Routledge Research in Strategic Management
About the Book Series
Concerned primarily with responses to external issues such as in understanding customers' needs and responding to competitive forces, strategic management is dynamic, defining the decisions that provide overall direction and objectives to an organization. This series explores, develops and critiques the numerous models and frameworks designed to assist in strategic decision making in internal and external environments. It publishes scholarly research in all methodologies and perspectives that comprise the discipline, and welcomes diverse multi-disciplinary research methods, including qualitative and quantitative studies, conceptual and computational models.
Organizational Resilience and Uncertainty: Strategies for Adapting, Innovating, and Thriving
1st Edition
Edited
By Samson O. Oladejo, David A. Boye, Jayakumar Chinnasamy, Oluwabunmi O. Adejumo
September 16, 2026
This book advances a unifying argument that resilience is not a fixed trait, sector-specific response, or technical solution, but a dynamic, context-sensitive capability that emerges through strategy, learning, institutions, and social relations. Across its fourteen chapters, the book brings ...
Strategic Management and Business Modeling: Creative Industry Business Models in Theory and Practice
1st Edition
By Giacomo Rosini
August 26, 2026
This book provides a fresh perspective on business strategy and business modeling, tailored to the dynamic creative and cultural industries. It bridges classical strategic thinking with contemporary dynamic approaches, introducing an innovative integrated framework that connects business strategy ...
Reimagining Strategic Management: An Innovative and Sustainable Approach
1st Edition
By Teena Mishra
July 13, 2026
As businesses navigate an era of rapid technological advancements, global competition, and evolving market dynamics, the field of strategic management must adapt to meet new challenges. This book presents fresh perspectives, models, and frameworks that redefine how organizations formulate and ...
Shareholders, Strategy and Value Creation: The Case of the IT Sector
1st Edition
By Wojciech Muras, Katarzyna Szczepańska-Woszczyna
June 26, 2025
The central task of contemporary strategic management is to look for sources of value and to achieve above- average firm performance. The effective implementation of a value creation strategy requires a comprehensive approach, including the creation of a systemic management structure aimed at ...
Strategic Management and Sustainability Transitions: Theory and Practice
1st Edition
By Michael Zhang
May 05, 2025
The subject of sustainability transitions has, in the past decade or so, become an established research field for academics, policy makers and practitioners alike. Conceptual and theoretical developments in the filed have gradually advanced from the perspectives of socio-technical systems and ...
Competitive Advantage, Strategy and Innovation in Africa: Issues and Applications
1st Edition
Edited
By Mohammed El Amine Abdelli, Nawal Chemma, Soudani Ahlem, Samir B. Maliki, Gurmeet Singh
December 18, 2024
The competitiveness of companies plays an important role in developing their effectiveness. But technology provides a strong competitive advantage to the companies and helps in achieving the sustainable development. This edited collection discusses various methods by which a firm can create a ...
Business Strategy and Competitive Advantage: A Reinterpretation of Michael Porter’s Work
1st Edition
By Jovo Ateljević, Dženan Kulović, Filip Đoković, Mirza Bavčić
October 07, 2024
Michael Porter is recognized as one of the top authorities on corporate strategy and business competition. The historical review of strategic management clearly shows that Porter’s research has bridged up two general paradigms (before and after the 1980s) thus helping both researchers and ...
Acquisitions and Corporate Strategy: Alliances, Performance, and Divestment
1st Edition
Edited
By David R. King
January 29, 2024
Corporate restructuring (acquisitions, alliances and divestment) is a visible form of corporate strategy. For example, firm investments in buying and selling assets exceed the gross domestic product of the majority of nations. Most research in this area examines acquisitions, but informing practice...
Strategic Management and Myopia: Challenges and Implications
1st Edition
By Wojciech Czakon
January 29, 2024
This book investigates the phenomenon of strategic myopia, which refers to important cognitive distortions that managers systematically display. It captures narrow views and preferences, which are likely to hurt firms’ long-term prospects. Instead of accusing managers of imperfections, opportunism,...
Strategic Management During a Pandemic
1st Edition
Edited
By Vikas Kumar, Gaurav Gupta
May 31, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic changed world dynamics, working scenarios, as well as professional and emotional dimensions. The virus has emerged as a significant threat for the continuity of business. Keeping the gravity of the problem in mind, companies must understand the need for change and must now ...
Ambidextrous Strategy: Antecedents, Strategic Choices, and Performance
1st Edition
By Agnieszka Zakrzewska-Bielawska
August 29, 2022
Strategies of enterprises evolve with the development of strategic management theory and new concepts, models, and outlooks that emerge with it. The concept of ambidexterity is a relatively new approach to business development strategies, which involves simultaneous exploration and exploitation ...
Competitive International Strategy: Key Implementation Issues
1st Edition
Edited
By Anders Pehrsson
May 30, 2022
Contemporary businesses are exposed to global competition enhanced by new information technology and liberalized cross-border transactions in many industries. This introduces a new competitive dynamic, influenced by actors in developed and emerging markets. The dynamic puts major demands on ...