Strategic Management In Action

Strategic Management in Action, 3rd Edition is clearly differentiated from other volumes by its conversational writing style, increased use of pedagogy, and emphasis on readers doing strategy. The volume effectively integrates strategy theory and strategy action in an exciting and engaging way. The author examines the foundations of auditing, as well as standards, materiality and risk, management assertions and evidence, client acceptance and audit planning, internal control, revenue and cash receipts transactions, expenditure and cash disbursements transactions, other accounts and transactions, sampling, completing the audit and reporting, ethics and legal liability and assurance and other services. For business professionals involved in strategic planning.

This integrates the most current strategic management theories and practices in an engaging and exciting format. Features include : comprehensive cases at the end of the text including companies such as Amazon.com, Levi-Strauss and Starbucks ; and a companion web site (www.prenhall.com/coulter) which gives students access to online study guides, Internet resources and related exercises.

For undergraduate and graduate courses in Strategic Management. Current theories and practice in an interesting, engaging, and easy-to-read format. Strategic Management in Action presents current strategic management theories and practice in an engaging and easy-to-read format. Coulter effectively blends theory with plenty of opportunity to practice throughout the text, providing students with the ideologies, ethical dilemmas, and unique strategies of today's real managers and organizations in action. The sixth edition continues to present current strategic management theories and practices in an interesting, engaging, and easy-to-read format. There is also a new emphasis on color and photos, making this edition a more visually engaging text for students.

The innovative and unique feature of this book is that it does not contain theoretical concept that cannot be translated into practice. The model which introduces this volume sets the stage for addressing the major phases of the strategic management process: environmental analysis, strategy formulation and development, strategy evaluation and control. Its conceptual and operational structure is described in the first part, together with a practically oriented definition of strategy, and a brief discussion of the logic and benefits of the judgmental modeling approach to decision making. The second part critically addresses the classical approaches to the analysis of the external and internal environmental factors, which have an impact on the “functioning” of the basic model, i.e. the structural characteristics of the industry context, and the companies’ technical, organizational, financial, and human resources, including the translation into operational models of otherwise rather theoretical concepts.

Strategic planning methodology is the application of strategic management theory to practice. This book is about the process of strategic management in action, and is firmly grounded, unlike many works on the subject, in both strategic management theory and empirical research. This is what planning professionals and strategic management scholars have long sought—a firm methodological connection between strategic management theory and its daily practice in management. This comprehensive reference handbook covers such critical issues as the application of information technology to planning; the roles and responsibilities of various parties, including the board of directors, CEO, COO, line managers, and planning managers; administrative management of the planning process; integration of near and long-term planning; assessment of the firm's external environment; and the planning manager's role in corporate restructuring, including acquisitions, divestments, mergers, alliances, and joint ventures.

This is a study of the analytic tools and processes involved in the formulation and implementation of strategic choices in realistic organizational settings.

This title, originally published in 1984, is based on a study of the work of general and production managers in companies in Britain and Germany, and gives a life-like account of the realities of management, including the problems, crises and unresolved tensions. Throughout the book the author draws comparisons between management style and performance in Britain and Germany. Designed primarily for management and business studies undergraduates, the book gives an excellent idea of what industry is really like. For students who are committed to a career in management but who lack experience of industry, this realistic and down-to-earth account will be invaluable.