Strategic management
Strategic management Textbook
Corporate Strategy Tools for Analysis and Decision-Making Phanish Puranam INSEAD, Singapore
and Bart Vanneste University College London
This concise textbook arms students and managers with the tools needed to make good decisions on corporate strategy issues and to perform sound analysis of the corporate strategy decisions of others. A rich companion website with downloadable tools, case materials and current examples from the media is also included. Contents: Acknowledgements; Introduction: what this book is about and how to use it; Part I. Foundations: 1. Corporate advantage; 2. Synergies: benefits to collaboration; 3. Governance costs: impediments to collaboration; Part II. Decisions about Portfolio Composition: Increasing the Scope of the Corporation: 4. Diversification; 5. Ally or acquire?; 6. Organic or inorganic growth?; Part III. Decisions about Portfolio Composition: Reducing the Scope of the Corporation: 7. Refocusing; 8. Divestiture: stay or exit; 9. Outsourcing: make or buy; Part IV. Decisions about
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Portfolio Organization: 10. Designing the multi-business corporation; 11. Designing corporate headquarters; 12. Managing the M&A process; 13. Managing the alliance process; Index. 2016 228 x 152 mm 180pp 62 b/w illus. 28 tables 978-1-107-12091-4 Hardback £59.99 / US$94.99 978-1-107-54404-8 Paperback £29.99 / US$49.99 Publication February 2016 For all formats available, see
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Crisis, Resilience and Survival Lessons from the Global Auto Industry Matthias Holweg University of Oxford
and Nick Oliver University of Edinburgh Business School
Crisis, Resilience and Survival charts the evolution of the global automotive industry, revealing the pressures and challenges facing firms engaged in this huge but turbulent realm of business. It uses high-profile cases to explore how scale, market reach and supportive stakeholder relations can make the difference between success and failure. ‘This book is essential reading for followers of the industry, including journalists and investment analysts. Using their decades of deep experience in analysing the business, the authors take an unusually sophisticated approach to their topic. They have crafted a book which avoids the usual temptation to oversimplify the complexities of an industry that is huge in scale, truly global and still
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