The Strategy Pathfinder Core Concepts and Micro–Cases

The Strategy Pathfinder provides today s hard–pressed business students with a new, effective way to learn about business strategy. Built around micro–cases of real–life problems faced by companies and executives, this 'strategy i–pod' helps business students to engage with the kinds of situation they will encounter in their working lives while provoking discussions about key theoretical themes. These cases are drawn from the Americas, Asia, Europe, Africa and Oceania.

The Strategy Pathfinder is also supported by online lecturer supplements, available at www.blackwellpublishing.com/angwin.

The Strategy Pathfinder User s Guide.

Strategic Pathsways.

The Strategy Paths Combined.

1. Macro–Shocks.

2. Movers & Shakers.

3. Industry Terrain.

4. The Big Picture.

5. Perfect Positioning.

6. Living Strategy.

7. Corporate Character.

8. Crossing Borders.

9. Guiding Change.

10. Sustain Ability.

11. Maverick Strategies.

Notes.

References.

Primary Chapter and Case Authors.

Acknowledgements.

Index.

Duncan Angwin is associate professor in strategic management at Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, where he has won several awards for teaching excellence and research publications. He is also associate fellow at Sa d Business School, Oxford, visiting professor at ENPC, Paris, and lectures for Georgetown University, USA. He is Associate Chair for Strategy and Practice at the Strategic Management Society and maintains close links with industry.

Stephen Cummings is Professor of Strategic Management at Victoria Management School, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand and regularly lectures at other universities in Asia, Africa and Europe. He is the author of Recreating Strategy and the co–editor (with David Wilson) of Images of Strategy.

Chris Smith is senior lecturer in strategy and Director of the Singapore MBA program for the Adelaide Graduate School of Business, University of Adelaide (South Australia).