Policy Games For Strategic Management

This book explains why and how gaming-stimulation techniques have been used in Europe and the United States to improve decision quality on a special class of bewildering and threatening strategic problems that are described as strategic volcanoes or 'macr

This book on Strategic Management and Business Policy has been designed considering the problem of students in finding out an easily understandable book covering, by and large, all the relate topics. This book presents the fundamental concepts of Strategic Management with current examples and illustrations in simple, lucid and student friendly manner. The book, along with other topics, covers (a) Business Vision, Mission and Objectives (b) Environmental and Internal Analysis (c) Corporate, Business, Functional, Global and e-Business Strategies (d) Strategic Analysis and Choice (e) Strategic Implementation: Issues (f) Strategic Evaluation and Control (g) Case Study Methodology The main feature of this book is a comprehensive coverage of popular analytical frameworks, such as: (i) SWOT Analysis (ii) Porter's Five Forces Model (iii) Ansoff's Product/ Market Grid (iv) Value Chain Analysis (v) BCG Matrix In addition, concepts like core competence, competitive advantage, customer- driven strategy, etc., are elaborated extensively in the book. The book is very useful for the courses, such as MBA, PGDBA, BBA, BBM and other professional programmes at graduate and postgraduate level.

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This innovative introduction to business policy and strategic management, covering both the illustrative cases and conceptual foundation, offers authoritative approaches to strategic leadership in emerging markets. Among its many unique features, this comprehensively updated and revised second edition is structured to help students think strategically. The major organizational issues in strategy development are covered through an analytical study of: Nine different perspectives on organization to capture the rich history of the discipline and enlighten the nature of strategy. The concept of strategic intent to guide action. 9-M model to analyze strategies in functional areas of manpower, materials, methods, money, manufacturing, machine, marketing, motivating, and manipulating. Competitive gaming model to strategize different types of market structures. Internetworking model to develop high-performance Internet ventures. Strategic business model to unfold hidden value into new directions. Value model to explain strategic elements of innovation and technology management. Ethical and international issues in the context of corporate governance. Strategic leadership model relevant to the emerging market ground realities. Strategic control model (both balanced and extended scorecard) to explore the influence of environmental and cultural contexts on effective performance. The text is well supported by more than one thousand sources of international research, India-focused case studies and experiential assignments. This comprehensive text on theory and practice of strategic management is a must read for management students as well as business practitioners and consultants.

This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Water Governance, Stakeholder Engagement, and Sustainable Water Resources Management" that was published in Water

The knowledge of business policy and techniques of strategic management is the need of the hour to prospective business managers. The present competitive environment has brought several drastic changes in policy making and strategic management. Hence, there is necessity of theoretical understanding about the business policy as well as strategic management. Most of the organizations have started adopting strategic management system. This book focuses on conceptual approach to the subject as well as some select case studies, which make a foundation to the knowledge of strategic management.

The sustainable governance of water resources relies on processes of multi-stakeholder collaborations and interactions that facilitate knowledge co-creation and social learning. Governance systems are often fragmented, forming a barrier to adequately addressing the myriad of challenges affecting water resources, including climate change, increased urbanized populations, and pollution. Transitions towards sustainable water governance will likely require innovative learning partnerships between public, private, and civil society stakeholders. It is essential that such partnerships involve vertical and horizontal communication of ideas and knowledge, and an enabling and democratic environment characterized by informal and open discourse. There is increasing interest in learning-based transitions. Thus far, much scholarly thinking and, to a lesser degree, empirical research has gone into understanding the potential impact of social learning on multi-stakeholder settings. The question of whether such learning can be supported by forms of serious gaming has hardly been asked. This Special Issue critically explores the potential of serious games to support multi-stakeholder social learning and collaborations in the context of water governance. Serious games may involve simulations of real-world events and processes and are challenge players to solve contemporary societal problems; they, therefore, have a purpose beyond entertainment. They offer a largely untapped potential to support social learning and collaboration by facilitating access to and the exchange of knowledge and information, enhancing stakeholder interactions, empowering a wider audience to participate in decision making, and providing opportunities to test and analyze the outcomes of policies and management solutions. Little is known about how game-based approaches can be used in the context of collaborative water governance to maximize their potential for social learning. While several studies have reported examples of serious games, there is comparably less research about how to assess the impacts of serious games on social learning and transformative change.