Newly published!
Business Strategy for a Better Normal:
Concepts and Cases
“A road map for leaders seeking to empower their followers, organizations, and industries to innovate during unexpected and challenging times in order to maintain competitive advantage. Your book also has inspired me to revisit our mission statement and to rethink our business strategy post pandemic.”
— Amelia Ceja, President & CEO, Ceja Vineyards, Napa, CA
This book examines how leaders can use strategic thinking to transform their followers, organizations, and industries in the wake of societal shocks like COVID-19 that require re-balancing both leadership and business models. It is organized around a new triumvirate of strategic thinking concepts for the better normal, explained in a 3S Model: Style, Situation, and Strategic Orientation. The environment (situation) creates or deters opportunities that are pursued by leaders with the propensity (style) and the potential (strategy) to develop them.
In the face of ongoing crises such as COVID-19, natural disasters, political upheaval, and climate change, the author proposes that the field of strategic management needs to rethink and update traditional frameworks in order to offer business models more applicable in a rapidly changing environment.Addressing topics such as sustainability and diversity, this pivotal text fills a gap in strategic thinking and presents illustrative examples and case studies about organizations grappling with making decisions in a dynamically different “new normal.”
“Strategies for a Better Normal fills a major gap in thinking proactively about the future of businesses and preparing leadership teams to succeed. The topics and the mini-cases are both current and compelling, illustrating the emerging choices that companies will need to make in the second half of the 21st century and providing them the tools to make choices that will optimize the returns to all of their stakeholders.”
—John Elstrott, Chairman (retired) Whole Foods Markets
Contents
1. Strategic Thinking & Core Values
2. Organizational Cultures
3. Scanning the Environment
4. Industry Attractiveness
5. Competing
6. Diversity, Equality, Inclusion, and Diversification
7. Globalization Choices
8. Innovation & The Changing Workplace
9. Governance
“Gilinsky provides a series of innovative, yet no nonsense, journeys through proven business practices, often still involving the need for basic blocking and tackling, focused on lessons in support of achieving true transformation of an organization.”
— Larry Clark, Chancellor, Louisiana State University, Shreveport
Gilinsky, A. (2023). Business Strategy for a Better Normal: Concepts and Cases. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Bartolomé, M-L., Gilinsky A., Martinez-Falcó, J. & Sánchez-Garcia, E. (eds.) (2023). Handbook of Sustainability Challenges across the Wine Industry, Philadelphia, PA: IGI Publishing.
Newly published!
Handbook of Research on Sustainability Challenges in the Wine Industry
by Bartolomé Marco-Lajara, Armand Gilinsky, Javier Martínez-Falcó, Eduardo Sánchez-García
In the wine industry, sustainability is an extremely important issue for two main reasons: Firstly, the industry faces serious threats as a consequence of climate change, as well as water and energy scarcity. Secondly, proper sustainable management of wineries can mean obtaining a competitive advantage by allowing them to increase market share and organizational innovation processes. In this sense, previous work has shown that customers tend to select wines that have been developed following sustainable practices, despite not knowing what this means in practice.
The Handbook of Research on Sustainability Challenges in the Wine Industry serves as a guide for study, reflection, and critique to understand sustainability in the wine industry in its triple aspect (economic, social, and environmental). The book sheds light on the new trends and challenges of the wine industry, making it a must-read for academicians and managers who want to deepen their knowledge of the wine industry as well as its link with sustainability. Covering key topics such as wine tourism, green innovation, and consumer behavior, this major reference work is ideal for industry professionals, business owners, managers, entrepreneurs, researchers, scholars, academicians, practitioners, instructors, and students.
The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:
- Business Environments
- Circular Economy
- Consumer Behavior
- Green innovation
- Supply Chain Management
- Sustainability
- Wine
- Wine Business
- Wine Marketing
- Wine Tourism
Gilinsky, A. (2023). Business Strategy for a Better Normal: Concepts and Cases. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Social Sustainability in the Global Wine Industry: Concepts and Cases
Edited by Sharon L. Forbes, Tracy-Anne De Silva, Armand Gilinsky
Unlike most research that focuses on environmental sustainability in the wine industry, this book examines the social aspect of sustainability in the industry. The first book to offer a global perspective of social sustainability in the wine industry. Presents case studies, literature reviews, and empirical studies.
Forbes, S. L., DaSilva, T-A, & Gilinsky, A. (eds.) (2020). Social Sustainability in the Global Wine Industry: Concepts and cases. London: Palgrave/Macmillan.
Crafting Sustainable Wine Businesses:
Concepts and Cases
Edited by Armand Gilinsky
Sustainable wine businesses are being crafted around the world, leaving the land in better shape for the next generation. In this book, four case studies reveal that sustainability in the wine industry it is tied tightly to long-term profitability.
Gilinsky, A. (ed.) (2015), Crafting Sustainable Wine Businesses: Concepts and cases. London: Palgrave/Macmillan.