Handbook of Strategic Management, Second Edition,Jack Rabin, Gerald J. Miller Revised and updated for the second edition, the Handbook of Strategic Management provides a set of broad-based bibliographic essays on strategic management. It covers synoptic approaches, complexity theory, organizational capacity, financing strategy, networks, and chaos theory and offers an in-depth look the use of strategic management in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors. The National Institute of Personnel Management called this book "...the most comprehensive single-source treatment of strategic management." New topics discuss the role of strategic management in political decision making, uncertainty, the absence of strategy, productivity, teamwork, leadership, and change. |
Contents
Context and Major Theories | 1 |
Applications and Limitations of Complexity Theory in Organization | 67 |
Major Concepts and Ideas | 89 |
Managing the Strategic Change Portfolio | 123 |
Organizational Capacity in Strategic Management | 141 |
A Contingency Perspective | 181 |
Uncertainty and Strategic Management | 203 |
The Philosophy of Science and the Problem of Unobservables | 227 |
Chaos Theory and Strategic Management | 475 |
Use of Strategic Management in the Three Sectors | 493 |
Enhancing Worldwide Strategic Planning | 515 |
B Public Sector | 545 |
Necessary | 561 |
Strategic Planning in the Office of Child Support Enforcement | 595 |
The Strategic Management Process at the IRS | 611 |
Strategic Management in State Government | 657 |
Financing Strategy | 249 |
Strategy Absence | 273 |
The Organization and Strategy | 289 |
Strategy Structure and Performance | 327 |
Strategic Management for Productivity or Is It the Other | 343 |
Collaborative Strategies | 371 |
External Orientations and Strategic Planning | 387 |
CriticalIncident Analysis of the Individual and Organizational | 431 |
Strategic Management and Economic Development | 461 |
Achieving Governmental Missions with Innovative Practices | 675 |
Strategic Management in City Government | 691 |
The Case | 709 |
Negotiating the Path to a Strategic | 739 |
Thinking Strategically in the Changing Health Care Environment | 763 |
The Environment of Strategic Management in Health Care | 777 |
A Theory and Case Study in Academic | 797 |
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