Strategic Management: Creating Competitive Advantages, Second CDN Edition

by Gregory G. Dess

Your Competitive Advantage for Strategic The second Canadian edition of Strategic Creating Competitive Advantages helps students learn to make the right decisions and analyze business decisions in a modern environment.

Organized around the traditional sequence of topics and concepts in strategy, Dess focuses on contemporary topics in intellectual capital, entrepreneurship, globalization, and ethics, giving each step equal consideration. A schematic chapter map and chapter objectives keep students oriented, and real life examples and cases give students a view of how strategic management is done right (and wrong) in Canada and throughout the world.

Genres: Business, Textbooks, School

448 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1995

About the author

Is the Andrew R. Cecil Endowed Chair in Management at the University of Texas at Dallas. His primary research interests are in strategic management, organization–environment relationships, and knowledge management. He has published numerous articles on these subjects in both academic and practitioneroriented journals. He also serves on the editorial boards of a wide range of practitioner-oriented and academic journals. In August 2000, he was inducted into the Academy of Management Journal ’s Hall of Fame as one of its charter members. Professor Dess has conducted executive programs in the United States, Europe, Africa, Hong Kong, and Australia. During 1994 he was a Fulbright Scholar in Oporto, Portugal. In 2009, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Bern (Switzerland). He received his PhD in Business Administration from the University of Washington (Seattle) and a BIE degree from Georgia Tech.

Reviews

[Tania · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a great text. It is filled with case studies, not only in that section but peppered throughout the text. Each chapter tackles a range of topics and explains things in a way that allows the reader to be able to apply the knowledge and techniques to real world situations. In the case study section, every case provided background for the company and the issues it faced. I felt the text was very comprehensive and easy to follow. A good number of questions at the end of each chapter stimulated critical thinking.

[Jeremy · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a good digital book with excellent matching online curriculum and assignments.

[Bri · Rating 1 out of 5]

One of the worst textbooks I've ever been recommended. The structure of the cases, in particular, was incredibly difficult to follow. I gave up on reading the material.

[Joshua · Rating 3 out of 5]

Didn't have to read any of the cases, just the chapters.

[Trent Stockwell · Rating 2 out of 5]

Some good information. Mostly comprehensive of all of the books I've already kept during my undergrad work.
I sold it back.