The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management, Strategic Management [Hardcover]

The new edition of The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management: Strategic Management includes a new preface by the current editor, John McGee. He acknowledges the signal contribution of Derek Channon and outlines the key current trends in the field of strategic management.

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• Fully updated new edition covers over 160 key terms and concepts in strategic management;
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• Contains contributions from more than 55 international contributors;
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• Gives more explicit attention to 'competitive strategy' and 'competitive advantage';
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• Fully treats the 'resource-based view', with recent developments around the 'knowledge- based view';
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• Introduces the 'new economy', specifically economics of knowledge and information and the nature of network externalities;
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• Outlines the key current trends in the field of strategic management in the editor’s preface.

Preface to the First Edition.

Preface to the Second Edition.

How to Use This Book.

Acknowledgments.

About the Editors.

List of Contributors.

Dictionary Entries A-Z.

Index.

John McGee is Associate Dean for the MBA Programme and Professor of Strategic Management at Warwick Business School. He has been Director of the Centre for Corporate Strategy and Change and Chair of the Marketing and Strategic Management group. He was previously at Templeton College, Oxford whlc+