Support your students' strategic thinking skills with the latest strategy concepts

Designed to help students think and behave like a manager, Exploring Strategy is an essential introduction to the field for the managers of today and tomorrow.

Encourage your students to tackle real world-challenges.

From entrepreneurial start-ups to multinationals and charities to a range of public sector organisations, this book raises all the big questions about organisations - how they prosper, grow, innovate, and change.

This Text and Cases version also provides a wealth of extra case studies written by experts to support your teaching further as you guide your students through the Manager-way of thinking. The plethora of examples include Siemens, Mars, Formula 1, Glastonbury, and the Indian Premier League.

Also available with a Companion Website.

Hallmark Features of this title

Outstanding pedagogical features encourage innovative and critical thinking from theory to practice.

• Each chapter has clear learning outcomes, practical questions, real-life illustrations, and examples for your students to easily apply to what they have learnt.
• You can choose between the Text and Cases version of the book, or the Text-only version if you don't use longer cases (or have your own).
• The Strategy Lenses and commentaries are designed to encourage critical thinking, while the 'Thinking Differently' sections introduce your students to new and distinctive approaches to key issues of the chapter.
• A wide range of Illustrations, Examples, and longer Case Studies (in the T&C version) engage with student interests and day-to-day experience.

Pearson's webinar series "Changing Perspectives": a conversation about the leading themes for strategy.

As part of our webinar series, authors Richard Whittington, Duncan Angwin, and Patrick Regnér spoke about the constantly changing contemporary landscape in strategic management.

The webinar "Three Themes for Strategy", focused on the three areas of development in strategic management - digital transformation, sustainability and non-profit. The authors also discussed the ways educators can overcome the challenges these areas pose to teaching.

Read our blog post 'Three themes for Strategy: Digital transformation, Sustainability and Non-profit' for more information and access to the webinar YouTube video and presentation.

New and updated features of this title

Guide your students through the latest developments in strategic thinking from theory to practice.

• Cases and examples: A wide range of fresh and extensively revised Case Examples, Illustrations, and long Case Studies (in the Text and Cases version) engage with student interests and day-to-day experience.
• Fully updated material: we have fully revised all chapters, incorporated new research and updated references so your students can easily access the latest developments in the field.
• Practical guidance and new material: New Chapter 2 introduces students to the fundamental tools of strategic thinking, explains the use of frameworks in strategy, and guides students in case study analysis and presentations.

Teach content with an increased emphasis on the most up-to-date developments in the field.

• A strong focus on non-profits, sustainability, and digital transformation: this edition features three cross-cutting themes reflecting contemporary strategic issues increasingly important and attractive to students.
• An increased appreciation of "non-Western" approaches to strategic issues: we introduce readers to concepts coming from outside the mainstream strategic thinking, such as the Jugaard innovation, ubuntu view on stakeholders, hoshin kanri, and indigenous leadership theories.