Managing Strategic Action

Organizational success demands a capacity for effective strategic action yet much of the strategy literature continues to emphasize formulation rather than implementation. In contrast, this major textbook looks at the processes of making strategy happen through the management of strategic action.

Cynthia Hardy outlines a framework for understanding strategic action while key readings and cases examine the issues involved in moving from strategic intent to realization, through organizational alignment and change.

Part One highlights key dimensions of enacting strategic change, for example: environmental analysis and the formation of strategic intent; the relations between s