The Strategy Process: Concepts, Contexts, Cases : Global (Paperback)

~ (Author), Joseph Lampel (Author), (Author), Sumantra Ghoshal (Author)

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Strategic Management at all levels. Also courses in strategic marketing, organization theory, decision theory, public administration, and political science departments. Breaking away from the traditional formulation, - implementation approach that dominates strategy textbooks, this text sees strategy analysis as taking place in a wider organizational and managerial context. This Global edition retains the basic readings and cases approach of the US and European editions and now introduces a truly international perspective to present an up-to-date look at how actual companies act strategically and the research driving them.

Product Details

• Paperback: 1040 pages
• Publisher: Financal Times Management; 4 edition (September 10, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 027365120X
• ISBN-13: 978-0273651208
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 8 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #494,585 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Vast knowledge in very digestable form, August 16, 2000

By	Alain Lipus (Ravne na Koroskem, Slovenia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Strategy Process, The - European Edition (Revised) (Paperback)

As frightening as the volume of the book might see, it is written very well and it is very contemporary with the topics discussed in.
The book is divided in several sections with general theory and implications disussed first and with some real cases presented afterwards. Each case is usually backed with some questions to think about and to extract the essence of it. The complete book feels like being a student in the class with authors performing as teachers (as they also do sometimes).
Concepts of strategy are extremely tricky. It can hardly been negotiated if there is a strategy or if you just got to have the feeling or if there simply are people who earn 1 million US$+ a year that turn into gold everything they touch and you can't run a serious business without them. This book will help you understand that strategy exists, will teach you how to define it and set it through and how to predict the future and react on it. But as real life is, many things can happen. You get the driver's licence after you learn the basics of driving. But no one can tell after you get the licence if you will get involved into the crash and when.
Many people expect from such books that they will get a broad pavement covered with roses to walk through their careers on simply by paying some 70 US$. How naive they sound sometimes. The pen alone doesn't write a book, it is just an instrument to success, behind which stands an enormous human effort. This wonderful book is only an instrument to avoid some crashes of company in your career. If it can therefore win you a job or a mere 100 US$ raise, it has paid back heavily, don't you think?

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A good book, March 30, 2000

By	EL KORTBI MOHAMED (Casablanca, Morocco) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Strategy Process, The - European Edition (Revised) (Paperback)

This is an important and recent strategy book. I recommend it for MBA students and managers.