Gaining and Sustaining Competitive Advantage

by Jay B. Barney

This book is designed to show readers how to put theory into practice. A full range of the most recent work in strategic management and related disciplines provides readers with recent research from the Strategic Management Journal, the Academy of Management Review, the Academy of Management Journal, the Academy of Management Executive, and the Rand Journal of Economics. Updated discussion on international strategies equips readers with discussion of the challenges that are unique to pursuing corporate strategies in an international context. For professionals in the fields of strategic planning, marketing research or consulting.

Genres: Business

600 pages, Hardcover

First published August 27, 2013

About the author

Professor Barney's research focuses on the relationship between firm resources and capabilities and sustained competitive advantage. He has published over 100 articles and eight books. He has been on the editorial boards at the Academy of Management Review and the Strategic Management Journal, has been Associate Editor at the Journal of Management, senior editor at Organization Science, Co-Editor at the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, and served as the editor-in-chief of the leading theory journal in the field of management, the Academy of Management Review.

He has been elected as a Fellow of both the Academy of Management and the Strategic Management Society and has won the Irwin Outstanding Educator Award, the Academy of Management Scholarly Contributions Award, the Eccles School of Management outstanding research award, the Penrose Award for Pathbreaking Management, the CK Prahalad Scholar-Practitioner Award, the Foundational Paper Award, the John Fayerweather Eminent Scholar Award, and the Distinguished Scholarship Award.

Reviews

[Hanin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cost and benefit analysis for public sector company

[Vijay Chengappa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Part of the B-School textbook series, this book underlies some important Org Dev frameworks but is pretty dry and devoid of fluidity.

[Lukman Hakim]

Gaining and Sustaining Competitive Advantage

[Dan Gambetta · Rating 2 out of 5]

A mind-numbing book on big-picture biz strategy. Terribly written but choke full of details that are somewhat out of date.