Gaining and Sustaining Competitive Advantage

by Jay B. Barney

For courses in Graduate Strategic Management.

Explore the most up-to-date research in the field of strategic management.

Gaining and Sustaining Competitive Advantage provides students and practitioners with the most up-to-date research in a way that helps them see how the concepts can be applied to the real business world. Barney explores the impact of the recent global business changes in relation to the competitive context of firms and their ability to generate and sustain competitive advantages.

The fourth edition has been thoroughly updated to include the latest research in the field.

For courses in Graduate Strategic Management.

Explore the most up-to-date research in the field of strategic management.

Gaining and Sustaining Competitive Advantage provides students and practitioners with the most up-to-date research in a way that helps them see how the concepts can be applied to the real business world. Barney explores the impact of the recent global business changes in relation to the competitive context of firms and their ability to generate and sustain competitive advantages.

The fourth edition has been thoroughly updated to include the latest research in the field.

Genres: Business

512 pages, Paperback

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.