Competing for Advantage

by Robert E. Hoskisson, Michael A. Hitt, R. Duane Ireland

Discover what it takes to create a sustainable competitive advantage in management and business today with this straightforward, powerful strategic management resources. COMPETING FOR ADVANTAGE, 2E focuses specifically on the issues most important to today's current or future practitioner. The book details the processes and tools you need to better understand and effectively contribute to your organization's strategic management process. Applied examples illustrate the latest thinking, practices, and research in strategic management today with in-depth discussions that examine critical topics such as strategic leadership and corporate governance. Access to relevant cases, a focus on the emerging issues such as ethics, and an emphasis on technology throughout prepare you for success in the fast-paced, ever-changing global economy in which today's firms compete.

448 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2003

Reviews

[Greg · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a pretty good book to use as a textbook for a capstone course in an MBA program. It is an overview of all the previous core courses in any AACSB accredited MBA program. It is a summary and does not go into depth. It is slightly outdated containing only information prior to the 2007 Great Recession and the European Debt Crisis of 2010. The one weakness is that the most important new piece of stuff not covered in the core curriculum is real option analysis, yet the book does not do an effective job of going into the mathematics of it; the appendix on the topic is incomplete.

The great advantage of the book is that it is short, under 400 pages. This is greatly appreciated since a capstone course is going to have a massive case load and potentially an operating plan to prepare as part of the course that have enough reading for the students as it is.

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Competing for Advantage