Strategic Management: Building and Sustaining Competitive Advantage

Do you know how to get the competitive advantage? STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT: BUILDING AND SUSTAINING COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE shows you in detail how the world's top companies build, extend, and sustain a competitive advantage. How do they do it? Through distinctive competence, quality, globalization, change, and ethics. And because this business textbook is rich with study tools, STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT: BUILDING AND SUSTAINING COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE gives you the competitive advantage on the test as well!

Pitts (Gettysburg College) and Lei (Southern Methodist University) have added a new chapter on corporate governance to this fourth edition of a text for a core class taught as part of the strategic management of business policy component for business majors. This edition is built around six overarching strategic competencies. Twenty-five new boxes on strategic competency in action highlight how a particular firm implements an approach to a given competency. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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For use in business management courses, this textbook takes a competitive advantage perspective towards the material. Topics include the strategic management process, assessing industry attractiveness, firm capabilities, Leveraging resources, global strategy, strategic alliances, cooperation and autonomy, and building learning organizations. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Robert A. Pitts is professor of Strategic and International Management at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania since 1986, Robert Pitts has authored a wide range of successful strategy texts, articles, and case studies during his 27 years of teaching. His teaching and research focus also includes the field of corporate finance. Prior to Gettysburg, he taught for 13 years in the management department at Penn State University. Pitts has been a visiting professor at the Sasin Graduate Institute in Bangkok, Thailand and IMEDE Management Institute in Lausanne, Switzerland, among others. Before entering academia, he worked in industry as an Investment Analyst for Prudential, a Plant Manager in Thailand, and as a US Peace Corps volunteer. Pitts holds degrees from Harvard (DBA), Columbia (MBA), and Yale (BA).

David Lei received his PhD at Columbia University in Marketing/Management of Organizations and is now an Associate Professor of Business Policy at Southern Methodist University. His area of expertise is in Strategic Alliances, Corporate Strategy, Manufacturing Technology, and Global Communication. Lei's current research interests are investment technology and strategic alliances, he also consults with various companies in financial services and technology-intensive firms. Professor Lei has written numerous journal articles and served as an ad-hoc reviewer for several academic journals.