Formulation Implementation, and Control of Competitive Strategy [With Access Code for Business Week Subscription]

by John A. Pearce II, Richard B. Robinson

Contemporary research in strategic management, with an emphasis on conceptual tools and skills created by scholars and practitioners in the field are evident throughout this 11-chapter book. Pearce and Robinson’s Formulation, Implementation and Control, 8e, retains its high level of academic credibility and its market-leading emphasis on Strategic Practice. The material presented here is the text material that can be found in Strategic Management, 8e. It continues to have strong support from longtime adopters and growing support in schools with a desire to provide straightforward treatment of strategic management with a practical, systematic approach. Pearce and Robinson will continue to use a unique pedagogical model created by the authors to provide logic and structure to its treatment of strategic management which in turn makes the material more easily organized by the instructor and learned by the student.

456 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1982

Reviews

[Tommy Powell · Rating 3 out of 5]

An excellent read for getting one's thought-juices flowing. Pearce & Robinson put forward a very comprehensive model and theories to back it up. There are also the ubiquitous case studies, which of course prove that the model is accurate.

However... for a book with a very good index, as well as a name index, where are the citations? Yes, they cite a few articles for their case studies and occasionally provide a cite for another book, there are no real footnotes and no citation index at the back of the book. For a "venerated 10th edition" textbook this omission is quite telling.

What is that old snark... "The French follow no one, and no one follows the French!"