The creation of innovative products and services by entrepreneurs is often cited as one of the key strengths of the current American economy. Academics and executives alike are beginning to recognize the advantages of innovation and real-time experimentation over traditional strategic planning...

Author of the bestselling text Supply Chain Management, John T. Mentzer's companion book Fundamentals of Supply Chain Management: Twelve Drivers of Competitive Advantage has been developed as a supplemental text for any course dealing with strategy and supply chains. Written in an entertaining,...

Human Resource Strategy provides an overview of the academic and practitioner responses to these and other questions. Applying an integrative framework, the authors review twenty years' worth of empirical and theoretical research in an attempt to reconcile often-conflicting conceptual models and...

Adapting To Environmental Challenges: New Research In Strategy And International Businessprovides new perspectives to understand strategic adaptation in international business contexts based on corporate responsible behavior and cultural sensitivity as the ingredients for agile operations and a...

Cover -- Contents -- 1 Introduction: A tale of two cities -- Working with the tensions -- What this book offers you as a leader -- My story and my sources -- 2 When strategy gets risky -- Crossing a road -- Why strategies don't make choices -- Linear strategic thinking -- The problem is in the...

Cover -- EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD -- Research on Chinese school of modern GUANLI science -- Critical management issues in China's socio-economic transformation -- Cost-benefit analysis for regenerative energy storage in metro -- Environmental risk perception and its influence on well-being --...

Cover -- EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD -- Guest editorial -- Transformational leadership and cultural minorities: a conceptual model -- Chain coordinators' strategic leadership and coordination effectiveness -- Influence of evolving culture on leadership: a study of Fijian cooperatives -- "My...

FrontMatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Summary -- 1 Context -- 2 Forces Affecting the Federal Government: Implications for Facilities Asset Management in 2020 -- 3 Core Competencies for Federal Facilities Asset Management -- 4 A Comprehensive Strategy for Workforce Development...

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: Effectiveness, Agility and Speed are Key in Strategy Execution -- 1.1 Today's No. 1 Challenge is to Innovate Faster -- 1.2 Organizations Suck at Strategy Execution -- 1.3 The New Normal -- 1.4...

Intro -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgements and thanks -- Introduction -- 1 Why do we want a benefits management framework? -- 2 Purpose of a benefits management framework -- 3 The components of a benefits management framework -- 4...