Sotirios Paroutis is Professor of Strategic Management and Head of the Strategy and International Business Group at the Warwick Business School. His research interests lie at the intersections of strategy practices and processes in complex organizational settings in the UK and globally. He uses qualitative and quantitative methods to examine the discursive, cognitive and visual activities organizational actors employ when dealing with strategic tensions.
1. Practicing Strategy: Foundations and Importance
SECTION A; PRACTITIONERS
2. Chief Executive Officers
3. Chief Strategy Officers (CSOs)
4. Strategy Teams
5. Middle managers
6. Strategy Consultants
SECTION B: PRACTICES
7. Strategy Tools
8. Influencing Strategy through Discourse
SECTION C: PRAXIS
9. Strategic Alignment: The ESCO Model
10. Practicing Strategy across Firms: Insights from M&As
11. Strategic Ambidexterity: Dealing with Tensions
SECTION D: CASE STUDIES
12. Teaching Strategy using the Strategy-as-Practice approach
13. Strategic Leadership and innovation at Apple Inc.
14. Centrica - Strategizing in Multi-Utility
15. Narayana Health: Bringing Quality Healthcare to the Masses
16. A "Reliable" Recovery?
17. Marconi - When Strategists Hit the Perfect Storm
18. Lafarge v. Blue Circle - Practices in a Hostile Takeover
19. Room for Improvement? Relocating a Business School
20. Strategy-making 2.0 - Strategy Development Process at the Wikimedia Foundation
Shortlisted for the 2013 Chartered Management Institute textbook award
Practicing Strategy broke new ground when it first published by focusing on the strategy-as-practice approach, which considers strategy not only as something an organisation has but something which its members do.
The new edition deals with a selection of topics that have been central in recent academic debates in the strategy-as-practice area and includes