Required Text Barney, J.B. and Hesterly, W.S., (2012). Strategic Management and Competitive Advantage. 4th edition. Pearson Education Inc. ISBN-978-81 -203-4607-9
Recommended Text Andersen, T.J., (2013). Short Introduction to Strategic Management, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK. ISBN 978-1-107-03136-4
Week 1: Introduction to Strategic Management: Terms and Concepts PPT 1 Read ……………….. text Chapter 1 Venkatraman, N. and Camillus, J.C. (1984). Exploring the Concept of “Fit” in Strategic Management. Academy of Management Review, 9:3, pp. 513–525.
Week 2: Evaluating a Firm's External EnvironmentPPT 2
Read ………………….. text Chapter 9 Wickström G. and Bendix, T., (2000). The "Hawthorne effect" - What Did the Original Hawthorne Studies Actually Show? Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environ and Health, 26(4), pp. 363-367. Driskell, J. E. and Salas, E., (1991). Group Decision Making Under Stress. Journal of Applied Psychology, 76 (3), pp. 473-478.
Read ………………….. text Chapter 10 Bennett, R. J. and Robinson, S. L., (2000). Development of a Measure of Workplace Deviance. Journal of Applied Psychology, 85 (3), pp. 349-360. Goodman, P. S., Ravlin, E. C., & Schminke, M. (1987). Understanding groups in organizations. Carnegie Mellon University Research Showcase
Week 12: International Strategies
Read …………….. text Chapter 12 Jones, E., Watson, B., Gardner, J. and Gallois, C., (2004). Organizational communication: Challenges for the new century. Journal of Communication, 54, 722–750.
Week 13: To Leverage Current Core Competencies in New Ways
Read …………….. text Chapters 13-14 Lammers, J. C. and Barbour, J. B., (2006). An Institutional Theory of Organizational Communication. Communication Theory, 16, 356–377. Yates, J. and Orlikowski,W. J., (1992). Genres of Organizational Communication: A Structurational Approach to Studying Communication and Media. Academy of Management Review, 17(2), pp. 299–326.
Week 14: Term Project (TBA
Read ………………. text Chapter 15
Brass, D. and Krackhardt, D. M. Power, Politics, and Social Networks in Organizations, in David M. Ferris, G. R., Russ, G.S. and Fandt, P. M., (1989).
Krackhardt, D. 1990. Assessing the political landscape: Structure, cognition, and power in organizations. Administrative Science Quarterly, 35, pp. 342-369.
Coopey, J. (1995). The learning organization, power, politics and ideology introduction. Management Learning, 26(2), 193-213.