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A top management team (TMT) matters for its organization, right? While researchers have established that TMTs do "matter," the ways in which TMTs do that are complex and opaque. This book outlines how a TMT can matter most for its organization, and it does so in a positive way by considering the most recent academic and practical insights. Two factors are critical: (1) inside the boardroom, TMT members' behavior determines the quality of strategic decisions, and (2) outside the boardroom, the way in which the TMT works with middle managers is crucial for the subsequent implementation of those decisions. Understanding how these two factors can be effectively performed can help TMT members, middle managers, team coaches, HR practitioners, and so on to grasp the complex mechanisms of TMT impact.

Senior leadership teams. --- Management. --- top management team --- middle managers --- organizational performance --- organizational impact --- strategic decision making

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The study of management and organization has transitioned from approaches to deal with steady state management, to approaches that can cope with unknown or unknowable futures. The strategy field has has moved from business policy, through strategic planning, onto strategic management and now grapples with dynamic contexts as the new normal. In that trend the field has seen a broad movement in research interests in corporate and competitive strategies towards an emphasis on the managers strategic role. Through this shift, strategy has moved from a concept of something organizations have towards something that managers do. This has happened while traditional boundaries of industries have become permeable and even melted away. Managers tasked with doing strategy have lost not just the certainty of a goal-oriented future, but also the certainty of understanding their current position. Decision-making tools have now moved from answer generators to scenario builders. When decisions can rely less on evidence and certainty, it is managers that take up the slack and fill the void. This book focuses on the challenge of making strategic decisions in conditions of uncertainty.

E-books --- Decision making --- Risk management --- Strategic planning --- Decision making. --- Strategic decision making. --- Deciding --- Decision (Psychology) --- Decision analysis --- Decision processes --- Making decisions --- Management --- Management decisions --- Choice (Psychology) --- Problem solving --- Goal setting (Strategic planning) --- Planning, Strategic --- Strategic intent (Strategic planning) --- Strategic management --- Planning --- Business planning --- Insurance --- Business & Economics --- Business strategy. --- Risk management. --- Strategic planning. --- Strategic Planning.

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It is widely accepted that a large proportion of acquisition strategies fail to deliver the expected value. Globalizing markets characterized by growing uncertainty, together with the advent of new competitors, are further complicating the task of valuing acquisitions. Too often, managers rely on flawed valuation models or their intuition and experience when making risky investment decisions, exposing their companies to potentially costly pitfalls. Playing at Acquisitions provides managers with a powerful methodology for designing and executing successful acquisition strategies. The book tackles the myriad executive biases that infect decision making at every stage of the acquisition process, and the inadequacy of current valuation approaches to help mitigate these biases and more realistically represent value in uncertain environments.Bringing together the latest advances in behavioral finance, real option valuation, and game theory, this unique playbook explains how to express acquisition strategies as sets of real options, explicitly introducing uncertainty and future optionality into acquisition strategy design. It shows how to incorporate the competitive dynamics that exist in different acquisition contexts, acknowledge and even embrace uncertainty, identify the value of the real options embedded in targets, and more.Rooted in economic theory and featuring numerous real-world case studies, Playing at Acquisitions will enhance the ability of CEOs and their teams to derive value from their acquisition strategies, and is also an ideal resource for researchers and MBAs.

Consolidation and merger of corporations. --- Corporations --- Stocks --- Acquisition of corporations --- Acquisitions and mergers --- Amalgamation of corporations --- Business combinations --- Business mergers --- Buyouts, Corporate --- Corporate acquisitions --- Corporate buyouts --- Corporate mergers --- Corporate takeovers --- Fusion of corporations --- Hostile takeovers of corporations --- M & A (Mergers and acquisitions of corporations) --- Merger of corporations --- Mergers and acquisitions of corporations --- Mergers, Corporate --- Takeovers, Corporate --- Valuation. --- Valuation --- Consolidation --- Mergers --- Corporate reorganizations --- Golden parachutes (Executive compensation) --- Industrial concentration --- Trusts, Industrial --- Finance --- Consolidation and merger of corporations --- E-books --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Finance. --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Mergers & Acquisitions. --- CEOs. --- Chris Gent. --- Falconbridge. --- Vodafone. --- Xstrata. --- acquisition process. --- acquisition strategy. --- acquisition. --- acquisitions. --- behavioral finance. --- bidding. --- company valuation. --- competitive games. --- deal framing. --- deal markets. --- decision bias. --- decision framework. --- decision making. --- economic theory. --- executives. --- game theory. --- investment. --- investments. --- market value. --- option bidding. --- option games. --- rational analyses. --- real option theory. --- real option valuation. --- real options theory. --- real options. --- strategic decision making. --- uncertainty. --- valuation analysis. --- valuation. --- value-based framework. --- volatility.

