Retail strategy

a view from the bridge

INDICE Part one: Introduction to retail strategy; Part two: Strategic issues in retailing - Retail marketing and the changing consumer; Retail supply chain collaboration; Planning for retail and the assessment of public policies towards retailing; Internationalisation; Retail financial perspectives; Human resource; Prospects for electronic commerce; Analysis ...

Dividend policy

theory and practice

Presenting different ways to think about one of the most intriguing subjects in financial economics, this title explores the puzzle presented by dividends. Irrational and subject to fashion, yet popular and desirable, they remain a priority amongst managers, even while perceived as largely symbolic. After ...

The ultimate strategy library

the 50 most influential strategic ideas of all time

* A genuine time and money-saver-no need to invest in big textbooks * The Ultimateformula is highly successful * The author is regarded as a visionary business thinker-he's the founder of the Bristol Management Research Centre and editor of Future Filter,a business digest for the new ...

La gestión del cambio

En esta obra, un selecto grupo de expertos españoles analizan con visión amplia y rigor esta importantísima cuestión. El desarrollo y crecimiento de las organizaciones dependen de la eficacia con la que se afrontan los procesos de cambio. Conocer las claves de la gestión del ...

Images of strategy

"Images of Strategy" develops an innovative and multi-faceted approach to strategic management which should enable students to use and develop interesting and wide-ranging applications alongside contemporary ideas and analysis. It does so by asking if we really are looking in at the same static object ...

The seven myths of customer management

how to be customer-driven without being customer-led

The Seven Myths of Customer Management is required reading for everyone who's job interacts with or impacts customers. Written in a lively, readable and anecdotal style, this book challenges much conventional wisdom and provides a powerful antidote to many potentially dangerous and expensive misconceptions ...

Trust and mistrust

radical risk strategies in business relationships

If we trust someone we put ourselves at risk, but we do so voluntarily. In business there may be no way of clinching that deal without engaging in that personal risk, but to deny or externalise that risk is to enter the world of blame ...

Competing in a service economy

how to create a competitive advantage through service development and innovation

DESCRIPCION Competing in a Service Economy is a hands-on guide to creating services, with illustrative examples from service-oriented companies including Disney, Ericsson, IKEA, National Association of Convenience Stores, Ritz Carlton, Scandinavian Airline Systems, Sterling Pulp Chemicals, and Telia Mobile. This practical resource for executives, general ...

Diccionario enciclopédico de estrategia empresarial

Este Diccionario en el fondo, pretende ser una guía práctica, una herramienta de referencia, que ayude a la comprensión adecuada de la cultura existen, al día de hoy, de la estrategia empresarial. Está formado por más de 400 entradas que representan los términos y expresiones ...

Strategic management for public and nonprofit organizations

The One Page Business Plan

start with a vision, build a company!

It's simple, it´s easy, it works!. Prepare a complete business plan for startups, small to mid-size companies, corporate divisions, subsidiaries, departments or nonprofits. Present your ideas concisely to employees, managemnt, partners, bankers, or a board of directors.

El Pez que no quiso evolucionar

Relatos de la empresa y la vida

El pez que no quiso evolucionar es un libro de lectura fácil y amena donde el autor conocedor del mundo empresarial y habiendo compartido las experiencias de miles de directivos, nos da las claves de los comportamientos que funcionan para alcanzar una vida profesional responsable ...

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 ...