Christopher Williams is a Professor in the Strategy, Entrepreneurship and International Business Department at ESSCA School of Management in Paris. He previously worked in other business schools in the UK, Canada, France, and the Netherlands. His research interests include international strategy, innovation in international firms and contexts, health R&D and organisational resilience. Before entering academia in 2007, Dr Williams spent two decades in industry, mostly in innovative and international environments, including 10 years with IMS Health. His research appears in journals such as Research Policy, Journal of World Business, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, International Business Review, Journal of Business Research, and Journal of International Management. He has also published a range of teaching cases on strategy and innovative issues in international contexts and is author of Venturing in International Firms: Contexts and Cases in a High-Tech World (2018), Management Consultancy for Innovation (2019), and Organizing for Resilience (with J. You) (2021).
List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; 1. Introduction; Part I:
Preparing for a Strategic Business Case Analysis, 2. Choosing a Case to
Analyse, 3. Placing the Case in Strategic Context, 4. Deciding on the
Questions for Analysis; Part II: Conducting a Strategic Business Case
Analysis, 5. The Case Analysis Spectrum, 6. Approaches and Tools along the
Case Analysis Spectrum, 7. Worked Examples of Strategic Business Case
Analysis; Part III: Maximizing Impact from a Strategic Business Case
Analysis, 8. Externalizing the Impact of a Strategic Business Case
Analysis, 9. Internalizing the Impact of a Strategic Business Case
Analysis, 10. Summary; References
