"The book outlines the author's favored approach to creating a business development strategy for the upstream oil and gas industry. It starts with a description of the industry and explains why business development in upstream oil and gas is distinct from other industries and should be...

A Brookings Institution Press and Chatham House publication Ninety percent of the world's oil reserves are entrusted to state-owned companies. Originally created as political instruments, these so-called national oil companies (NOCs) face new demands amid today's dwindling oil reserves and...

The role of strategic management is to handle the day-to-day needs of the firms with respect to current events of fluctuating markets so that they can effectively reach to their pre-planned, long-term goals. This study aims to explain the steps taken to design a new conceptual framework in the...