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This book focuses on the much-needed efforts to design sustainable, well-being-oriented economies, based on appropriate energy use in all sectors of a country´s development. Carbon neutrality, energy efficiency and effectiveness, renewable energies, circular economy strategies, environmental consequences of energy use, engagement and empowerment of local communities in decision making, energy and environmental impacts of consumer behavior, and finally science-based approaches towards sustainable production and consumption are the main focus of the research activities described within this book. An effort to go beyond energy scarcity, to promote energy communities, to explore new technologies, and overall, to understand and address the population-lifestyle-energy nexus towards increased and shared well-being is the final result jointly provided by the book authors. All in all, the aim is for the book to be the starting point of a deeper research and understanding of the importance of a radical improvement in energy use in society, beyond considering energy as just a resource in the world market. Circular economy aspects are also investigated, showing the energy saving potential associated with the appropriate design and recovery of material resources.

Research & information: general --- Physics --- energy consumption for heating --- CO2 emissions --- income --- buildings --- cities --- Spain --- emissions --- CO2 --- GWP --- functional unit --- natural gas --- SOFC --- optimal layout --- wake effect --- fluctuation --- wind farm --- ramping rate --- energy policy investments --- cost-benefit analysis --- social discount rate --- dual discounting --- energy transition index --- energy consumer --- behavioural model --- consumer segmentation --- socioeconomic characteristics --- end user profile --- energy awareness --- electricity --- efficiency --- multifractal detrended fluctuation analysis --- multifractality --- MLM --- rolling window --- smart grids --- demand response --- island communities --- social acceptance --- technology readiness --- sustainability --- Italy --- Ireland --- multi-regional input–output --- nexus --- trade --- Belt and Road --- renewable energy --- potential --- Indonesia --- literature review --- 100% renewables --- scenario --- energy savings --- circular economy --- construction and demolition waste --- recycled aggregates --- agri-food by-products --- urban building energy model --- UBEM --- level of detail --- LOD --- shadowing --- thermal zoning --- s-LCA --- LCA --- energy communities --- empowerment --- energy justice --- resource sustainability --- exergy --- exergy cost accounting --- exergy cost of biological resources --- decarbonisation --- climate neutrality --- industrial energy saving --- strategic decision making --- net-zero --- road mapping --- energy efficiency --- ideal mix --- sustainability strategy --- energy efficiency index --- n/a --- multi-regional input-output

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This book focuses on the much-needed efforts to design sustainable, well-being-oriented economies, based on appropriate energy use in all sectors of a country´s development. Carbon neutrality, energy efficiency and effectiveness, renewable energies, circular economy strategies, environmental consequences of energy use, engagement and empowerment of local communities in decision making, energy and environmental impacts of consumer behavior, and finally science-based approaches towards sustainable production and consumption are the main focus of the research activities described within this book. An effort to go beyond energy scarcity, to promote energy communities, to explore new technologies, and overall, to understand and address the population-lifestyle-energy nexus towards increased and shared well-being is the final result jointly provided by the book authors. All in all, the aim is for the book to be the starting point of a deeper research and understanding of the importance of a radical improvement in energy use in society, beyond considering energy as just a resource in the world market. Circular economy aspects are also investigated, showing the energy saving potential associated with the appropriate design and recovery of material resources.

energy consumption for heating --- CO2 emissions --- income --- buildings --- cities --- Spain --- emissions --- CO2 --- GWP --- functional unit --- natural gas --- SOFC --- optimal layout --- wake effect --- fluctuation --- wind farm --- ramping rate --- energy policy investments --- cost-benefit analysis --- social discount rate --- dual discounting --- energy transition index --- energy consumer --- behavioural model --- consumer segmentation --- socioeconomic characteristics --- end user profile --- energy awareness --- electricity --- efficiency --- multifractal detrended fluctuation analysis --- multifractality --- MLM --- rolling window --- smart grids --- demand response --- island communities --- social acceptance --- technology readiness --- sustainability --- Italy --- Ireland --- multi-regional input–output --- nexus --- trade --- Belt and Road --- renewable energy --- potential --- Indonesia --- literature review --- 100% renewables --- scenario --- energy savings --- circular economy --- construction and demolition waste --- recycled aggregates --- agri-food by-products --- urban building energy model --- UBEM --- level of detail --- LOD --- shadowing --- thermal zoning --- s-LCA --- LCA --- energy communities --- empowerment --- energy justice --- resource sustainability --- exergy --- exergy cost accounting --- exergy cost of biological resources --- decarbonisation --- climate neutrality --- industrial energy saving --- strategic decision making --- net-zero --- road mapping --- energy efficiency --- ideal mix --- sustainability strategy --- energy efficiency index --- n/a --- multi-regional input-output