Fundamentals of Business Strategy (SAGE Library in Business and Management) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1412901065 ISBN 13: 9781412901062

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2008

Synopsis

This collection of selected papers provides a range of fundamental readings in strategic management. The collection covers basic and advanced topics and includes selections from both traditional masters in the field as well as writings by contemporary authors.

Part One: Foundations of Business Strategy: contains the classical foundational texts (from scholars such as Herbert Simon, Alfred Chandler and Alfred Sloan) which helped create the field.

Part Two: Industry Analysis and Competitive Strategy: covers the key texts in the areas of industry analysis and competitive strategy (with contributions by Porter, Nalebuf, Ghemewhat and others).

Part Three: The Resource Competences Based Approach to Strategy: highlights contributions to the resources-based view (including key articles from Richard Rumelt, Jay Barney and others).

Part Four: Dynamic Capabilities Approach: addresses dynamic capability theory (with contributors such as Sidney Winter, Richard Rumelt, David Teece and others), covering areas such as organizational learning, entrepreneurship and future directions for strategic management.

Each volume contains an introduction to the content included. The collection is of great value to scholars, students and practitioners of corporate strategy.

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About the Author

David J. Teece is an economist and an authority on matters of industrial organization, technological change, and innovation, particularly as it relates to antitrust and competition policy and intellectual property. Teece has a PhD in economics from the University of Pennsylvania and has held teaching and research positions at Stanford University and Oxford University. He has received eight honorary doctorates. Teece has over 30 years of experience as an active consultant performing economic, business, and financial consulting services to businesses and governments around the world. He has worked on matters in industries ranging from music recording to DRAMS, software, lumber, and petroleum, and has testified in both federal and state court, before Congress, and before the Federal Trade Commission, as well as in several international jurisdictions.
Expertise and Research Interests are Competitive Performance of Firms in the Global Marketplace, Intellectual Capital Management, Innovation, Intellectual Property, Antitrust Policy, Technology and Intellectual Property, Strategy Management, Corporate Governance, Product and Process Development, Human Capital and Dynamic Capabilities.

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1412901065
• ISBN 13: 9781412901062
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 2296
• Editor: Augier Mie, Treece David J.