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Strategy, Control and Competitive Advantage

Author : Erik Jannesson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642391346
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (423 download)

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Download or read book Strategy, Control and Competitive Advantage written by Erik Jannesson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-10-25 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How should firms’ control systems be designed and used to formulate and implement strategies that will contribute to competitive advantage and sustained high performance? This book offers some thought-provoking suggestions. It contains empirical studies of such diverse manufacturing enterprises as Atlas Copco, Electrolux, Saab, Scania, SCA Packing and Volvo, as well as an insurance company and two chamber orchestras. All firms and organizations presented offer interesting and exciting insights, each in a specific way and each with a fascinating history. The book presents research on the relationship between strategy, control and competitive advantage over extended periods and at several strategic levels, while also taking into account the existence of multiple control systems in a single firm or other organization. Readers are offered an in-depth look into how changes in the environment lead to adjustments in strategies and control systems. It is shown, in addition, how difficult and challenging it can be to implement these changes, and why such efforts are not always successful. But perhaps most importantly, the book conveys an in-depth understanding of how strategies and control systems affect competitive advantage and performance. In both its coverage and focus, the book is unique. Not only does it provide valuable contributions to the research field of strategy and management control; it also represents a substantial commitment in terms of resources and involvement over an extended period. The book is highly recommended to researchers, practitioners, graduate students and all others interested in this area.

Competitive Advantage

Author : Cam Caldwell
Publisher : Nova Science Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781536122251
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (222 download)

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Download or read book Competitive Advantage written by Cam Caldwell and published by Nova Science Publishers. This book was released on 2017 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As firms struggle in the modern era to achieve financial success, many recognize that a global economy has made their task more challenging than ever before. Universal access to the latest information and the ability to duplicate technological capabilities make it difficult for firms to sustain previously existing competitive advantages.Business leaders understand that the challenges that they face require a new and much more behavioral approach to managing their companies than has been successful in the past. In this volume, we address the quest for success in a world where innovation and constant change threaten the status quo.Today's successful leaders recognize the importance of creating organizational cultures that build trust, treat employees as valued partners, and provide those employees with the resources to constantly learn.Emphasizing a value-based and behavioral approach to managing employees, many of the chapters of this book address the importance of a strategic approach that is committed to both organizational excellence and the best interests of a company's employees.Nearly eighty years ago, Chester Barnard emphasized that successful organizations both pursue a worthy purpose that benefits society and strive to satisfy the individual needs of its membership. This volume endorses the importance that successful organizations today are committed to values that inspire others, work for the best interests of the global community, and demonstrate a commitment to constant improvement.The theme of this volume is that competitive advantage can best be achieved by leaders and companies that are constantly learning, looking for more effective and efficient ways to assist customers, and those who are dedicated to innovation and the pursuit of excellence.

The End of Competitive Advantage

Author : Rita Gunther McGrath
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
ISBN 13 : 1422191419
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (221 download)

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Download or read book The End of Competitive Advantage written by Rita Gunther McGrath and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you at risk of being trapped in an uncompetitive business? Chances are the strategies that worked well for you even a few years ago no longer deliver the results you need. Dramatic changes in business have unearthed a major gap between traditional approaches to strategy and the way the real world works now. In short, strategy is stuck. Most leaders are using frameworks that were designed for a different era of business and based on a single dominant idea—that the purpose of strategy is to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage. Once the premise on which all strategies were built, this idea is increasingly irrelevant. Now, Columbia Business School professor and globally recognized strategy expert Rita Gunther McGrath argues that it’s time to go beyond the very concept of sustainable competitive advantage. Instead, organizations need to forge a new path to winning: capturing opportunities fast, exploiting them decisively, and moving on even before they are exhausted. She shows how to do this with a new set of practices based on the notion of transient competitive advantage. This book serves as a new playbook for strategy, one based on updated assumptions about how the world works, and shows how some of the world’s most successful companies use this method to compete and win today. Filled with compelling examples from “growth outlier” firms such as Fujifilm, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Infosys, Yahoo! Japan, and Atmos Energy, The End of Competitive Advantage is your guide to renewed success and profitable growth in an economy increasingly defined by transient advantage.

Understanding Competitive Advantage

Author : Fredrik Nilsson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9783540408727
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Competitive Advantage written by Fredrik Nilsson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about competitive advantage and how it is created at the company level. Our theoretical starting point is that the alignment of strategies and control systems affects the firm's chances of successfully positioning itself in its chosen area of competition. The firm is in a better position to concentrate on activities that create value for the customer if its strategies and control systems are mutually consistent and adapted to expected external demands. This book is thus a contribution to the literature that treats competitive advantage on the basis of the match between the environment and internal resources. Our ambition has been to provide additional knowledge in the area through a comprehensive discussion on co-ordination and integration of strategies and control systems.

