Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
Competitive Strategy
Competitive Strategy is a key driver of industrial growth and economic development. Professor Michael Porter’s treatise, formulated in 1980, remains the only integrated work on the subject to date. While its core concepts endure, it requires the holistic incorporation of additional insights and prescriptions, based on current and future trends. This book reviews Porter’s work in the context of the global economic forces and rapid technological changes that have affected businesses and their strategies from the mid-2000s. It focuses on select aspects of competitive strategy particularly affected by such forces and develops several novel constructs to strengthen and expand the core analyti...
Leadership for India Inc.
Leadership is the engine of growth, in any walk of life. Leadership is often portrayed as the singular capability of an individual at the helm of an organisation. Theories and models of leadership that abound miss the point that true leadership is a highly multi-faceted and highly inclusive endeavour. This book Leadership for India Inc.: An Experiential Treatise is a unique work that is contextually relevant and culturally appropriate. Given that leadership with an Indian perspective is studied and researched less than it ought to be, this book fills a major gap. This book studies leadership from several practical and unique angles, and brings forth insights, models and constructs that are n...
From Start-Up to Ramp-Up
Entrepreneurship is much talked and written about in popular forums but there is no book that covers the subject in its varied and deep hues. This book is an insightful analysis of what entrepreneurship means and entails and how entrepreneurial ventures are built and grown in a sustainable manner, unravelling in its fourteen chapters a unique and phased discussion of Indian contextual realities and potentialities in global perspectives. It is loaded with several real life examples which are leveraged to develop constructs that aspiring entrepreneurs and start-up founders would find invaluable. The book brings out intricate facets of setting up and growing start-up and entrepreneurial ventures, and fills a major gap in the study and research of this domain.
Technology and Competitive Strategy
Competitive Strategy is a key driver of industrial growth and economic development. There has, however, been no book that expounds holistically the key role of technology in shaping and influencing competitive strategy. This book is an insightful analysis of the several ways in which technology drives competitive strategy. The book’s unique contributions lie in the classification of firms based on the concept of technology pyramid and articulation of characteristic strategies of innovators, differentiators and followers. The book develops a distinctive five forces model of technology and proposes three generic technology competitive strategies. It also focuses on the linkages between strategy, technology and regulation. Multiple themes are weaved together by the myriad threads of technology in a seamless and simple manner. It is loaded with innumerable real life examples which validate the constructs. The book would inspire technologists and strategists as well as academicians and administrators to deploy technology not only for competitive advantage at firm level but also for national comparative advantage and broader socio-economic equity.
Competitive Strategy
Competitive Strategy is a key driver of industrial growth and economic development. Professor Michael Porter's treatise, formulated in 1980, remains the only integrated work on the subject to date. While its core concepts endure, it requires the holistic incorporation of additional insights and prescriptions, based on current and future trends. This book reviews Porter's work in the context of the global economic forces and rapid technological changes that have affected businesses and their strategies from the mid-2000s. It focuses on select aspects of competitive strategy particularly affected by such forces and develops several novel constructs to strengthen and expand the core analytical ...
India as Global Start-up Hub
From Start-up to Ramp-up: Indian Context and Global Insights, published in July 2016, made a well-nuanced contribution to the much talked about domain of entrepreneurship. This book, India as Global Start-up Hub: Mission with Passion, is a significantly more detailed and insightful analysis of the multiple facets of start-up entrepreneurship in an integrative framework. The book unravels in its thirteen chapters a unique and phased discussion of Indian contextual realities and potentialities with global perspectives relevant for India to become a global start-up hub. The book also features twelve case studies that illustrate how founders conceptualised and grew their start-up ideas into successful and sustainable businesses in India. Through Chapter 14 reserved for the readers, the book encourages the readers to think, express and act on their own ideas, proposals and plans for reinforcing the Indian start-up ecosystem and even to turn into entrepreneurs and start-up founders themselves.
Legendary Leaders
This book covers certain legendary leaders from different domains and from different walks of life. Each legendary leader offers valuable leadership lessons. This book brings out insights which classic leadership writings do not usually bring out. Covering the leaders’ lives and role modelling, the book comes up with several novel leadership constructs. This book will be relevant to all students, academicians, and practitioners of management and leadership in any walk of life.
Strategic Marketing
Strategic marketing is the extended domain of marketing that deploys a mix of marketing and strategic approaches for the firm to achieve sustainable competitive advantage. This book titled “Strategic Marketing: Cases and Concepts from the Indian Business” is a practical exposition of the domain of strategic marketing with practical case studies from the Indian business over the last few decades. The book provides a fusion of academic frameworks and practical constructs, and sketches out multiple principles of strategic management that can be deployed in different industries. The book comprising, thirty chapters, is divided into four sections. With its comprehensive and in-depth coverage, this book should be of interest to students, academicians, and professionals interested in strategy, marketing, and business growth.
India As knowledge Society
India is today poised to be third largest economy globally by 2028. India is also now passionate about building new industrial sinews in sunrise sectors such as renewables, semiconductors, sensors, electric batteries, electronics and several other such domains. This book presents important perspectives covering the broad topic of India as Knowledge Society. The book has 22 chapters which are divided into two sections – Institutional Perspectives and Enterprise Perspectives. The book will be of interest to academicians, students, administrators, policy makers and professionals. As India becomes a knowledge society with multiple initiatives as discussed in this book, India would further reinforce its global economic standing.
Organizational Mastery
Organizations must have self-awareness, and an appreciation of what they can accomplish in the face of competitive and environmental factors. An awareness of what the entity is and what it can be is the key to embarking on a journey of organizational progress. This book titled ‘Organizational Mastery: Competence–Behaviour Frameworks’ aims to lead the readers on a journey of organizational mastery. Organizational mastery is not a matter of only competitive success or filling the organization with high talent of education and experience. It is a matter of getting the individual members of an organization, whether ordinary or extraordinary, collectively supercharge the aspirations and accomplishments of an organization. Organizational mastery involves building strong competencies and positive behaviours in all its members and translating them collectively and synergistically to organizational competencies and behaviours. This book presents multiple frameworks to achieve organizational mastery. This book will be of interest to students, faculty, industry professionals and administrators.
