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AN ANALYSIS OF DAVID J. TEECE'S DYNAMIC CAPABILITES AND STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT

VESELINA STOYANOVA

Dynamic Capabilities and Strategic Management is a pioneering book in business studies, one of the most succinct and in-depth examinations of dynamic capabilities, explaining both their foundations and the strategic implications they hold for both academics and practitioners in the field of business strategy, innovation, entrepreneurship and economics. In contrast to earlier wo...

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AN ANALYSIS OF PANKAJ GHEMAWAT'S DISTANCE STILL MATTERS

ALESSANDRO GIUDICI / MARIANNA ROLBINA

"Distance Still Matters" is an influential Harvard Business Review article. In this work, Ghemawat proposes the CAGE distance framework that allows firms to consider four dimensions of international distance (cultural, administrative, geographic, and economic) when planning global expansion. Then, he demonstrates the usefulness of the framework with a practical case of a compan...

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AN ANALYSIS OF JAMES SUROWIECKI'S THE WISDOM OF CROWDS

NIKKI SPRINGER

In The Wisdom of Crowds, New Yorker columnist, Surowiecki, explores the question of whether the many are better than an elite few – no matter their qualifications – at solving problems, promoting innovation and making wise decisions. Surowiecki’s text uses multiple case studies and touches on the arenas of pop culture, sociology, business management and behavioural economics am...

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AN ANALYSIS OF JACQUES DERRIDA'S STRUCTURE, SIGN, AND PLAY IN THE DISCOURSE OF THE HUMAN SCIENCES

TIM SMITH-LAING

Jacques Derrida’s Structure, Sign, and Play is one of the most controversial and influential philosophical texts of the 20th century. Delivered at a conference on structuralism at Johns Hopkins, the lecture took aim at the critical and philosophical fashions of the time and radically proposing a world in which meaning cannot be pinned down or traced to an origin, but instead is...

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AN ANALYSIS OF ERWIN PANOFSKY'S MEANING IN THE VISUAL ARTS

EMMANOUIL KALKANIS

Erwin Panofsky’s Meaning in the Visual Arts is considered a key work in art history. Its ideas have provoked widespread debate, and although it was first published more than sixty years ago, it continues to feature regularly on numerous university reading lists. Meaning in the Visual Arts comprises nine essays. In these, Panofsky argues for the independence of iconology as a br...

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AN ANALYSIS OF MICHEL FOUCAULT'S WHAT IS AN AUTHOR?

TIM SMITH-LAING

Michel Foucault’s 1969 essay “What is an Author?” sidesteps the stormy arguments surrounding “intentional fallacy” and the “death of the author,” offering an entirely different way of looking at texts. Foucault points out that all texts are written but not all are discussed as having “authors”. So what is special about “authored” texts? And what makes an “author” different to o...

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AN ANALYSIS OF WILLIAM H. WHYTE'S THE ORGANIZATION MAN

NIKKI SPRINGER

William Whyte’s core idea in The Organization Man is that the Protestant Ethic that characterized financial and personal success in American history had been replaced in modern times by the Social Ethic. This stressed the group as the source of creativity and emphasized that the greatest need of the individual is to belong to a group. To investigate this idea, Whyte spent years...

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AN ANALYSIS OF AMARTYA SEN'S INEQUALITY RE-EXAMINED

ELISE KLEIN

Amartya Sen’s Inequality Re-Examined is a seminal text setting out a theory to evaluate social arrangements and inequality. By asking the question, ‘equality of what’?, Sen shows that (in)equality should be assessed as human freedom; for people to have the ability to pursue and achieve goals they value or have reason to value. The text lays out the fundamental ideas to Amartya...

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AN ANALYSIS OF LUCIEN FEBVRE'S THE PROBLEM OF UNBELIEF IN THE 16TH CENTURY

JOSEPH TENDLER

Febvre asked this core question in The Problem of Unbelief: “Could sixteenth-century people hold religious views that were not those of official, Church-sanctioned Christianity, or could they simply not believe at all?” The answer informed a wider debate on modern history, particularly modern French history. Did the religious attitudes of the Enlightenment and the twentieth cen...

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AN ANALYSIS OF IKUJIRO NONAKA'S A DYNAMIC THEORY OF ORGANIZATIONAL KNOWLEDGE CREATION

STOYAN STOYANOV

Ikujiro Nonaka’s A Dynamic Theory of Organisational Knowledge Creation outlines the creation of organisational knowledge through the constant conversion of the two types of knowledge, tacit and explicit, which Nonaka believes has the potential to guide managers’ knowledge creation strategies. This argument is centred on the conviction that companies are not passive parties that...

