Innovation strategies and performance in small firms

Exploring the scope, breadth and depth of innovation in small firms, the authors of this book employ an array of survey data to analyze the operating characteristics of dynamic small-firm populations. They investigate the strategies and activities that small firms pursue at different stages in ...

Gurus on business strategy

A guide to the world's most important writers on business strategy. It summarizes all the key concepts and the contribution of each of the leading thinkers in the field, with pros and cons of each theory. It also provides a series of checklists to ...

The capable company

building the capabilities that make strategy work

Most companies don't flounder because of poor strategy. The culprit is poor execution of the game plan. If executives know this, why don't they do something about it? The problem is that strategic intent, written in the language of a few visionaries, gets ...

La innovación tecnológica en las organizaciones

El libro se divide en cuatro partes: 1º) Fundamentos de la innovación 2º) Estrategia e innovación Se analiza la innovación tecnológica en las pequeñas y medianas empresas y se presenta el concepto de alianza empresarial y su influencia en la estrategia de innovación de las ...

Teoría de la organización

un enfoque estratégico

Está dividido en cuatro partes diferenciadas: Introducción, El contexto de las organizaciones, Gestión del contexto organizativo, y Procesos organizativos. La quinta y última parte, esta dedicada a casos prácticos, que en esta edición están adaptados a las empresas españolas. INDICE PARTE I. INTRODUCCIÓN. Capítulo 1 ...

Creative business

achieving your goals through creative thinking and actions

While many people in business have strong analytic skills, creativity has been undervalued in many organisations. The authors draw attention to creative thinking and action and how this can be used to solve business problems and improve performance. They show how some companies have achieved ...

Dirección estratégica

No es fácil escribir un libro que cubra simultáneamente las necesidades de profesores y alumnos, pero estos autores lo han conseguido con esta obra, aportando justamente lo necesario para un curso semestral. · Poder preparar a los próximos directores de la Nueva Economía, significa aportar las ...

Enterprise programme management

delivering value

Many large scale projects are delivered over schedule and over budget. Programme management is a new approach to maximize the likelihood of successful change management. While being based around a set of techniques this book describes an approach to programme management that outlines the skills ...

Strategy and organization

realizing strategic management

Examining some of the new and emerging issues in strategic management, Loizos Heracleous offers a fresh approach to the established ideas of strategy. Beginning with the historical development of the strategy field, including the influence of industrial organisation and the resource-based view, he develops a ...

The value profit chain

treat employees like customers and customers like employees

With the support of case studies and examples of companies who have adopted Value Profit Chain principles, the authors demonstrate how satisfied, loyal and productive employees produce satisfied, loyal and trusting customers who are the primary drivers of growth and profitability

The SMS blackwell handbook of organizational capabilities

emergence, developement, and change

How do the resources and capabilities of organizations emerge and develop over time? This handbook brings together scholars of strategic management, economics, history, organizational theory, international business, and technology management in order to address this question. Many of the contributions present new theoretical or empirical ...

Inventing the organizations of the 21st century

Technological changes have displaced the hierarchical corporation as the model for business organization; the large corporations of the new century are decentralizing and externalizing, creating networks of "industry ecosystems" that will replace the top-down organizations of the last century. Inventing the Organizations of the 21st ...

Software ecosystem

understanding an indispensable technology and industry

Software has gone from obscurity to indispensability in less than fifty years. Although other industries have followed a similar trajectory, software and its supporting industry are different. In this book the authors explain, from a variety of perspectives, how software and the software industry are ...

Standars and audits for ethics management systems

the European perspective

Today?s management is faced with the new task of implementing and dealing with standardised ethics management systems and values programs. It is a widely accepted fact that these have to be designed individually and firm specific, if they are to be a success. On ...

La estrategia en el posavasos

o cómo convertir una buena idea en un gran negocio

En este libro los autores relatan con pasión su experiencia, valiosa enseñanza para crear una empresa, o convertir la ya existente en un juego en el que la victoria es el final

Business strategy

a guide to effective decision-making

Powerful new forces are reshaping the business world. Traditional boundaries between industries, disciplines and countries are blurring, and the role of the manager in making effective strategic decisions and building competitive advantage is increasingly complex and demanding. This book shows the busy manager how to ...

Value leadership

the 7 principles that drive corporate value in any economy

Management expert Peter Cohan provides a new and powerful concept of sustainable corporate value. This book provides executives with seven management principles that have been tested in periods of economic expansion and contraction. These principles are: value human relationships; foster teamwork; experiment frugally; fulfill your ...

El universo del lujo

una visión global y estratégica para profesionales y amantes del lujo

Este libro nos ayudará a entender el lujo desde un punto de vista social, psicológico e histórico, proponiendo un "retrato-robot" actual de un sector que se encuentra sometido a una serie de fuerzas que le están llevando a una verdadera reestructuración.

Inteligencia competitiva

en los negocios y en las organizaciones

Entre los nuevos protagonistas de la visión estratégica, la Inteligencia Competitiva ha asumido en un tiempo muy breve, un papel preponderante. ¿Qué es la Inteligencia Competitiva en un último análisis y como puede utilizarse con éxito en las empresas? Los autores contestan a estos interrogantes ...

Conceptos de administración estratégica

Esta nueva edición ofrece una cobertura actualizada y de vanguardia de los conceptos y técnicas en administración estratégica para lograr una ventaja competitiva.