Strategic Management: Creating Competitive Advantages

by Gregory G. Dess, G.T. Lumpkin, Alan B. Eisner

This concepts only text provides students with timely, rigourous, and relevant content in an engaging style to spur their interest and excitement in the course. Dess covers all of the traditional topics, plus hot topics like entrepreneurship, knowledge management, e-commerce and internet strategies, in addition to a brand new chapter on Industry Change and Competitive Dynamics. Supporting the core concepts are numerous applications from Canadian business practice bringing the content to life. The third Canadian edition of Strategic Creating Competitive Advantages helps students learn to make the right decisions and analyze business decisions in a modern environment. 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. Designed to accompany Beamish, Cases in Strategic Management, instructors will find a useful matrix inside the front cover, cross referencing Dess chapters to Beamish cases.

Genres: Textbooks, Business

576 pages, Paperback

First published December 4, 2002

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

[Σταμάτης Καρασαββίδης · Rating 4 out of 5]

had to read it for university and it helped alot. Very well researched, easy to understand, containing a great many important case studies and analyseis of different business strategies.

[Keith Bryan · Rating 3 out of 5]

This text really is a capstone for the various branches of management. It succinctly pulls together information and solid examples to highlight various strategies and facts about the complex and daunting world of strategic management. Most students cringe at the idea of purchasing a textbook that potentially holds redundant information or outdated facts, but this book managed to avoid the majority of useless repetitions as well as obscure or outdated statistics. It was actually helpful and decently interesting at times.

Overall: Stop cringing. This book is actually worth most of the money you're paying for it if you give it the chance. Also, try renting from Chegg instead of buying it. That helps.

[Andrey · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was boring to read, but good material.

[Fakerifablack]

Currently reading this text. So far I am only 25% in, but there is a wealth of information for new strategic thinkers in any industry.