Understanding Competitive Advantage

Author : Fredrik Nilsson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540266992
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Competitive Advantage written by Fredrik Nilsson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-10-14 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about competitive advantage and how it is created at the company level. It is based on the premise that the alignment of strategies and control systems affects the firm`s chances of successfully positioning itself in its chosen arena of competition. The firm is in a better position to concentrate on activities that create value for the customer if its strategies and control systems are mutually consistent and adapted to expected external demands. The authors believe that the co-ordination and integration of strategies and control systems will provide a necessary, and long-overdue, expansion of knowledge in the area.

Strategic Management (color)

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781949373943
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (739 download)

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Download or read book Strategic Management (color) written by and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strategic Management (2020) is a 325-page open educational resource designed as an introduction to the key topics and themes of strategic management. The open textbook is intended for a senior capstone course in an undergraduate business program and suitable for a wide range of undergraduate business students including those majoring in marketing, management, business administration, accounting, finance, real estate, business information technology, and hospitality and tourism. The text presents examples of familiar companies and personalities to illustrate the different strategies used by today's firms and how they go about implementing those strategies. It includes case studies, end of section key takeaways, exercises, and links to external videos, and an end-of-book glossary. The text is ideal for courses which focus on how organizations operate at the strategic level to be successful. Students will learn how to conduct case analyses, measure organizational performance, and conduct external and internal analyses.

Formulation, Implementation, and Control of Competitive Strategy

Author : John A. Pearce
Publisher : McGraw-Hill
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Formulation, Implementation, and Control of Competitive Strategy written by John A. Pearce and published by McGraw-Hill. This book was released on 2009 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text looks at contemporary research in strategic management with an emphasis on conceptual tools and skills created by scholars and practitioners in the field.

Strategic Cost Management

Author : John K. Shank
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0029126517
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (291 download)

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Download or read book Strategic Cost Management written by John K. Shank and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1993 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An indispensable guide for managers concerned with cost, strategy, and business re-engineering. Experts on the strategic use of cost data, the authors show how stategic cost management is revolutionizing accounting practices in leading companies. Includes numerous examples. 120 line drawings.

Strategy As Action

Author : Curtis M. Grimm
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0195161440
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Strategy As Action written by Curtis M. Grimm and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2006 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strategy as Action presents an action plan for how firms can build, improve, and defend their competitive advantage at every stage of their life cycle. For start-up firms entering a market, it provides a model for exploiting competitive uncertainty and blind spots; for growth firms who have established some market advantages, it provides an action plan for exploiting relative resources; for mature firms, it explains how to exploit market position; finally, for firms that have no decisive resource advantage, it provides an action plan based on firm co-operative reactions.

Strategic Management

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781283392822
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Strategic Management written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Competitive Advantage

Author : Michael E. Porter
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416595848
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Competitive Advantage written by Michael E. Porter and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-06-30 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now beyond its eleventh printing and translated into twelve languages, Michael Porter’s The Competitive Advantage of Nations has changed completely our conception of how prosperity is created and sustained in the modern global economy. Porter’s groundbreaking study of international competitiveness has shaped national policy in countries around the world. It has also transformed thinking and action in states, cities, companies, and even entire regions such as Central America. Based on research in ten leading trading nations, The Competitive Advantage of Nations offers the first theory of competitiveness based on the causes of the productivity with which companies compete. Porter shows how traditional comparative advantages such as natural resources and pools of labor have been superseded as sources of prosperity, and how broad macroeconomic accounts of competitiveness are insufficient. The book introduces Porter’s “diamond,” a whole new way to understand the competitive position of a nation (or other locations) in global competition that is now an integral part of international business thinking. Porter's concept of “clusters,” or groups of interconnected firms, suppliers, related industries, and institutions that arise in particular locations, has become a new way for companies and governments to think about economies, assess the competitive advantage of locations, and set public policy. Even before publication of the book, Porter’s theory had guided national reassessments in New Zealand and elsewhere. His ideas and personal involvement have shaped strategy in countries as diverse as the Netherlands, Portugal, Taiwan, Costa Rica, and India, and regions such as Massachusetts, California, and the Basque country. Hundreds of cluster initiatives have flourished throughout the world. In an era of intensifying global competition, this pathbreaking book on the new wealth of nations has become the standard by which all future work must be measured.

Cases in Strategic Management

Author : Sanjay Dhir
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811370648
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book Cases in Strategic Management written by Sanjay Dhir and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how strategic management can be practiced in the context of flexibility. It discusses strategic formulation and implementation perspectives and practices, including vision and mission, general environment analysis, industry analysis, competitive advantage, resource and capability view, generic strategies, business level strategy, corporate level strategy, international strategy, change and turnaround, strategic implementation, and strategic controls, as well as flexibility embedded in these concepts. It can be used as a primary textbook for managerial programs for executives, and as a supplementary case textbook for core MBA courses. Exploring “Strategic Formulation” and “Strategic Implementation” concepts from a flexibility perspective, it is also an excellent companion to leading strategic management textbooks.

