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matter of readership policy, reviewer preference will be given significant recent advances in strategic choice theory in
to practising managers, or planners. Your interest should be activities ranging from gift giving to political wheeling and
expressed as a specific request to review a book from Review dealing. Fundamental questions for strategy continually
Briefs, preferably giving some intimation of why you think reappear: What factors motivate individuals' values and
your review would be of interest to readers, addressed to: action? What principles guide effective bargaining? H o w can
incentives and decision processes be structured to yield
Bruce Lloyd, Book Review Editor, 48 Aberdare Gar- desirable collective outcomes ? A useful read for managers and
dens, London NW6 3QA, U.K. strategic planners.
Strategies of Growth: Maturity, Recovery and Internationaliz- Strategy: Seeking and Securing Competitive Advantage, CVNTmA
ation, PETERMcKIERNAN,Routledge (1992), 174 pp., 30.00 A. MONTGOMERYand M~CHAELPORTER (Eds) Harvard Busi-
(hardback), 9.99 (softback). ness Review (1991), 475 pp., 26.95.
Concentrates on the 'forgotten cell' (dogs) of the Boston A collection of 23 articles from the Harvard Business Review
Matrix and examines alternative strategies for their recovery (1979-1990) on the overall theme but broken down into four
arguing that we should think much more creatively before we parts: Business Strategy; Linking Competitive Strategy and
decide to rely on automatic prescriptions of divestment for any Functional Strategy; Evolving Nature of International C o m -
low-share, low-growth businesses. Macro background in- petition; Corporate Strategy and Firm Scope. A must for any
formation on four key industries is contained in Globalisation of strategist who did not see the originals.
industrial activities: Four Case Studies: Auto Parts, Chemicals,
Construction and Semiconductors, OECD (1992), 160 pp., FF150.