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AN ANALYSIS OF DANIEL KAHNEMAN'S THINKING, FAST AND SLOW

JACQUELINE ALLAN

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman offers a general audience access to over six decades of insight and expertise from a Nobel Laureate in an accessible and interesting way. Kahneman’s work focuses largely on the problem of how we think, and warns of the dangers of trusting to intuition – which springs from “fast” but broad and emotional thinking – rather than engaging i...

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AN ANALYSIS OF BARUCH SPINOZA'S ETHICS

GARY SLATER / ANDREAS VRAHIMIS

Baruch Spinoza’s Ethics is a dense masterpiece of sustained argumentative reasoning. It earned its place as one of the most important and influential books in Western philosophy by virtue of its uncompromisingly direct arguments about the nature of God, the universe, free will, and human morals. Though it remains one of the densest and most challenging texts in the entire canon...

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AN ANALYSIS OF CHRIS ARGYRIS'S INTEGRATING THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE ORGANIZATION

STOYAN STOYANOV

A critical analysis of Argyris’s Integrating The Individual and the Organization, which forms part of a series of essays and books considering how organisations should be run. The essay explores the lack of congruence between the needs and expectations of individual employees and the organisations that employ them. The impact of the work depends heavily on reasoning skills. Chr...

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AN ANALYSIS OF BURTON G. MALKIEL'S A RANDOM WALK DOWN WALL STREET

NICHOLAS BURTON

Burton Malkiel’s 1973 A Random Walk Down Wall Street was an explosive contribution to debates about how to reap a good return on investing in stocks and shares. Reissued and updated many times since, Malkiel’s text remains an indispensable contribution to the world of investment strategy – one that continues to cause controversy among investment professionals today. At the book...

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AN ANALYSIS OF JEAN LAVE AND ETIENNE WENGER'S SITUATED LEARNING

CHARMI PATEL

Social anthropologist Jean Lave and computer scientist Etienne Wenger’s seminal Situated Learning helped change the fields of cognitive science and pedagogy by approaching learning from a novel angle. Traditionally, theories of learning and education had focused on processes of cognition – the mental processes of knowledge formation that occur within an individual. Lave and Wen...

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AN ANALYSIS OF JOHN BERGER'S WAYS OF SEEING

EMMANOUIL KALKANIS

Ways of Seeing is a key art-historical work that continues to provoke widespread debate. It is comprised of seven different essays, three of which are pictorial and the other containing texts and images. Berger first examines the relationship between seeing and knowing, discussing how our assumptions affect how we see a painting. He moves on to consider the role of women in a...

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AN ANALYSIS OF WALTER BENJAMIN'S THE WORK OF ART IN THE AGE OF MECHANICAL REPRODUCTION

RACHELE DINI

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction combats traditional art criticism’s treatment of artworks as fixed, unchanging mystical objects. For Walter Benjamin, the consequences of addressing a work of art in this manner have a wider resonance: closed off from any active visual or tactile engagement, the work of art becomes an object of passive contemplation and a po...

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AN ANALYSIS OF YASSER TABBAA'S THE TRANSFORMATION OF ISLAMIC ART DURING THE SUNNI REVIVAL

BILAL BADAT

Tabbaa’s Transformation offers an innovative approach to understanding the profound changes undergone by Islamic art and architecture during the often neglected Medieval Islamic period. Examining devices such as calligraphy, arabesque, muqarnas, and stonework, Tabbaa argues we propagated in a moment of confrontation and facilitated the re-emergence of the Sunni Abbasid calipha...

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AN ANALYSIS OF HANNA BATATU'S THE OLD SOCIAL CLASSES AND THE REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENTS OF IRAQ

DALE J. STAHL

How do you solve a problem like understanding Iraq? For Hanna Batatu, the solution to this conundrum lay in generating alternative possibilities that effectively side-stepped the conventional wisdom of the time. Historians had long held that Iraq – like other artificial creations of ex-colonial European powers, who drew lines onto the world map that ignored longstanding tribal,...

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AN ANALYSIS OF RICHARD DAWKINS'S THE SELFISH GENE

NICOLA DAVIS

Richard Dawkins provides excellent examples of his reasoning and interpretation skills in The Selfish Gene. His 1976 book is not a work of original research, but instead a careful explanation of evolution, combined with an argument for a particular interpretation of several aspects of evolution. Since Dawkins is building on other researchers’ work and writing for a general audi...

