Management policy and strategy : text, readings, and cases / George A. Steiner, John B. Miner, Edmund R. Gray.

Includes indexes.

Text portion issued also separately with minor alterations as: Management policy and strategy / George A. Steiner, John B. Miner, Edmund R. Gray.

Bibliography: p. 1108-1133.

Discussions with many instructors of policy courses, together with an examination of the books used, reveals the development of some significant new trends and needs in policy courses: a focus on top management and the total organization rather than on functional areas; stress on strategic management in contrast with operational management; the use of top management strategy as a new integrating concept of analysis; the introduction into classroom discussion of basic research on the identification, evaluation, and implementation of strategy; expansion of analysis beyond the business sector.