Strategy Implementation ^{2nd Ed.}

The West Series in Strategic Management.

This book deals with issues of organization design directed toward strategy implementation. It is intended as a text for advanced undergraduate and MBA policy courses, but clearly has relevance for the practicing organizational designer as well.

1. Introduction
   • Definitions
   • Concepts, Issues, Hypotheses, and Theories
   • Summary and Managerial Implications
2. Conceptual and Empirical Foundations of Strategy and Structure
   • Chandler's Thesis: Strategy and Structure
   • Markets and Hierarchies: An Economic Perspective
   • Empirical Research
   • Summary and Managerial Implications
3. Strategy, Structure, and Performance
   • Contingency Theory and Performance
   • Strategy, Structure, and Performance
   • Diversity, Decentralization, and Performance
   • The M-Form Structure and Performance: Extensions of Williamson
   • Market Structure and Performance
   • Summary and Managerial Implications
4. Implementing Diversification Strategies: An Alternate Framework
   • Strategy and Diversification
   • Assessing Relatedness
   • An Alternative Framework for Conceptualizing Strategic Diversity
   • Strategic Changes
   • Strategy and Structure
   • Summary and Managerial Implications
5. Processes and Systems for Managing Diversity
   • Integrating Processes
   • Resource Allocation Processes
   • Information Systems
   • Summary and Managerial Implications
6. Strategy, People, and Rewards
   • Reward Systems
   • Rewards and Diversification
   • People and Careers
   • Management Development
   • People and Center of Gravity
   • Summary and Managerial Implications
7. Integration of Dimensions for Strategy Implementation
   • The Concept Fit
   • An Example: Dow-Corning
   • Summary and Managerial Implications
8. Strategic Adaption Models
   • The Population Ecology View
   • Models of Strategic Adaption
   • Growth and Development Models
   • Summary and Managerial Implications
9. Strategy and Organization: State of the Art
   • Managing Diversity
   • Managing to the Global Challenge
   • Managing for Innovation and Corporate Entrepreneurship
   • Summary and Managerial Implications

A classical text that never gets old. Recommended reading.