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AN ANALYSIS OF MAX WEBER'S THE PROTESTANT ETHIC AND THE SPIRIT OF CAPITALISM

SEBASTIAN GUZMAN / JAMES HILL

The German sociologist Max Weber is considered to be one of the founding fathers of sociology, and ranks among the most influential writers of the 20th-century. His most famous book, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, is a masterpiece of sociological analysis whose power is based on the construction of a rigorous, and intricately interlinked, piece of argumentat...

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AN ANALYSIS OF JOHN P. KOTTER'S LEADING CHANGE

YAAMINA SALMAN / NICK BROTEN

John P. Kotter’s Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail is a classic of business literature, and an example of high-level analysis and evaluation. In critical thinking, analysis is all about the sequence and features of arguments. When combined with evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of an argument, it provides the perfect basis for understanding corporate stra...

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AN ANALYSIS OF EMILE DURKHEIM'S ON SUICIDE

ROBERT EASTHOPE

Emile Durkheim’s 1897 On Suicide is widely recognized as one of the foundational classic texts of sociology. It is also one that shows the degree to which strong interpretative skills can often provide the bedrock for high-level analysis. Durkheim's aim was to analyse the nature of suicide in the context of society itself – examining it not just as an individual decision, but o...

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AN ANALYSIS OF MICHEL FOUCAULT'S THE HISTORY OF SEXUALITY

RACHELE DINI / CHIARA BRIGANTI

Michel Foucault is famous as one of the 20th-century’s most innovative and wide-ranging thinkers. The qualities that made him one of the most-read and influential theorists of the modern age find full expression in History of Sexuality, the last project Foucault was able to complete before his death in 1984. Central to Foucault’s appeal is the creativity of his thought. Creati...

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AN ANALYSIS OF FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE'S ON THE GENEALOGY OF MORALITY

DON BERRY

Friedrich Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morality is a sustained feat of incisive interpretation. Well known as one of Nietzsche’s greatest works, and as one of the most important books of nineteenth-century philosophy, On the Genealogy of Morality also provided the inspiration for the methodologies of several key philosophers of the modern age. Michel Foucault and Judith Butl...

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AN ANALYSIS OF JOHN STUART MILL'S ON LIBERTY

ASHLEIGH CAMPI / LINDSAY SCORGIE-PORTER

In his wonderfully clear and cogent essay On Liberty, Mill contends that individuals should be as free as possible from interference by government. Proposing that individual fulfilment is the surest route to collective happiness, he argues passionately against the "tyranny of the majority," and sets out to create an alternative view of a practical politics that sets proper limi...

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AN ANALYSIS OF ARJUN APPADURAI'S MODERNITY AT LARGE

AMY YOUNG EVRARD

Arjun Appadurai’s 1996 collection of essays Modernity At Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization helped reshape how anthropologists, geographers and philosophers saw and understood the key topic of our times: globalization. Globalization has long been recognized as one of the crucial factors shaping the modern world – a force that allows goods, people, money, information an...

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AN ANALYSIS OF C.S. LEWIS'S THE ABOLITION OF MAN

RUTH JACKSON / BRITTANY PHEIFFER NOBLE

C.S. Lewis’s 1943 The Abolition of Man is a set of three essays that encapsulate some of the most important elements of good critical thinking. Lewis considers a weighty topic, moral philosophy – and more precisely how we teach it, and where morality comes from. As critics and enthusiasts for Lewis’s work alike have noted, though, he was not a philosopher as such, but a profess...

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AN ANALYSIS OF STANLEY MILGRAM'S OBEDIENCE TO AUTHORITY

MARK GRIDLEY / WILLIAM J. JENKINS

Stanley Milgram is one of the most influential and widely-cited social psychologists of the twentieth century. Recognized as perhaps the most creative figure in his field, he is famous for crafting social-psychological experiments with an almost artistic sense of creative imagination – casting new light on social phenomena in the process. His 1974 study Obedience to Authority e...

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AN ANALYSIS OF ARISTOTLE'S METAPHYSICS

ASISTE CELKYTE

Aristotle’s Metaphysics is a collection of essays on a wide range of topics, almost certainly never put together by Aristotle himself. This helps to explain why the material covers such a very wide range of material, from meaning to mathematics, from logical sequences to religion. It includes very useful treatments of the nature of axioms (or primary truths) such as the law of ...

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