Stresses that a resource‐based view is not one integrated perspective, rather it is a confluence of renewed academic thinking on this subject. Proclaims that the resource‐based view focuses, primarily, on the resources and capabilities that a company has and only secondarily on the...

Contends that to be a success businesses need both to create and capture value — but the processes for doing each are fundamentally different. Argues that business should be seen as a game and games have players, proposing a framework that helps strategists to broaden their thinking by...

Underlines that when decisions are strategic, they normally involve the commitment of large‐scale resources, have long‐term implications and are often difficult to reverse once taken and further points to other reasons for the importance of strategic decision‐making processes. Looks at the...

Discusses General Electric (GE) and the way it has adapted and implemented strategy to changing market‐place conditions. Elaborates on GE's origination from the Edison Electric Light Company set up by Thomas Edison in 1878. Shows how entrepreneurial leadership has helped the company to...

Contends organizations need some possibilities to enable change to survive or exploit shifts and terms of their environments. Highlights, in a panel, the flexibility main points for organizations and uses a Table and Figures for extra explanatory information. States there are three basic...

Submits that many organizations adopt, unwittingly, the rationalist approach to strategy formulation. Reckons that scenarios provide business planners with means of bringing together apparently unconnected fragments of information into views of the future. Posits organizations that develop...

Points out that strategic managers already face enormous pressures to get everything right in terms of cost, quality, and customer satisfaction and supply chain issues. Suggests three steps for achieving a successful e‐business design: self‐diagnosis; reversing the value chain; and choosing...

This book provides a clear and concise explanation of withholding tax and how to leverage best practice to generate improved investment performance. It gives practical guidance to financial service firms and investors to help them understand the issues involved, trends and practicalities of...