Managing Strategic Change or Spaces of Globalization

Managing Strategic Change: Technical, Political, and Cultural Dynamics

Author: Noel M Tichy

Shows how managers can use the conceptual framework of TPC theory (technical, political, and cultural dynamics) to cope with major strategic reorientation. Raises such fundamental questions about the nature of organizations. What business(es) should we be in? Who should reap what benefits from the organization? What are the values and norms of organizational members? Provides concepts and workable technologies for dealing with these questions and preparing for future change. Includes extensive examples.

Table of Contents:

Partial table of contents:
A FRAMEWORK FOR STRATEGIC CHANGE.
Strategic Change Management.
Organizational Models.
STRATEGIC ISSUES: DIAGNOSIS AND STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT.
Diagnosis for Change.
Application of Diagnostic Strategy.
Change Strategy.
Technical Change Strategies.
Political Change Strategies.
Cultural Change Strategies.
IMPLEMENTING STRATEGIC CHANGES.
Change Technologies.
Transition Management.
MONITORING CHANGE AND THE FUTURE OF STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT.
Monitoring and Evaluating Strategic Change.
Strategic Change in the Future.
References.
Author Index.
Subject Index.

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Spaces of Globalization

Author: Kevin R Cox

Arguments about the globalization of economic relations have become commonplace; part of the everyday diet of social science and public affairs alike. Citing the growth of multinational and transnational corporations, and the enhanced mobility of goods, services and money, proponents of the globalization hypothesis claim that capital now creates new forms of competition beyond the reach of state agencies and nationally organized forms of worker representation. Defined in this manner, globalization becomes a threat to the welfare state, to policies of full employment, and to national living standards. Taking a radically different tack, this timely and far-reaching volume reexamines the underlying assumptions of globalization arguments from a critical perspective. Alongside globalization, authors show, there persist tendencies towards the territorialization and re-territorialization of economic life, as well as the development of new organizing strategies by labor. Probing the complex relationship between the global and the local and investigating the changing dynamics of contemporary firms, labor, capital, and communities, the book also addresses the broader question of the difference that space makes in understanding society.