INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY BREMEN

Strategic Management in the Innovation Economy

   

New Book co-authored by IUB professor Sven Völpel

The book Strategic Management in the Innovation Economy, published jointly by Publicis Corporate Publishing and Wiley-VCH Publishers, is the first to comprehensively address the topic of innovation from a strategic point of view using a combination of theory and case studies. The book, authored by Thomas H. Davenport, Marius Leibold and Sven Völpel, is available now.

[ Dec 13, 2005]  During the past few years, the global environment has been increasingly causing revolutionary, disruptive innovation changes in traditional industries, corporations and business models. Traditional approaches to strategy are proving to be inadequate to deal with these changes, and those who want to survive and succeed in the highly competitive global economy urgently need more dynamic, innovative and holistic approaches to strategy and strategic management.

The major focus of this book is to provide new strategic management approaches and tools to enable capabilities for rapid, discontinuous organizational innovation and change. For both advanced students and business managers, it presents a combination of leading-edge theory supported by published articles of prominent scholars, and case studies as well as examples, to illustrate new strategic approaches, tools, and practical applications.

About the Authors:

Thomas H. Davenport is one of the world’s most influential business intellectuals and a best selling author. He is the President's Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management at Babson College, Director of Research at Babson Executive Education, and an Accenture Fellow. He has a Ph.D. from Harvard University in organizational behavior.

Marius Leibold is Professor in Strategy at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, and visiting professor at various universities in Europe and the USA. Author of various publications on strategic management he also is a director of the WISE (Wisdom-Innovation-Strategy-Energy) program, a collaborative research program between academic and business organizations in the USA, Europe, Africa and Asia.

Sven Völpel is Professor of Business Administration at IUB’s Jacobs Center for Lifelong Learning and Institutional Development and a director of the WISE research group. Besides various professorships around the world he is also a Visiting Fellow at Harvard Business School and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University since 2001.

 


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