UID:
edocfu_9959245756402883
Format:
1 online resource (xix, 520 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-107-22666-X
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1-139-41125-X
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1-280-68508-5
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9786613662026
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1-139-42261-8
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0-511-73656-8
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1-139-41959-5
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1-139-42164-6
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1-139-42368-1
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1-139-41754-1
Content:
Pragmatism is enjoying a renaissance in management studies and the social sciences. Once written off as amoral, relativist and opposed to the ideals of Truth, Reason and Progress, it is now regaining influence in public policy, international relations and business strategy. But what can pragmatism teach us about strategy? How can pragmatic strategies help businesses to succeed? This innovative book presents a pragmatic framework for shaping and solving strategic problems in a practical, creative, ethical and finely balanced manner. To achieve this, the authors draw from Confucian teaching, American pragmatism and Aristotelian practical wisdom, as well as business cases across industries and nations, particularly from emerging economies. With significant theoretical depth, direct practical implication and profound cultural sensitivity, the book is useful for executive managers, public administrators, strategy researchers and advanced students in the search for pragmatic strategies in an interconnected, fast-moving world.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Cover; Pragmatic Strategy; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Cited classics; Preface; PART I Why pragmatism, why now?; 1 Introduction; STRATEGY IN A CHANGING WORLD; Crisis of shareholder capitalism; Shift of economic power; Ambivalence towards globalisation; Concerns for the environment; A PRAGMATIC TURN; THE JOURNEY AHEAD; Strategy for a better world89; 2 Spirits of pragmatism; A PRACTICAL FACE; Muhammad Yunus: a scholar who changed the world37; A PROCESSUAL FACE; Toyota at its best: process integration61; A CREATIVE FACE; Others researched the market; Kawakami created one93
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A HOLISTIC FACEHarmonise Wal-Mart, Dell, McDonald's and win121; AN ETHICAL FACE; Situated ethics: the Mazda turnaround154; A COMMUNAL FACE; The Third Italy: 'collective entrepreneurs'185; SUMMARY; PART II What do pragmatic strategies look like?; 3 Strategies in a pragmatic world; BEYOND TALKING AND WALKING; Reform without a theory? The China experience17; WHAT IS STRATEGY FOR?; STRATEGY: A MULTI-FUNCTION TOOL; Cochlear implants: technology as political game70; THE 6CS OF STRATEGY; Contingent; Consequential; Continuous; Courageous; Collective; Co-creative
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Bricolage: a French spirit Confucius would have lovedDeng and Yunus: the bricolage masters; SUMMARY; 4 Strategy as purposeful emergence; MULTI-PATH EMERGENCE; The formation of the Toyota Production System; Who created the China miracle: Deng or the farmers?36; BE WISE, BE PRAGMATIC; Strategy without intent?; Learning from Heidegger; Was Laozi a passive non-doer?; Wall Street, Grameen Bank, Honda, Master Kong Noodles, Mao Zedong and T.E. Lawrence; SUMMARY; PART III What to do, how to do it?; 5 Dealing with wuli-shili-renli; VOICES FROM THE MESSY WORLD; WSR, A CONFUCIAN WORLDVIEW
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The Xerox Eureka project: a WSR viewGETTING FUNDAMENTALS RIGHT; Common-sense fundamentals: Northern Rock vs China Merchants Bank; ENVISIONING A VALUED FUTURE; Nintendo the game changer; REALISING COMMON GOODNESS; Lenovo: 'you must know who you are!'174; WSR: A WALKING-STICK; 6 Timely balanced way-making; JUST RIGHT, NOT GOLDEN MEAN; GE and Lego: getting it just right; PRAGMATISM-UPON-TIME; Lenovo: a global company returning to its roots; BALANCING CHANGE-CONTINUITY; Li & Fung: change with continuity; BALANCING EXPANSION-FOCUS; Alibaba and Intel: focused expansion
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Mayekawa: expanding ba with a sharp focusToyota recall: the cost of losing balance; 7 Orchestrating WSR, orchestrating the firm; SENSE IT, SEIZE IT, REALISE IT; Sense it; Seize it; Realise it; CONFIGURE FOR THE LONG TERM; The Tao of Alibaba; WSR AND THE FIRM; Edison, a WSR master72; The meaning of Honda; Part IV Think when we learn; 8 Questioning theconventional paradigm; CLOSING THE PRACTICE GAP; Science-based professionalism; Practice-absent recipes; Hollow strategies; The Big Brother racism row43; BRINGING ETHICS BACK; Strategy without a head on it; What is business for?
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Knowledge against ethics?
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-17314-0
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-107-00184-6
Language:
English
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