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Haberberg and Rieple: Strategic Management

Chapter 01

For some more definitions of strategy in different contexts, and a long list of further links that you can follow up, go to: http://www.answers.com/topic/strategy?cat=biz-fin

Throughout the book we use illustrative examples from four well-known companies - BA, H&M, McDonald’s, and Sony. Their corporate websites - investor relations pages specifically - are usually the first port of call for understanding their strategies:
BA’s is: http://www.bashares.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=69499&p=IROL-index
H&M’s is: http://www.hm.com/gb/investorrelations__investor.nhtml
McDonald’s is: http://www.mcdonalds.com/corp/invest.html
Sony’s is: http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/IR/

A summary of BA’s history and general activities in 2007 is available at:
http://media.corporate-ir.net/media_files/irol/69/69499/bafactbook/2007/Section2_March2007.pdf
H&M’s similar site can be found at:
http://www.hm.com/gb/abouthm/factsabouthm/hminbrief__hminbreif.nhtml
McDonald’s is at:
http://www.mcdonalds.com/corp/about/mcd_history_pg1.html
and Sony’s is at:
http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/CorporateInfo/History/

For some more well known organizations, the Fortune 500 list of the largest global companies can be found at:
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2007/full_list
For information on IBM’s history, see:
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/history/decade_1990.html
See www.greenpeace.org for some information on its stakeholders, users, customers / clients, and economic objectives.

Wikipedia provides a comprehensive portal with numerous links to relevant websites on the different forms of organization and the history of theorizing in this area:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organization
http://www.answers.com/topic/industry?cat=biz-fin also has a useful summary of the various definitions of industries, markets, and segments.

For an introduction and links to psychological approaches to organizations, including economic and bounded rationality, heuristics and satisficing, also see the Wikipedia site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_economics

An interesting interview with Gareth Morgan on Images of organization can be found at: http://www.imaginiz.com/provocative/metaphors/questions.html#whatsnew
The article on Samsung ‘s digital supremacy can be found at: http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/article559679.ece

Comeback and more information on the airbus and Boeing rivalry can be found at:
http://www.airbus.com/en/airbusfor/analyzts/ and http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_38/b3900083_mz054.htm

For some information on Bertelsmann’s restructuring see:
http://search.ft.com/nonFtArticle?id=020205001599
and also:http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9805E2D71539F935A35752C1A9669C8B63&n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/People/Z/Zelnick,%20Strauss