Strategic Management: Creating Competitive Advantage with Online Learning Center access card

STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT: Creating Competitive Advantages, 3/e, by Dess, Lumpkin, and Eisner, 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 3rd Edition from a variety of source- pre-selected 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.

Table of Contents:
Part One: Strategic AnalysisChapter 1 Strategic Management: Creating Competitive AdvantagesChapter 2 Analyzing the External Environment of the FirmChapter 3 Assessing the Internal Environment of the FirmChapter 4 Recognizing a Firm’s Intellectual Assets: Moving beyond a Firm’s Tangible ResourcesPart Two: Strategic FormulationChapter 5 Business-Level Strategy: Creating and Sustaining Competitive AdvantagesChapter 6 Corporate-Level Strategy: Creating Value through DiversificationChapter 7 International Strategy: Creating Value in Global MarketsChapter 8 Digital Business Strategy: Leveraging Capabilities in a Disruptive EnvironmentPart Three: Strategic ImplementationChapter 9 Strategic Control and Corporate GovernanceChapter 10 Creating Effective Organizational DesignsChapter 11 Strategic Leadership: Creating a Learning Organization and an Ethical OrganizationChapter 12 Managing Innovation and Fostering Corporate EntrepreneurshipChapter 13 Recognizing Opportunities and Creating New VenturesPart Four: Case AnalysisChapter 14 Analyzing Strategic Management Cases

About the Author :
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. Alan B. Eisner is Professor of Management and Department Chair, Management and Management Science Department, at the Lubin School of Business, Pace University. He received his PhD in management from the Stern School of Business, New York University. His primary research interests are in strategic management, technology management, organizational learning, and managerial decision making. He has published research articles and cases in journals such as Advances in Strategic Management, International Journal of Electronic Commerce, International Journal of Technology Management, American Business Review, Journal of Behavioral and Applied Management, and Journal of the International Academy for Case Studies. He is the former Associate Editor of the Case Associations peer reviewed journal, The CASE Journal.