Wiley Strategic Renaissance and Business Transformation: 2 (Strategic Management Series)

The Wiley Strategic Management Series aims to illustrate the best in global strategic management for academics, business practitioners and consultants. This book addresses some of the most significant issues currently facing business strategists, including restructuring and reorganization, global competition, strategic change, and organizational learning. These issues are, of course, currently relevant but as thoughts and approaches to management issues they are timeless in their nature and importance. Strategic Renaissance and Business Transformation addresses one of the Strategic Management Society s primary concerns building and maintaining bridges between management theory and business practice. From the Inside Flap Strategic Renaissance and Business Transformation Edited by Howard Thomas, Don O'Neal, and James Kelly The contributions in this volume provide an eclectic and therefore intriguing selection of ideas in Strategic Management. The integration of strategic perspectives exemplifies many of the most important issues facing strategic management today and in the immediate future.Restructuring and reorganizationGlobal competitionStrategic changeOrganizational learningPrivatization and national renaissanceComplexity and contextStrategic Renaissance and Business Transformation is concerned with building and maintaining bridges between theory and practice. On the research side it generates and tests theories related to business and management; and on the practitioner side it demonstrates how to learn, understand, and apply tested theories in practice. From the Back Cover The Wiley Strategic Management Series aims to illustrate the ‘best in global strategic management’ for academics, business practitioners and consultants. This book addresses some of the most significant issues currently facing business strategists, including restructuring and reorganization, global competition, strategic change, and organizational learning. These issues are, of course, currently relevant but as thoughts and approaches to management issues they are timeless in their nature and importance. Strategic Renaissance and Business Transformation addresses one of the Strategic Management Society’s primary concerns — building and maintaining bridges between management theory and business practice. About the Author Howard Thomas is Dean of the College of Commerce and Business Administration at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and James F. Towey Professor of Strategic Management at UIUC. He became Dean in May 1992, after serving as Interim Dean since August 1991. Prior to this he was Foundation Professor of Management at the Australian Graduate School of Management, AGSM, Australia's National Business School in Sydney, New South Wales, and Director of the Doctoral Program at London Business School, England. He is internationally recognized as one of the leading experts in the field of strategic management theory. He serves on the editorial boards of various management journals and is Vice President of Publications and President-Elect of the Strategic Management Society and has published widely in the areas of corporate and competitive strategy. He has an international reputation as a consultant in strategy and serves on a number of boards. Donald E. O'Neal, MBA and PhD (Business Administration) University of Illinois, is an Assistant Professor of Management at The University of Illinois at Springfield. After a successful business career, including management positions in engineering and sales and, latterly, as Vice President of Human Resources, he studied for a doctorate in strategic management at UIUC. His interests include research in corporate governance, and consulting in the areas of strategy and leadership.James N. Kelly is the joint Chairman of Gemini, and is the author of several articles on the strategic management of complex organizations, he has spoken at numerous interna