TMGT 632 - Telecommunications management and strategy

Reading

The folllowing are materials which will help you complete the course and the assignments. The lists are not exhaustive, there are many other sources, nor are you expected to read everything here. However, it is usually helpful to read widely and especially to see conflicting perspectives on a problem. Specific chapters and readings are indicated for each class in the respective programmes:

ICTs and corporate strategy

Course text

Robert GRANT (2005) Contemporary Strategy Analysis: Concepts, Techniques, Applications, 5th ed. Blackwell Publishers: Oxford. [buy from Amazon.com]

Robert GRANT (2005) Cases to accompany contemporary strategy analysis. Blackwell Publishers, Oxford.

Journals

Students should read regularly The Economist and Business Week, plus CIO and Telecommunications. There are a number of academic and practitioner journals on strategy:

Electronic materials

Knowledge @ Wharton

The role of regulation in strategy McKinsey Quarterly

Printed materials

Chrisanthi Avgerou, Claudio Ciborra and Frank Land
Social Study of ICT. Oxford University Press, 2004;

John Battelle
The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture. Portfolio, 2005

Paulina Beato and Jean-Jacques Laffont (editors)
Competition policy in regulated industries: approaches for emerging economies. Inter-American Development Bank, 2003.

David Boddy, A Boonstra and G Kennedy
Managing information systems: an organizational perspective, Financial Times/Prentice Hall 2002.

Erik Brynjolfsson and G. Urban (editors)
Strategies For E-Business Success. Jossey, Bass, 2002.

Robert A Burgelman, Andrew S Grove and Philip E Meza
Strategic dynamics: concepts and cases, McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2005

Clayton M. Christensen, Mark W. Johnson and Darrell K. Rigby.
"Foundations for Growth: How to Build Disruptive New Businesses
Sloan Management Review 43 (3), Spring 2002, pp 22-31.

M A Cusumano and C C Mardikes (editors)
Strategic Thinking For The New Economy. Jossey Bass, 2001.

M A Cusumano and D Yoffie
Competing On Internet Time. Touchstone, 2000.

R Foster and S Kaplan
Creative Destruction. Currency Doubleday, 2000.

J Galbraith
Designing the Global Corporation. Jossey Bass, 2000.

S Ghoshal and C. A. Bartlett.
The Individualized Corporation. Harper Business, 1997.

Andy Grove
Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company and Career. Currency Doubleday, 1996.

Robert H Grant
"The Resource-Based Theory of Competitive Advantage: Implications for Strategy Formulation" California Management Review 33 (3) 1991.

Ranjay Gulati and Jason Garino
"Get the Right Mix of Bricks and Clicks"
Harvard Business Review, May-June 2000, pp 107-114.

Gary Hamel and C K Prahalad
Competing For the Future. Harvard Business School Press, 1996.

Gary Hamel
Leading the Revolution. Harvard Business School Press, 2000.

R S Kaplan and D P Norton
The Strategy-Focused Organization. Harvard Business School Press, 2001.

Mary Lacity and Leslie Willcocks
Global Sourcing of Business and IT Services. Wiley2006

Henry C Lucas
Strategies for Electronic Commerce and the Internet. MIT Press, 2003.

Nigel Melville, Kenneth Kraemer & Vijay Gurbaxani
"Information Technology and Organizational Performance: An Integrative Model of IT Business Value" MIS Quarterly 28 (2)

Henry Mintzberg
Managers ot MBAs: A Hard Look at the Soft Practice of Managing and Management Development Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2004.

Henry Mintzberg, Bruce Ahlstrand and Joseph Lampel
Strategy bites back, it is far more, and less, than you ever imagined. FT Prentice-Hall, 2005.

Kenichi Ohmae
The Next Global Stage: The Challenges and Opportunities in Our Borderless World Wharton School Publishing, 2005.

Gabriele Piccoli and Blake Ives
"IT-Dependent Strategic Initiatives and Sustained Competitive Advantage: A Review and Synthesis of the Literature" MIS Quaterly 29 (4) December 2005.

Michael E Porter
"Towards a Dynamic Theory of Strategy" Strategic Management Journal 12, 1991, pp 95-117.

Michael E Porter
Competitive Advantage. Free Press, 1985.

Michael E Porter
The Competitive Advantage of Nations. Free Press, 1990.

C K Prahalad and Gary Hamel
"The Core Competence of the Corporation" Harvard Business Review, May-June 1990.

C K Prahalad
The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits Wharton School Publishing; 2004.

F F Reichheld and P Schefter
"E-Loyalty: Your Secret Weapon on the Web" Harvard Business Review, July-August 2000, pp105-113.

Ron Sanchez and Aimé Heene
The New Strategic Management: Organization, Competition, and Competence, Wiley, 2003.

Carl Shapiro and Hal Varian
Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy. Harvard Business School Press, 1998.

Carl Shapiro and Hal Varian
“The Art of Standards Wars” California Management Review, Winter 1999.

Gregory SIDAK and Hal SINGER
Überregulation without economics: the World Trade Organization’s decision in the U.S.-Mexico arbitration on telecommunications services

I Sinha
"Cost Transparency: The Net’s Real Threat to Prices and Brands" Harvard Business Review, March-April 2000, pp 43-50.

Adrian J Slywotzky and Richard Wise
"The Growth Crisis and How to Escape It" Harvard Business Review 80 (7), July 2002, pp 72-83.

J Utterback
Mastering The Dynamics of Innovation: How Companies Can Seize Opportunities in the Face of Technological Change. Harvard Business School Press, 1994.

Peter Weill and Jeanne Ross
IT Governance: How Top Performers Manage IT Decision Rights for Superior Results, Harvard Business School Press 2004.

World Trade Organisation
Report on the US-Mexico telecom dispute

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