Strategic Management: Creating Competitive Advantages, First Edition

Your Competitive Advantage for Strategic Management

Rising to the top in any business involves getting others to recognize your value. This is your competitive advantage. In the business of strategic management, your first lesson in gaining a competitive advantage is choosing the right textbook.

Strategic Management: Creating Competitive Advantages helps you rise to the top more quickly and more securely, climbing the ladder of success rung by rung, and avoiding missteps on your way up.

Organized around the traditional sequence of topics and concepts in strategy, the Canadian Edition of Strategic Management: Creating Competitive Advantages focuses on contemporary topics in intellectual capital, entrepreneurship, globalization, and ethics, giving each step equal consideration. With a schematic chapter map and chapter objectives designed to keep you oriented, and real-life examples and cases developed to give you a view of how strategic management is done rightly (and wrongly!) in Canadian and world business, this Canadian Edition is your guide to climbing the ladder to success.

Theodore Peridis is the Chair of the Policy and Strategic Management Area at the Schulich School of Business, York University, where he is also the Director of the Strategy Field Studies and the Global Leadership programs. His research and teaching interests lie in the areas of strategic management and strategic alliances, as well as mergers and acquisitions with emphasis on the role of knowledge, learning, and communication across cultures. Theo received his Ph.D from New York University and has taught in Europe, North America, South America, the Middle East, and Asia. Theo has received many academic and teaching awards and recognitions for his work: He was recently named Schulich’s "Best in Class" by Canadian Business magazine and "Professor of the Year" for the Kellogg-Schulich Executive MBA program.