The Search for Organic Growth

Edward D. Hess is Adjunct Professor of Organization and Management, Executive Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Corporate Growth, and Executive Director of the Values-Based Leadership Institute at the Goizueta Business School at Emory University. Robert K. Kazanjian is Professor of Organization and Management at the Goizueta Business School, Emory University.

• 1. The challenge of organic growth Robert Kazanjian, Edward Hess and Robert Drazin; 2. Profitable growth at Siemens Medical Solutions Eric Reinhart; 3. UPS: Brown's organic growth Edward D. Hess; 4. Execution: making growth happen at the home depot Tom Taylor; 5. SYSCO: how SYSCO achieved 34 years of continued growth Edward D. Hess; 6. Strategic position, organic growth, and financial performance William F. Joyce; 7. Defining and measuring organic growth Edward D. Hess; 8. The make or buy growth decision: strategic entrepreneurship versus acquisitions Michael Hitt, R. Duane Ireland and Christopher S. Tuggle; 9. The misunderstood role of the middle manager in driving successful growth programs Rita McGrath; 10. Organic growth through internal corporate ventures Philip Anderson; 11. Linking customer management efforts to growth and profitability Doug Bowman and Das Narayandas; 12. Harnessing knowledge resources for increasing returns: scalable structuration at Infosys Technologies Raghu Garud, Arun Kumaraswamy and V. Sambamurthy; 13. Stay tuned: knowledge brokering via inter-firm collaboration in satellite radio Chad Navis and Mary Ann Glynn; 14. New directions for the study of organizational group Robert Drazin and Robert Kazanjian.

'Given intense price pressure, commoditization and other forms of value erosion that all businesses face today, the search for organic growth is now the primary concern of most managers. This book provides successful answers and great frameworks for solving your growth challenge.' Richard D'Aveni, Professor of Strategic Management, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College