Strategic Management: Creating Competitive Advantages: 2026 Release ISE

12. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-265-98303-1
Verlag: Open University Press

Buch, Englisch, Gewicht: 844 g

Strategic Management, written by authors Dess, McNamara, Eisner, and Sauerwald continues its tradition of being readable, relevant, and rigorous. Its engaging writing style minimizes jargon to maximize readability. It provides examples from management practice and societal themes including environmental sustainability, ethics, globalization, entrepreneurship, data analytics, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to make the content relevant. It draws on the latest research by management scholars and insights from executives to balance accessibility with rigor. They provide separate chapters on the role of intellectual assets in value creation (Ch. 4), entrepreneurial strategy and competitive dynamics (Ch. 8), and fostering entrepreneurship in established organizations (Ch. 12). This version includes all the text and 38 cases.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dess, Gregory

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART 1: STRATEGIC ANALYSIS1. Strategic Management: Creating Competitive Advantages2. Analyzing the External Environment of the Firm3. Assessing the Internal Environment of the Firm4. Recognizing a Firm’s Intellectual Assets: Moving beyond a Firm’s Tangible ResourcesPART 2: STRATEGIC FORMULATION5. Business-Level Strategy: Creating and Sustaining Competitive Advantages6. Corporate-Level Strategy: Creating Value through Diversification7. International Strategy: Creating Value in Global Markets8. Entrepreneurial Strategy and Competitive DynamicsPART 3: STRATEGIC IMPLEMENTATION9. Strategic Control and Corporate Governance10. Creating Effective Organizational Designs11. Strategic Leadership: Creating a Learning Organization and an Ethical Organization12. Managing Innovation and Fostering Corporate EntrepreneurshipPART 4: CASE ANALYSIS13. Analyzing Strategic Management Cases

Über Autor(innen)

Dess, Gregory
Gregory G. Dess 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 practitioner-oriented 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 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.