Essentials of Strategic Management (Third Edition)

Author: Harrison (USA), St. John (USA)
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Publish Date: 2005-10-01
Features: This book concisely and clearly discusses core and hot issues in the field of strategic management. It not only features a light and lively writing style but is also brief and to the point, covering all major strategic management topics. It includes both modern and classical theories, distills the views of representative scholars in the field, and organically compiles current disagreements, perspectives, and examples. The book delves into traditional strategic management process models, resource-based strategic management models, in-depth discussions on resource-based theories, interorganizational stakeholder relationships, ethics and business strategy, transaction cost theory, agency theory, restructuring, global competition, strategic alliances, and other issues. Additionally, topics such as e-commerce and the new economy are woven throughout the book's examples, concepts, assumptions, and inferences.