Transformative Strategies: Strategic Thinking in the Age of Globalization, Disruption, Collaboration and Responsibility

✍ Scribed by Brian Tjemkes and Oli Mihalache

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 239
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
CONTENTS
List of figures
List of tables
List of boxes
List of contributors
Preface
1. Strategizing the unknown and transformative strategizing
Strategizing the unknown
Transformative strategizing
Studying transformative strategizing
Structure of the book
References
PART 1: Globalization and disruption
2. Competing globally
Summary
Learning objectives
Introduction to global competition
Tension: local responsiveness versus global integration
Strategies for competing on the global arena
Reflection
Learning and discussion questions
Exercise: the international expansion of Tony’s Chocolonely
References
3. Transformative entrepreneurship
Summary
Learning objectives
Introduction to transformative entrepreneurship
Tension: stability versus change
Understanding the firm’s life cycle
Reflection
Learning and discussion questions
Exercise: firm growth and changing roles of the entrepreneur
References
PART 2: Disruption and collaboration
4. Business model innovation
Summary
Learning objectives
Introduction to business models
Tension: innovation–adoption–adaptation
Dynamic capabilities and stakeholder theory
Reflection
Learning and discussion questions
Exercise: business model innovation at ING Bank
References
5. Leading digital strategy
Summary
Learning objectives
Introduction to corporate strategy in a digital era
Tensions of organizing for digital transformation
Strategizing digital platforms
Reflection
Learning and discussion questions
Exercise: Signify and Li-Fi technology
References
PART 3: Collaboration and responsibility
6. Collaborative transformation
Summary
Learning objectives
Introduction to collaborative arrangements
Tension: cooperation versus competition
Collaborative arrangements and transformation logics
Reflection
Learning and discussion questions
Exercise: The Walt Disney Company
References
7. Strategizing corporate social responsibility
Summary
Learning objectives
Introduction to corporate social responsibility
Tensions in strategic CSR: balancing compliance and differentiation
Understanding the motives for CSR
Reflection
Learning and discussion questions
Exercise: working with global sustainability standards
References
PART 4: Responsibility and globalization
8. Navigating leadership teams
Summary
Learning objectives
Introduction to leadership teams
Tension: the double-edged sword of diversity
Tackling the challenges of diversity in leadership teams
Reflection
Learning and discussion questions
Exercise: ING management banking board
References
9. A trans-cultural leadership paradigm
Summary
Learning objectives
Introduction to leadership theories
Tensions: trans-cultural leadership dilemmas
Leading with a trans-cultural competency
Reflection
Learning and discussion questions
Exercise: stimulating change in a South Korean subsidiary
References
10. Working with transformative strategies
Transformative strategies in practice
In pursuit of transformative strategizing
Concluding remark
References
11. Appendix: strategic management theories
Co-evolutionary perspective
Dynamic capability view
Game theory
Industrial organization
Institutional theory
Organizational change and learning
Resource-based view
Resource dependence perspective
Strategic agility and renewal
Transaction cost economics
Index