Strategic Management: Creating Competitive Advantage - Softcover

Dess, Gregory G.; Lumpkin, Tom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071151060 ISBN 13: 9780071151061

Publisher: McGraw Hill Higher Education, 2002

Synopsis

A guide to strategic management. It seeks to respond to the demands of today's rapidly changing and unpredictable marketplace that students will face when they enter the business world. The concepts-only text is designed to engage students and provide a solid treatment of traditional topics in strategic management, as well as contemporary topics such as entrepreneurship, knowledge management, and e-commerce and Internet strategies. Numerous applications from business practice plus sidebars (about six in each chapter) illustrate key concepts, and chapter-opening vignettes offer examples of what can go wrong.

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Unique flexibility and convenience not found anywhere else in the strategic management market for selecting cases to match course concepts. Recommended cases, selected by Marilyn Taylor (University of Missouri at Kansas City) to match the chapters and concepts in the text, are readily available from Primis/Pinnacle. Options include ordering pre-selected case packets, customizing case packets from Taylor's recommended list, or selecting from the entire Primis/Pinnacle collection, making the Dess/Lumpkin project a most appealing option whether they want a concepts-only, text and cases, or anything in between.
The traditional organizing framework includes crisply-written chapters that address contemporary topics. Strategic Management is divided into chapters in the traditional sequence: analysis, formulation, and implementation. In addition, there are three additional chapters on analyzing intellectual capital/knowledge management; e-commerce and Internet strategies; and corporate entrepreneurship and new venture management. Instructors who favor a traditional approach and those who demand comprehensive coverage of contemporary topical areas respond well to the Dess/Lumpkin text.
Current important research is emphasized in every chapter. The resource-based view of the firm is given significant coverage in chapters 3 and 5.
Chapter-opening vignettes provide insightful, real-world examples of what can go wrong and spur student curiosity and interest in learning and applying the course concepts. Most texts err on the side of admiring good business practices in their chapter openers when students need to be able to diagnose problems and look for solutions in the real business world.
Students who take a strategic management course need a thorough grounding in ethics, globalization and technology. In response to this, Dess and Lumpkin thoroughly weave these themes into every chapter of the text, as part of the text flow and within the 'Strategy Spotlight' boxes that appear in every chapter.
The text features an extensive use of sidebars (approximately six per chapter). These sidebars, known as 'Strategy Spotlights,' provide relevant, interesting illustrations of real managerial practices and reinforce student interest and learning. Many of them underscore the key text themes of ethics, globalization, and technology.
Many key text concepts are applied to start-up firms and smaller businesses, which is particularly important and relevant given the fact that many students will begin their professional careers in just these kinds of smaller firms.
Strategic Management by Dess/Lumpkin features the best chapter teaching notes available today! While many books outline or summarize the text materials, Dess/Lumpkin focus on 'value added' materials. Each chapter includes many suggested questions to spur in-class discussion. In addition, there are many examples and 'war stories' to provide illustrations of key concepts'well beyond the material in the text. This freshens the delivery of material to the student and reduces preparation time for the instructor.
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Authors Dess and Lumpkin wrote their own Instructor's Manual which features the best chapter teaching notes available today! While many books outline or summarize the text materials, Dess/Lumpkin focus on 'value added' materials. Each chapter includes many suggested questions to spur in-class discussion. In addition, there are many examples and 'war stories' to provide illustrations of key concepts. In addition to detailed lecture notes, the following are the components available in the manual: a variety of options for selecting cases; Test Bank; Video Guide; and Transparency Masters
Greg Dess holds an endowed chair at the University of Kentucky. Well known in the Academy of Management and Strategic Management Society, he has taught and consulted around the globe, most recently as a visiting Professor at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business and, beginning in March, at the University of Hong Kong.

Tom Lumpkin teaches at the University of Illinois/Chicago. His research interests in intellectual capital, entrepreneurship, and e-business bring interesting and unique content to the book.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw Hill Higher Education
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0071151060
• ISBN 13: 9780071151061
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 544