Enterprise and Culture (Routledge Studies in Entrepreneurship and Small Business)

Enterprise and Culture is a uniquely wide-ranging, insightful and well-informed critical evaluation of the economic and social project of creating an enterprise culture. Colin Gray argues that the failure of small enterprise policy is not just a question of economics, but is also caused by psychological and cultural factors. The book demonstrates that the individualism at the centre of enterprise culture policies is, itself, the main impediment to the successful growth and development of small enterprises.

Business & Money

Gray, Colin

Economics

Routledge

Offering a new understanding of familiar material, this book looks at small businesses from a knowledge perspective. Exploring how knowledge management can affect both the behaviour and performance of small businesses, Gray examines the significance of knowledge management over the different stages of the life-cycle of a business, looking at its importance during the emergence, growth and development of a small firm.

Managing Knowledge and the Small Firm (Routledge Studies in Entrepreneurship and Small Business)

Management & Leadership

Strategy and History

Strategy and History comprises a selection of Professor Gray's key contributions to strategic debate over the past thirty years. These essays have been selected both because they had significant messages for contemporary controversies, and because they have some continuing relevance for today and the future. Each essay in this book is really about strategy in the modern world, and reflects the many dimensions of this complex subject. This book covers a wide range of subjects and historical events, but there are key issues covered throughout: <ul>
<li>being strategic </li> <li>the consequences of actions</li> <li>a respect for Clausewitz’s theory of war</li> <li>historical dependency</li> <li>the importance of geography</li> <li>being critical of enthusiasm for technology over human factors </li> <li>the primacy of politics.</li>
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This important publication provides an invaluable insight into the development of strategic studies over the past 30 years from one of the world's leading theorists and practitioners of the subject. The book will be of great interest to all students and analysts of strategy and international studies.

Strategy and History: Essays on Theory and Practice

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Enterprise and Culture is a uniquely wide-ranging, insightful and well-informed critical evaluation of the economic and social project of creating an enterprise culture.Colin Gray argues that the failure of small enterprise policy is not just a question of economics, but is also caused by psychological and cultural factors. The book demonstrates that the individualism at the centre of enterprise culture policies is, itself, the main impediment to the successful growth and development of small enterprises.

War, Peace and International Relations

War, Peace and International Relations provides an introduction to the strategic history of the past two centuries, showing how those 200 years were shaped and reshaped extensively by war. The book takes a broad view of what was relevant to the causes, courses, and consequences of wars. Written by leading strategist Professor Colin Gray, the book provides students with a good grounding in the contribution of war to the development of the modern world, from the pre-industrial era to the age of international terrorism and smart weapons. This second edition has been thoroughly revised and updated: <ul>
<li>It is the first one-volume strategic history textbook on the market;</li> <li>It covers all the major wars of the past two centuries;</li> <li>It is up to date and comprehensive, including a new section on the American Civil War, a new chapter on geography and strategy, and completely rewritten chapters on Iraq and Afghanistan in the 2000s and on irregular warfare.</li>
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This textbook will be essential reading for students of strategic studies, security studies, war studies, international relations and international history.

War, Peace and International Relations: An introduction to strategic history

Othello (Heinemann Shakespeare)

Heinemann

Strategy for Chaos (Strategy and History)

In this volume, Professor Colin Gray develops and applies the theory and scholarship on the allegedly historical practice of the 'Revolution in Military Affairs' (RMA), in order to improve our comprehension of how and why strategy 'works'.The author explores the RMA hypothesis both theoretically and historically. The book argues that the conduct of an RMA has to be examined as a form of strategic behaviour, which means that, of necessity, it must "work" as strategy works. The great RMA debate of the 1990s is reviewed empathetically, though sceptically, by the author, with every major school of thought allowed its day in court.The author presents three historical RMAs as case studies for his argument: those arguably revealed in the wars of the French Revolution and Napoleon; in World War I; and in the nuclear age. The focus of his analysis is how these grand RMAs functioned strategically. The conclusions that he draws from these empirical exercises are then applied to help us understand what, indeed, is - and what is not - happening with the much vaunted information-technology-led RMA of today.

Strategy for Chaos: Revolutions in Military Affairs and the Evidence of History (Strategy and History)

History

Military

In this volume, Professor Colin Gray develops and applies the theory and scholarship on the allegedly historical practice of the 'Revolution in Military Affairs' (RMA), in order to improve our comprehension of how and why strategy 'works'. The author explores the RMA hypothesis both theoretically and historically. The book argues that the conduct of an RMA has to be examined as a form of strategic behaviour, which means that, of necessity, it must "work" as strategy works. The great RMA debate of the 1990s is reviewed empathetically, though sceptically, by the author, with every major school of thought allowed its day in court. The author presents three historical RMAs as case studies for his argument: those arguably revealed in the wars of the French Revolution and Napoleon; in World War I; and in the nuclear age. The focus of his analysis is how these grand RMAs functioned strategically. The conclusions that he draws from these empirical exercises are then applied to help us understand what, indeed, is - and what is not - happening with the much vaunted information-technology-led RMA of today.

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Enterprise and Culture (Routledge Studies in Entrepreneurship and Small Business)

Managing Knowledge and the Small Firm (Routledge Studies in Entrepreneurship and Small Business)

Strategy and History: Essays on Theory and Practice

Strategy and History

Enterprise and Culture (Routledge Studies in Entrepreneurship and Small Business)

War, Peace and International Relations: An introduction to strategic history

War, Peace and International Relations

Othello (Heinemann Shakespeare)

Strategy for Chaos: Revolutions in Military Affairs and the Evidence of History (Strategy and History)

Strategy for Chaos (Strategy and History)