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'If strategy is the queen of business, then this book offers us the perfect introduction to her court! It is accessible, lively, and informative. The book repays the reader with wonderful account of how strategy works. It also lets the reader in on some of the darker secrets of strategy' - Andre Spicer, Associate Professor of Organisation Studies, Warwick Business School

Studying Strategy is a welcoming, lively and thought provoking account that helps students get to grips with strategy's key issues and broad debates and introduce them to the latest ideas.

Conceived by Chris Grey as an antidote to conventional textbooks, each book in the 'Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap' series takes a core area of the curriculum and turns it on its head by providing a critical and sophisticated overview of the key issues and debates in an informal, conversational and often humorous way.


Suitable for students of strategy at Undergraduate, Masters and MBA level, professionals involved in strategic decision making and anyone interested in how strategy works.


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′I love this book...it is novel, punchy and extremely well written. It takes the pomposity out of strategic management, showing that strategy is everywhere and can really help with the complicated jargon. A great read, buy it!′ -
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′If strategy is the queen of business, then this book offers us the perfect introduction to her court! It is accessable, lively, and informative. The book repays the reader with wonderful account of how strategy works. It also lets the reader in on some of the darker secrets of strategy′ -
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Warwick Business School

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Professor Chris Carter is from Cornwall, he teaches strategy at the University of St Andrews and also holds a visiting fellowship at the University of Technology, Sydney. His research explores the politics of strategy and campaigns. Chris received his PhD in Organization Theory from Aston Business School. He lives in Edinburgh.

Stewart Clegg is Professor at the University of Sydney in the School of Project Management and the John Grill Institute for Project Leadership and an Emeritus Professor of the University of Technology Sydney.



Martin Kornberger received his PhD form the University of Vienna in 2002. Currently he works as full time Visiting Professor at the Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School. Trained as philosopher, he researches and teaches about practices of organizing, strategizing, accounting, and marketing, and explores how they shape, and are shaped by, the economy and society at large.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ SAGE Publications Ltd (17 September 2008)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 178 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1412947871
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1412947879
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.9 x 1.02 x 19.81 cm
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    Chris Carter is from Cornwall and holds a chair in Strategy and Organization at the University of Edinburgh. Chris worked at the University of Leicester (1999-2002), before spending nearly a decade at the University of St Andrews (2002-2011) in Scotland, and two years at Newcastle University (2011-2013). He writes about strategy, change and accounting.

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Angie
5.0 out of 5 stars Strategy is everywhere.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 September 2019
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I am doing a MSc in Innovation, Leadership and Management. This book was recommended for my first module - Practicing Strategy.
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Vinyard
5.0 out of 5 stars Glad I purchased
Reviewed in the United States on 16 December 2016
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Interesting book with a catchy title. Glad I purchased.
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ShannonT
3.0 out of 5 stars Best for those involved with strategy.
Reviewed in the United States on 11 February 2013
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A couple of things about this book:

1. The title is misleading. It is, in-fact, not 'very short'. Though it may only be 170 pages (or thereabouts), it took me many, many hours of reading and rereading in order to absorb the many theories and studies that are presented in the text. Additionally, at $20 for the Kindle edition, it is not what I consider 'reasonably cheap.'

2. If you're not involved with strategy in your organization, this will most likely bore you to tears. I read this for the capstone course in my MBA program. I was warned ahead of time that it was the most boring book some of my classmates have ever read. With that said, I did find it 'fairly interesting' based on the fact that I actually am a strategic planner. Much of the content was applicable to what I do, and for the most part I could appreciate the authors waxing lyrical about strategy. However, I am vastly in the minority among my classmates when it comes to enjoyment and knowledge extraction from this book.

3. Though I did glean some pearls of wisdom, this text is a perfect example of academia being self-perpetuating. Although I admitted above to finding parts of it interesting from a strategist's perspective, the content is probably more appealing to business strategy professors rather than actual business strategy practitioners. (I should admit that I tend to be somewhat of a nerd when it comes to theory, so I enjoyed the academic-ness of it.) For the most part, the book is structured as so: a study by a professor is presented, another professor(s) studies that study, a different professor(s) finds faults in the study, still yet another professor(s) critiques and delves deeper into the study matter, and some other professor(s) decides to begin a completely new study based on the old study. And the authors of the book disagree with all of the studies (after they've presented an entire chapter going over every detail of said studies). Repeat.

Overall, it was a tolerable read. It was like reading a very, very long lecture. You'll get some nuggets of knowledge out of it, but for the most part it's lots of droning on and on.
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Ginny H
5.0 out of 5 stars What it says on the tin!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 June 2012
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It was short but very interesting! Summed up a lot of useful points and areas and gave a great foundation to learning about stragey. It's written very well, good detail but in a lighter tone and offers good references.
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Katie G.
4.0 out of 5 stars Not so interesting
Reviewed in the United States on 23 February 2016
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I wouldn't consider this book the most interesting by any means but it is nice that it is relatively short. It is a small book but very easy to hold. I wish it was a little cheaper for how small of a book it is.
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