Strategy for the Global Market: Theory and Practical Applications - Hardcover

'Drawing on 45 years of experience in global markets, gained as a student, teacher, and active advisor across sectors and regions, Vladimir Kvint offers a wise and powerful theory of business strategy and provides a roadmap to practitioners which, if followed with discipline, will inform tactics and lead to long term success.' - Sharon P. Smith, President, University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, USA

'This pathbreaking book studies the concept of strategy, surveying its development from ancient times to the present and showing how it is basic to both economic growth and the quality of life. Strategists, Kvint explains, work to find new perspectives and to project new scenarios into the future. This original, deep and practical book is a must-read for all of us who want to understand modern economies.' - Edmund Phelps, the 2006 Nobel Laureate in Economics and Director, Center on Capitalism and Society, Columbia University, USA

'Kvint does a superb job of clearly explaining business strategy and the global market environment. The book is very timely and it is well suited for executives in strategic implementation as well graduate students in business, economics, finance or international affairs. Strategy practitioners and their firms will gain tremendous insights from this excellent explanation of the concepts.' - Y. Joseph Ugras, Dean of the College of Professional and Continuing Studies, Lasalle University, USA

In the twenty-first century, the global community constantly strives to bring structure and order to the world through strategic means. From the highest levels of governments and militaries to multilateral institutions, NGOs, and corporations, a strategy for the future of a company, region, country, or even the world is tantamount to success. Yet few understand what strategy actually is and how it can be developed, planned, and implemented.

Strategy for the Global Market combines a fundamental study of the theory of strategy with its practical applications to provide a new approach to the global emerging market. Due to the technological transformations in communications and transportation, and the birth and development of both the global community and the global marketplace over the past twenty years, the world’s population and corporations are in much closer contact with their counterparts across the globe than ever before. This has led to increasing competition and even rivalries. Understanding the strategic environment, as well as solving problems either through amicable means or conflict, requires the powerful instrument of strategy to remain efficient and to triumph.

Features of this book include:

• Methodology and practical recommendations for all stages of developing and implementing strategy.
• A comprehensive guide with explanations and descriptions, for the preparation and orderly compilation of all necessary strategy documents.
• Real-world examples taken from corporate, government, and military strategizing practices in emerging market countries and the global marketplace.

This book should be on the desk of every national, regional, and military leader, corporate executive, manager, and student of strategy.