Competitive Strategy Dynamics or Managing Diversity in the Global Organization

Competitive Strategy Dynamics

Author: Kim Warren

This book offers a practical, fact-based approach to explain how enterprises deliver performance over time. Rigorous methods explain how to quantify the growth, decline and interdependence within the organisation's resources and capabilities as well as the continuous interactions with competitors and other external factors. These methods create clear and practical pictures of the strategic architecture driving earnings and other performance outcomes, not just for commercial firms, but for non-profit cases too. Management is then well-equipped to answer three crucial questions in their strategy development : why has the business performed as it has to date? where is performance headed in the future if we carry on as now? and how can we alter this future for the better? The book provides the basis for an entire course on the time-based perspective on competitive strategy, connecting strongly to established static frameworks. Alternatively it offers a vital missing component for existing courses in strategy and general management, as well as a key reference text for professionals in corporate development, consulting and business analysis.

Interesting textbook: Thurgood Marshall or The New Asian Hemisphere

Managing Diversity in the Global Organization: Creating New Business Values

Author: Celia de Anca

Global diversity is a key issue facing all companies and organisations. This book embraces diversity and shows how this is a strength that can provide the tools needed to attain the values and characteristics increasing demanded by business corporations and environments. Diversity has enormous benefits and opportunities, but these need to be carefully understood and developed. This book provides a practical framework and approach

Table of Contents:

PART I: UNDERSTANDING DIVERSITY
Dominant and Emerging Values
A Comparative Analysis of the Parameters of a Traditional Firm and a Modern Firm
Women in Management
Cross-Cultural Management
Personality in Diversity Management
PART II: MANAGING DIVERSITY
Diversity Management in Today's Firm
Practical Case Studies
Epilogue: 10 Questions for a Global Age