Many strategies fail not because they are improperly formulated but because they are poorly implemented. The Oxford Handbook of Strategy Implementation examines the crucial role of implementation in how business and managerial strategies produce returns. In this wide-ranging collection of essays, leading scholars address governance, resources, human capital, and accounting-based control systems, advancing our understanding of strategy implementation and identifying opportunities for future research on this important process.

The imperative for strategy implementation / Michael A. Hitt, Susan E. Jackson, Salvador Carmona, Leonard Bierman, Christina E. Shalley and Mike Wright -- Resources and governance -- Sourcing external knowledge : clusters, alliances, and acquisitions / Stephen Tallman and Anupama Phene -- A study of the long-term value of capabilities-based resources, intangible strategic assets, and firm performance / Brian R. Chabowski and G. Tomas M. Hult -- Ipos and corporate governance / Igor Filatotchev, Mike Wright and Garry D. Bruton -- Epistemics at work : the theory of mind in principal-agent relations / Stefan Linder, Nicolai Foss and Diago Stea -- Social construction of boundaries in the context of the official and unofficial economies / Katalin Takacs-Haynes and R. Duane Ireland -- Antitrust compliance / D. Daniel Sokol -- Managing human capital -- The aging workforce : implications for human resource management research and practice / Donald M. Truxillo, David M. Cadiz, and Jennifer R. Rineer -- Women at the top : will more women in senior roles impact organizational performance? / Carol T. Kulik and Isabel Metz -- Managing human capital : meta-analysis of links among human resource management practices and systems, human capital and performance / David J. Ketchen Jr., T. Russell Crook, Samuel Y. Todd, James G. Combs, and David J. Woehr -- Exploring the relationship between human resource management and organizational performance in the healthcare sector / Ian Kessler -- Evidence-based management at the bottom of the pyramid : why human resources standards and research must connect more closely / Wayne F. Cascio and John W. Boudreau -- Theory development by induction : goal-setting theory, 1990 to 2013 / Edwin A. Locke and Gary P. Latham -- Accounting-based control systems -- Management control systems and creativity / Antonio Davila and Angelo Ditillo -- Exploring the challenges of broadening accounting reports : insights from research / Brad Potter and Naomi Soderstrom -- Organizational design and control choices / Christian Hofmann and Laurence van Lent -- Estimation of discretionary accruals and the detection of earnings management / Paul Zarowin -- The future of strategy implementation / Michael A. Hitt, Susan E. Jackson, Salvador Carmona, Leonard Bierman, Christina E. Shalley and Mike Wright.