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Author Betz, Frederick, author

Title Strategic business models : idealism and realism in strategy / Frederick Betz
Edition First edition
Published Bingley, UK : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018
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Contents Intro; Strategic Business Models; Strategic Business Models: Idealism and Realism in Strategy; Contents; List of Figures; Preface; Chapter 1: Modeling Business Strategy; Introduction; Strategic Business Models; Case Study: Amazon Acquires Wholefoods in 2017; Strategic Business Models: Whole Foods and Amazon; Case Study: The Commercial Bank of Wells Fargo in 2016; Enterprises Systems and Business Environments; Summary; Chapter 2: Strategic Sales -- The Case of Amazon; Introduction; Case Study: Amazon First Strategic Model: New Book Retail; Amazon's First Strategic Business Model
Amazon's Second Strategic Business Model: MarketplaceAmazon's Third Strategic Business Model: eBook; Strategic Factor of "Sales"; Summary; Chapter 3: Strategic Capital -- The Case of Barings Bank; Introduction; Case Study: Barings Bank; Strategic Business Model of Banks; Case Study: Collapse of Barings Bank; Financial Derivatives as Casino Banking; Case Study (Continued): Baring's Rogue Trader; Bank Salaries from Loan Activity and from Trading; Case Study (Continued): The Rogue Trader's Secret Account; Summary: Capital and Business Strategy; Chapter 4: Strategic Resources -- The Case of Intel
Case History: The IC Chip Industry -- Capital Structures and Schumpeterian Creative-DestructionUS Conglomerates; Case: Wall Street Junk Bonds; Strategic Control; Chapter 7: Strategic Business Environment -- The Case of the Great Depression; Introduction; Case History: US Great Depression; Economic Theory: Commodity and Financial Markets; Case History: US Great Depression (Continued); Societal Models; Case History (Continued): US Depression; Summary: Business Environments; Chapter 8: Strategic Financial Markets -- The Case of Securitization; Introduction; Traditional Role of Investment Banking
Chapter 5: Strategic Profit -- The Case of HyundaiIntroduction; Case Study -- Hyundai; Strategic Business Model of Hyundai Group; Industrial Dynamics of the US Automobile Industry in the Twentieth Century; Case Study -- Hyundai Motor; Strategic Business Models and Operations Models; Transformation Plane Activities; Support Plane Activities; Control Plane Activities; Summary; Chapter 6: Strategic Control -- Case Studies on Global Holding Companies; Introduction; Case Study: Berkshire Hathaway; Berkshire Hathaway's Strategic Business Model; Zaibatsu/Keiretsu in Japan; Korean Chaebols
IntroductionHistory: Invention of the Transistor; Technological Innovation as a Strategic Resource; History -- Invention of the IC Chip; Theory: Moore's Law as the Technology Roadmap for the Chip Industry; History: Founding Intel; Memory IC Chips -- Intel's Strategic Business Model; Creative Destruction in the Memory Chip Industry -- 1981; Schumpeterian Theory of Creative Destruction in Industrial Dynamics; Case History: Intel's Microprocessor Innovation; Intel's Microprocessor Business Model; Summary: Technology as a Resource and Business Competitiveness
Summary As strategic business models are important to understand the transformative operations of an enterprise system, for present and future competitiveness, Betz's exploration into both manufacturing and financial firms, along with retailing firms and conglomerates, broadens the business literature
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 5, 2018)
Subject Business planning.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1787567095 (electronic bk.)
9781787567092 (electronic bk.)