📘 Strategic Management | 2nd Edition (2025)
✒️ Authored by N. Chandrasekaran & P.S. Ananthanarayanan
🎯 A Comprehensive Guide for Management Students, Professionals & Strategists in a Rapidly Globalising World
🔍 Key Highlights:
✅ Integrated Global & Indian Context
Examines strategic thinking through real-world Indian and international business cases—mergers, alliances, digitalisation, and sustainability.
✅ Evolutionary Approach to Strategy
Traces the growth of strategic management from Long Range Planning to today’s agile and tech-driven strategies.
✅ Application-Focused
🧠 Practical insights through case studies, project assignments, real-life exhibits, and chapter-wise analysis tools.
✅ Thematic & Structured Learning
Each chapter offers learning objectives, real-world illustrations, keywords, summaries, and review questions for in-depth understanding.
📚 Coverage Includes:
Strategic Planning to Execution – Tools like SWOT, TOWS, BPR, Benchmarking, Kaizen
Corporate Strategy – M&A, Joint Ventures, Strategic Alliances
Global Strategy & Risk Management – Cross-border strategies, COVID-19 impact, Corporate Risk
Governance & Ethics – CSR, Corporate Governance, Business Ethics
Cost & Control Mechanisms – Strategic Cost Management, Evaluation & Monitoring
Emerging Themes – Digitalisation, Technology, Globalisation, Sustainability
🧩 Also Features:
📂 50+ Case Studies including:
Tata Starbucks | Reliance | Jio Mart
Sony–Zee Merger | Walmart | Amazon
NTPC | EID Parry | Bharti Airtel
Jubilant FoodWorks | Indian Bank–Allahabad Bank Merger
📖 Ideal For:
MBA, PGDM, BBA, Executive Learners | Practising Managers | Strategy Consultants | Corporate Leaders
🔗 Why This Book Stands Out:
It empowers readers to formulate, implement, evaluate, and lead strategy in today's volatile business environment—blending Indian ethos with global best practices.