
Content
Part I: Preparing for the Adventure.- Chapter 1 - The Strategy Playbook: Mastering the Intricacies of Business.- Chapter 2 - Trapped in the Quicksand: Why Strategies Falter.- Part II: Navigating the Competitive Arena.- Chapter 3 - Survival of the Fittest: Decoding Competition and Its Evolution.- Chapter 4 - Venturing into Uncharted Waters: Blue Ocean Strategies for New Industries.- Chapter 5 - Race Against Time: Staying Agile in Rapidly Developing Industries.- Chapter 6 - Red Ocean Depth Maneuvers: Thriving in Mature Markets.- Chapter 7 - The Winning Blueprint: Business Models and Distinctive Capabilities.- Chapter 8 - The Strategy Workshop: Tools for Effective Strategy Formulation.- Part III: Leadership in the maze of industry life cycle.- Chapter 9 - The Adaptive Conductor: A Leadership Framework for Industry Transitions.- Chapter 10 - Shifting Gears: The Developmental Challenge.- Chapter 11 - The Phoenix Effect: The Creative Challenge.- Part IV: The organization's strategy: Managing business portfolio and growth.- Chapter 12 - Portfolio Synergy: Analysis and Assessment.- Chapter 13 - Conquering New Markets: Corporate Growth Strategies.- Chapter 14 - The Executive's Vision: Formulating Corporate Strategy.- Chapter 15 - The organization's structure: Aligning strategy and structure.- Part V: The science of strategy: Insights from advanced strategy dynamics.- Chapter 16 - Navigating the Economic Battlefield: Understanding Competition Amid Macroeconomic Cycles.- Chapter 17 - The Resource Allocation Challenge: Competition in Natural Resource Industries.- Chapter 18 - The Regulatory Maze: Navigating Competition in Highly Regulated, Informal, and Taxed Environments.- Chapter 19 - Competition in a Fragile World: The Environmental Agenda.- Chapter 20 - The Digital Revolution: Harnessing the Power of New Technologies.