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Essentials of Strategic Management: The Quest for Competitive Advantage Paperback – 16 March 2012

by John Gamble (Author), Arthur Thompson Jr. (Author), Margaret Peteraf (Author)
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Essentials of Strategic Management responds head-on to the growing requests by business faculty for a concisely-written strategic management text that’s robust and theory-driven and supported with a compelling collection of cases. This text was written with four objectives in mind:
1) Although relatively brief in length, the text provides students with an up-to-date and thorough understanding of essential strategic management concepts and analytic tools;
2) It simplifies the task of demonstrating student learning through course embedded assessment;
3) The concepts are supported by contemporary, well-written cases involving headline strategic issues; and lastly,
4) The text serves as the theoretical foundation of a teaching approach incorporating a business strategy simulation.
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  1. Print length
    560 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    McGraw-Hill Professional
  4. Publication date
    16 March 2012
  5. Dimensions
    20.32 x 1.91 x 25.4 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    0078029287
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0078029288
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About the Author

John E. Gamble is currently Associate Dean and Professor of Management in the Mitchell College of Business at the University of South Alabama. His teaching specialty at USA is strategic management and he also conducts a course in strategic management in Germany, which is sponsored by the University of Applied Sciences in Worms. Dr. Gamble's research interests center on strategic issues in entrepreneurial, health care, and manufacturing settings. His work has been published in various scholarly journals and he is the author or co-author of more than 50 case studies published in an assortment of strategic management and strategic marketing texts. He has done consulting on industry and market analysis for clients in a diverse mix of industries. Professor Gamble received his Ph.D. in management from the University of Alabama in 1995. Dr. Gamble also has a Bachelor of Science degree and a Master of Arts degree from the University of Alabama.

Thompsons teaching experience includes 25+ years at the University of Alabama, and 3 years at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He earned a BS in Liberal Arts and a PhD in Economics from the University of Tennessee. He is a member of the American Economic Association, the Academy of Management, and the Southern Management Association. He has also served on the editorial boards of a number of journals, including the Journal of Economics and Finance, the Journal of Management, the Journal of Management Case Studies, and the Journal of Management Issues.

Margaret A. Peteraf is the Leon E. Williams Professor of Management at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. She is an internationally recognized scholar of strategic management, with a long list of publications in top management journals. She has earned myriad honors and prizes for her contributions, including the 1999 Strategic Management Society Best Paper Award recognizing the deep influence of her work on the field of Strategic Management. Professor Peteraf is a fellow of the Strategy Management Society and the Academy of Management. She served previously as a member of the Board of Governors of both the Society and the Academy of Management and as Chair of the Business Policy and Strategy Division of the Academy. She has also served in various editorial roles on numerous editorial boards, including the Strategic Management Journal, the Academy of Management Review, and Organization Science. She has taught in Executive Education programs in various programs around the world and has won teaching awards at the MBA and Executive level.Professor Peteraf earned her Ph.D., M.A., and M.Phil. at Yale University and held previous faculty appointments at Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management and at the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ McGraw-Hill Professional; 3rd edition (16 March 2012)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 560 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0078029287
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0078029288
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 20.32 x 1.91 x 25.4 cm
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Steviekun
5.0 out of 5 stars Reference book
Reviewed in the United States on 2 July 2019
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This book was for my capstone management class. The chapters are easy to read the topics are incredibly useful, i will be using it for reference outside of class.
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Oswaldo Contreras
4.0 out of 5 stars Libro electronico genial, la aplicacion Kindle falló
Reviewed in Mexico on 27 December 2015
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El Libro llego inmediatamente de manera electronica, mas nunca lo pude ver en mi computadora, solo en mi tableta. Me marcaba un error que nunca pude descifrar. La entrega se dió sin ningun problema en mi tableta.
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Laura
4.0 out of 5 stars Works great for class and insight for business!
Reviewed in Canada on 7 February 2014
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The chapters' concepts align nicely with the case studies provided in the text.

Learning is always more valuable when it is interesting!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Fast delivery
Reviewed in the United States on 7 February 2020
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I used this for my college classes. It was exactly what I needed
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Jas
2.0 out of 5 stars A good, general textbook for first year business students
Reviewed in Canada on 12 March 2017
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A good, general textbook for first year business students. Several good business cases demonstrate the value of prescriptive strategies and performance management tools.
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