The essential guide to managing small business growth

A cliche it may be but we are living in ever more turbulent times. Business decision-making has become more challenging and unpredictable than ever: we see unforeseen and often cataclysmic changes in consumer demand, both at home and in export markets; customers continue to demand ...

Sobrevivir no es suficiente

la evolución de las especies aplicada al mundo de los negocios del siglo XXI

Cada generación es testigo de un cambio fundamental en la forma en que nos organizamos para trabajar. Desde el clásico management científico, de Frederick Taylor (1914) hasta la cadena de montaje de Henry Ford, desde The Organization Man (1956) a En busca de la excelencia ...

Innovation management

strategies, implementation and profits

This second edition of Innovation Management provides a systematic approch to the strategies and processes that underlay the financial results of innovation, using multi-functional research from economics, organizational theory, general management and marketing, and the strategy literature. Índice 1 Introduction and Overview I. FUNDAMENTALS 2 ...

Oxford Handbook of Strategy

.Vol. 1: Strategy overview and competitive strategy

1. D. O. Faulkner and A. Campbell: Introduction Part I: Approaches to Strategy 2. J. Kay, P. McKiernan, and D. O. Faulkner: The History of Strategy 3. M. Slater: The Boundary of the Firm 4. D. Barron: Evolutionary Theory 5. R. Loveridge: Institutional Theory 6 ...

Oxford Handbook of Strategy

.Vol. 2: Corporate strategy

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 ...

The economics of business strategy

This authoritative collection of the most important published articles on the economic basis of business strategy includes articles that illustrate the origins of familiar concepts in business strategy - the experience curve, the portfolio matrix, and the "five forces". It also presents the foundations of the ...

A general theory of entrepreneurship

the individual-opportunity nexus

In this volume, Scott Shane extends the analysis of entrepreneurship by offering an overarching conceptual framework that explains the different parts of the entrepreneurial process - the opportunities, the people who pursue them, the skills and strategies used to organize and exploit opportunities, and the environmental ...

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 ...