Strategic alliances as well as networks among firms are big issues in current business practice. The economy is changing from indepedent firms to a network economy. Paul R. Kleindorfer, Yoram (Jerry) Wind and Robert E. Gunther have edited a new book ‘The Network Challenge: Strategy, Profit, and Risk in an Interlinked World’ dedicated to this [...]

In her new book “SuperCorp“, Harvard Business School professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter details how vanguard companies such as IBM, Cemex, and Omron are rewriting the nature of the business enterprise and how firms will gain sustainable prosperity in the 21st century.

The 29th ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE of the Strategic Management Society (Oct 11-14, 2009) will held in Washington DC and highlight the topic “Strategies in an Uncertain World”.The Conference aims to encourage discussions about research and strategies for addressing uncertainty and the opportunities created by changes in the world. Concepts of uncertainty have long been at [...]

Ilan Alon (Rollins College, USA), Julian Chang (Harvard University, USA), Marc Fetscherin (Rollins College, USA), Christoph Lattemann (University of Potsdam, Germany) and John R. McIntyre (Georgia Tech, USA) have published a new book focussing on globalization. The new book “China Rules: Globalization and Political Transformation” describes the development of Chinese MNC as a new feature [...]