Lowe, David J. creator author aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut text bibliography enk 2025 monographic eng 1 online resource (211 pages) "Commercial acumen is a critical skill that underpins the realisation of successful and high value trading relationships. This concise textbook provides knowledge of the principles of strategic commercial management together with a framework for critically understanding commercial practice within and between organisations. It also examines relevant commercial management best practice and aids the development of the intellectual skills to communicate the rationale behind the strategic commercial decisions made by organisations. Across each chapter, it presents practical and transferable skills for designing, negotiating, awarding and managing B2B transactions. Strategic Commercial Management provides a practical and concise introduction for executive education students currently studying for MSc and MBA apprenticeship programmes, as well as supplementary reading for postgraduate students studying Strategic and Commercial Management"-- Provided by publisher. 1. Making commercial management strategic: Commercial acumen, commercial affinity and commercial management – How ‘commercial’ adds value to an organisation -- 2. Foundations of commercial relationships: Transaction cost economics, relational contracting, power and trust -- 3. Identifying, allocating and managing risk and value: Risk and value management methodologies and techniques to inform commercially focused decision-making -- 4. Exchange governance: Contracts and legal, regulatory and governance issues -- 5. Commercially driven decision-making: A framework approach to support opportunity and investment decision-making -- 6. Influencing partner behaviour: Grounding successful commercial outcomes and trading relationships on the effective ethical application of persuasion, influence and negotiation -- 7. Applying rigorous and consistent commercial processes and procedures: Developing high-performing commercial management processes; implementing best-practice at the individual, team and organisational level -- 8. Realising value at the commercial interface: Identifying/defining, acquiring (capturing)/creating and exploiting/delivering value throughout an exchange's lifecycle -- Index. David Lowe. Includes bibliographical references and index. Strategic planning Study and teaching Management Study and teaching HD30.28 .L694 2025 658.4/012076 Lowe, David J. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2025 (DLC) 2025001773 9781003052159 2025001774 https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/pucpr-ebooks/detail.action?docID=32024026 https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/pucpr-ebooks/detail.action?docID=32024026 DLC 250203 20260514135054.0 24239995 eng