Strategic Transformation Changing While Winning [Hardcover]

Very few companies are successful in undertaking strategic transformation while maintaining long term superior financial performance. This book, by leading strategy experts, draws upon extensive interviews with business leaders and insights from companies faced with this challenge.PART I The Challenge of Change The Background PART II The Three Successful Transformers: Beginnings The Three Successful Transformers: Developments The Three Successful Transformers: Breakthroughs The Three Comparators PART III Four Traditions of Transformation Playing the Long Game: Implications for ManagersMANUEL HENSMANS is Professor of Strategic Management at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, ULB, Belgium. He was previously a Research Fellow at the Advanced Institute of Management Research and a Marie Curie Fellow at Manchester School of Management. His research focuses on how firms can grow sustainably without experiencing major stakeholder crises and he has conducted projects at board of directors level with multiple organizations. His research has been published in international management journals such as LRP, Organization Studies, and MIT Sloan Management Review. He has acted as an executive lecturer at Rotterdam School of Management and an executive tutor at London Business School.

GERRY JOHNSON is Emeritus Professor of Strategic Management at Lancaster University School of Management, UK, and a Senior Fellow of the Advanced Institute of Management Research. He is the co-author of Europe's best-selling strategic management text, Exploring Strategy (Prentice Hall, 9th edition, 2011) and author and co-author of several other books. His research interests are in the area of strategic management practice, in particular with the processes of strategy development and change in organizations. He has published in leading journals including Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management Studies, Strategil³Z