A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book About Studying Strategy

Chris Carter author Stewart R Clegg author Martin Kornberger author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:SAGE Publications Inc

Published:17th Sep '08

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′If strategy is the queen of business, then this book offers us the perfect introduction to her court! It is accessible, lively, and informative. The book repays the reader with wonderful account of how strategy works. It also lets the reader in on some of the darker secrets of strategy′ -  André Spicer, Associate Professor of Organisation Studies, Warwick Business School

Studying Strategy is a welcoming, lively and thought provoking account that helps students get to grips with strategy′s key issues and broad debates and introduce them to the latest ideas.

Conceived by Chris Grey as an antidote to conventional textbooks, each book in the ‘Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap’ series takes a core area of the curriculum and turns it on its head by providing a critical and sophisticated overview of the key issues and debates in an informal, conversational and often humorous way.


Suitable for students of strategy at Undergraduate, Masters and MBA level, professionals involved in strategic decision making and anyone interested in how strategy works. 


′I love this book...it is novel, punchy and extremely well written. It takes the pomposity out of strategic management, showing that strategy is everywhere and can really help with the complicated jargon. A great read, buy it!′ -
Cary L. Cooper, Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health
Lancaster University Management School

′If strategy is the queen of business, then this book offers us the perfect introduction to her court! It is accessable, lively, and informative. The book repays the reader with wonderful account of how strategy works. It also lets the reader in on some of the darker secrets of strategy′ -
André Spicer, Associate Professor of Organisation Studies
Warwick Business School


A very good book which provides a brief account of the main schools in strategic management and its historic development. -- Dr Boris Blumberg * drupal *
A very nice book that offers a brief overview of the main schools of thought in strategic management and its historical development. -- Dr Boris Blumberg * drupal *
brilliant summary of the the topic -- Dr Daniel Valentine * drupal *
good for incorporating different studying strategies when planning for teching a course but not a book for the students in this area. -- Dr Jenny Backstrand * drupal *
Although an introduction, useful as students at degree level have an opportunity to start with this, and build up to applied case studies. -- Linda Lilley * drupal *
As the title sugust a short book which is simply a condensed on strategy managment. It does little to inform about any practical approaches to applying strategy. The book will be of use to college students looking for a concise overview of theory. at the end I would like conclud to that it′s a nice book . It covers most of the points of Strategic management.
However, the language is bit hard to read by a non English-speaker.
-- Mr Ayaz Mehmood * drupal *

ISBN: 9781412947879

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 180g

176 pages