Strategic Management

Author : John A. Pearce
Publisher : Irwin/McGraw-Hill
ISBN 13 : 9780072488463
Total Pages : 1008 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (884 download)

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Download or read book Strategic Management written by John A. Pearce and published by Irwin/McGraw-Hill. This book was released on 2003 with total page 1008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary research in strategic management, with an emphasis on conceptual tools and skills created by scholars and practitioners in the field are evident throughout this 11-chapter book. Pearce and Robinson's Strategic Management, retains its high level of academic credibility and its market-leading emphasis on Strategic Practice. It continues to have strong support from longtime adopters and growing support in schools with a desire to provide straightforward treatment of strategic management with a practical, systematic approach. The 8th edition will continue its strategic alliance with Business Week, which will be seen in cases, illustration capsules, and woven into the text. The text and cases will include numerous Business Week short cases and a wide assortment of traditional, longer strategic management cases. Pearce and Robinson will continue to use a unique pedagogical model created by the authors to provide logic and structure to its treatment of strategic management which in turn makes the material more easily organized by the instructor and learned by the student.

Strategic Management and Competitive Advantage

Author : Jay B. Barney
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 : 9780136135203
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Strategic Management and Competitive Advantage written by Jay B. Barney and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For courses in strategy/strategic management. For professors who want students to see connections between big ideas in strategy (thus understanding vs. memorizing), Barney/Hesterly provides an organizing framework (VRIO) as the foundation of the text. Students have a clear decision-making framework to use in analyzing cases and business situations.

Competitive Strategy

Author : Michael E. Porter
Publisher : New York : Free Press ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Competitive Strategy written by Michael E. Porter and published by New York : Free Press ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada. This book was released on 1980 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the comprehensive framework of analytical techniques to help a firm analyze its industry as a whole and predict the industry's future evolution, to understand its competitors and its own position ...

Strategic Management and Competitive Advantage

Author : Jay B. Barney
Publisher : Pearson
ISBN 13 : 9780134741147
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Strategic Management and Competitive Advantage written by Jay B. Barney and published by Pearson. This book was released on 2018-01-08 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For courses in strategy and strategic management. Core strategic management concepts without the excess Strategic Management and Competitive Advantage: Concepts and Cases strips out the unnecessary, by presenting material that answers the question: does this concept help students analyze real business situations? Each chapter has four short sections that cover specific issues in depth, to adapt the text to the students' particular needs. By utilizing this carefully crafted approach, the 6th Edition provides students with the tools they need for strategic analysis. Also available with MyLab Management By combining trusted authors' content with digital tools and a flexible platform, MyLab personalizes the learning experience and improves results for each student. Note: You are purchasing a standalone product; MyLab Management does not come packaged with this content. Students, if interested in purchasing this title with MyLab, ask your instructor to confirm the correct package ISBN and Course ID. Instructors, contact your Pearson representative for more information. If you would like to purchase both the physical text and MyLab Management, search for: 0134890507 / 9780134890500 Strategic Management and Competitive Advantage: Concepts and Cases Plus MyLab Management with Pearson eText -- Access Card Package, 6/e Package consists of: 0134741145 / 9780134741147 Strategic Management and Competitive Advantage: Concepts and Cases 0134744497 / 9780134744490 MyLab Management with Pearson eText -- Access Card -- for Strategic Management and Competitive Advantage: Concepts and Cases

Strategic Operations Management

Author : Robert H. Lowson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113451901X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Strategic Operations Management written by Robert H. Lowson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-08-29 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This indispensable text offers students a high quality treatment of strategic operations management. It provides the reader with a clear understanding of the importance and nature of operations strategy by determining exactly which management activities, core competencies, resources and technologies underpin an operational strategy. The book demonstrates how various operational elements and components can be combined and customised into unique operational strategies. When these strategies are correctly implemented, they provide sustainable competitive advantage and allow firms to provide a diverse range of services and goods in their increasingly demanding, complex and dynamic marketplaces and spaces. Includes chapters covering customising operational strategies for retail, manufacturing, services and SMEs, and sections on eBusiness and complexity theory in relation to operations theory. Features include: *extended case-studies including several from Europe and the USA *case vignettes *learning objectives *key terms *chapter introduction and 'maps' to aid reader accessibility *'time out' boxes to prompt the reader to reflect on what has been learnt *'critical reflection' boxes that analyse theories and models.