Includes index. Paroutis, S., Heracleous, L., & Angwin, D. (2016). Practicing strategy : text and cases (2nd ed.). Los Angeles : SAGE.

Practicing strategy: foundations and importance -- Section A: Practitioners -- Chief executive officers -- Chief strategy officers -- Strategy teams -- Middle managers -- Strategy consultants -- Section B: Practices -- Strategy tools -- Influencing strategy through discourse -- Section C: Praxis -- Strategic alignment: the ESCO model -- Practicing strategy across firms: insights from M&As -- Strategic ambidexterity: dealing with tensions -- Section D: Case studies -- Teaching strategy using the strategy-as-practice approach -- Strategic leadership and innovation at Apple Inc. -- Centrica: strategizing in a multi-utility -- Narayana health: bringing quality healthcare to the masses -- A "reliable" recovery? the turnaround of the reliant group -- Marconi: when startegists hit the perfect storm -- Lafarge vs. blue circle: practices in a hostile takeover -- Room for improvement? relocating a business school -- 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. Also new to the 2nd edition are *7 New chapters on topics such as Chief Executive Officers, Middle Managers, Strategic Alignment and Strategic Ambidexterity in line with developments in the field *New case studies throughout including Narayana health, the turnaround of Reliant group and relocating a business school *Tutor and student access to a companion website where you will find additional online readings and more. The approach through a mix of academic studies and applied research is aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students taking advanced strategy modules and practitioners alike.