Perspectives on Strategic Change

✍ Scribed by Luca Zan, Stefano Zambon (auth.), Luca Zan, Stefano Zambon, Andrew M. Pettigrew (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 349
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Luca Zan, Stefano Zambon, Andrew M. Pettigrew This book has developed from an international research workshop organ­ ized by the Dipartimento di Economia e Direzione Aziendale, University of Venice, and the Centre for Corporate Strategy and Change, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick. The purpose of the workshop was to foster the growth of a European network of scholars and to help create a "European perspective" in studying strategic change. The ten chapters in this book were first presented in Venice in May 1991 and have been substantially revised since then. The ten commentaries on the chapters are in most cases substantial developments of the oral responses made at the workshop, as indeed is the final review chapter by Andrew Van de Ven. The theme of this book, the study of strategic change processes, remains as theoretically alive and empirically real in the 1990s as it did in the 1980s. For many organizations in the European and North American context, the 1980s was an era of radical change. In this respect there is a wide array of examples. Structural changes in old industries such as coal, shipbuilding, steel, and heavy engineering led to a great employment loss and the impoverishment of certain regional economies that had remained dependent on those industries. But it was not just the old industries that X INTRODUCTION experienced major change during the 1980s.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Strategy, Change, and the Strategic Approach: Making Sense in Process....Pages 1-41
Management of Internationalization....Pages 43-78
Barriers to Internationalization....Pages 79-106
Networks and Internationalization: Managing Complexity Through Knowledge....Pages 107-148
Human Resource Management and Strategic Change: The Italian Case....Pages 149-180
Institutionalist Explanations: A Special Case of Strategic Fit?....Pages 181-204
Integrating Operational and Strategic Knowledge Bases for Competitive Performance....Pages 205-233
Introducing Market-Like Mechanisms in the Public Sector: The Case of the National Health Service....Pages 235-256
Assessing Recent Changes in the Role of Government in the Economy....Pages 257-276
Strategic Divestment in the Public Sector: Patterns from France and Great Britain....Pages 277-311
An Assessment of Perspectives on Strategic Change....Pages 313-323
Back Matter....Pages 325-339

✦ Subjects

Business/Management Science, general; Management