Strategic Management: Creating Competitive Advantages with OLC w/ Powerweb Card - Softcover

Dess, Gregory; Lumpkin, G.T. (Tom); Taylor, Marilyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072952423 ISBN 13: 9780072952421

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2004

Synopsis

Strategic Management: Creating Competitive Advantages, 2nd Edition, by Dess, Lumpkin, and Taylor, responds to the demands of today’s rapidly changing and unpredictable global marketplace that students will face when they enter the business world. The concepts-only text provides students with a timely, rigorous, and relevant book written in an engaging manner to spur their interest and excitement. This book provides 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 (approximately six per chapter) bring key concepts to life. Instructors can create their own case volumes for use with Strategic Management 2nd Edition from a variety of source - preselected case packets, customizing from a recommended set which have been carefully mapped to the chapter concepts, or from the entire Primis database which features cases from Harvard, Darden, INSEAD, Ivey, and other reputable sources.

About this title

About the Authors

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, organizationenvironment 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.

G. T. (Tom) Lumpkin is the Chris J. Witting Chair and Professor of Entrepreneurship at Syracuse University in New York. Prior to joining the faculty at Syracuse, Tom was the Kent Hance Regents Endowed Chair and Professor of Entrepreneurship at Texas Tech University. His research interests include entrepreneurial orientation, opportunity recognition, strategy-making processes, social entrepreneurship, and innovative forms of organizing work. He has published numerous research articles in journals such as Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Business Venturing, and Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice. He is a member of the editorial review boards of Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, and the Journal of Business Venturing. He received his PhD in management from the University of Texas at Arlington and MBA from the University of Southern California.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0072952423
• ISBN 13: 9780072952421
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2