The Strategy Reader, 2nd Edition

Part 1 - What Is Strategy?.

1. Of strategies, deliberate and emergent: Henry Mintzberg & James Waters.

2. Strategy as stretch and leverage: Gary Hamel & C. K. Prahalad.

3. What is strategy? Michael Porter.

Part 2 - The Context of Strategy.

4. How much does industry matter? Richard Rumelt.

5. Strategic planning as if ethics mattered: Larue T. Hosmer.

6. Green and competitive: ending the stalemate: Michael Porter & Claas van der Linde.

7. On the limits of a firm-based theory to explain business networks: the Western bias of neo-classical economics: Nicole Woolsey Biggart & Gary Hamilton.

8. The art of standards wars: Carl Shapiro & Hal R. Varian.

Part 3 - The Resource-Based View of Strategy.

9. The core competence of the corporation: C. K. Prahalad & Gary Hamel.

10. The resource-based theory of competitive advantage: implications for strategy formulation: Robert Grant.

11. Strategic assets and organisational rent: Raphael Amit & Paul Schoemaker.

12. Dynamic capabilities & strategic management: David J. Teece, Gary Pisano & Amy Shuen.

Part 4 - Connections Between Strategy, Structure and Process.

13. The structuring of organisations: Henry Mintzberg.

14. Creating a sense of mission: Andrew Campbell & Sally Yeung.

15. Managing strategic change: Strategy, Culture & Action – Gerry Johnson.

16. Strategic product creation: managing new interactions of technology, markets & organisations: Ron Sanchez.

Part 5 - Issues in Corporate Strategy.

17. Corporate strategy & parenting theory: Michael Goold, Andrew Campbell & Marcus Alexander.

18. Related diversification, core competences & corporate performance: Constantinos C. Markides & Peter J. Williamson.

19. Developing & managing strategic alliances, building social capital and creating value: Michael A. Hitt, R. Duane Ireland & Michael D. Santoro.

Part 6 – Developing International Strategy.

20. Global strategy: an organising framework: Sumantra Ghoshal.

21. Preparing for the future: evolution of the transnational: Christopher Bartlett, Sumantra Ghoshal & Julian Birkinshaw.

22. The internationalisation of service firms: Susan Segal-Horn.

23. Entrepreneurship in multinational corporations: the characteristics of subsidiary initiatives: Julian M. Birkinshaw.

Part 7 – Postscript.

24. The Icarus paradox: Danny Miller.

25. Surfing the edge of chaos: Richard T. Pascale.

26. Perspectives on strategy: Geoff Jones.

Index