Strategic Management: Creating Competitive Advantages

This concepts only text provides students with timely, rigourous, and relevant content in an engaging style to spur their interest and excitement in the course. Dess covers all of the traditional topics, plus hot topics like entrepreneurship, knowledge management, e-commerce and internet strategies, in addition to a brand new chapter on Industry Change and Competitive Dynamics. Supporting the core concepts are numerous applications from Canadian business practice bringing the content to life. The third Canadian edition of Strategic Management: Creating Competitive Advantages helps students learn to make the right decisions and analyze business decisions in a modern environment.

A schematic chapter map and chapter objectives keep students oriented, and real life examples and cases give students a view of how strategic management is done right (and wrong) in Canada and throughout the world.

Designed to accompany Beamish, Cases in Strategic Management, instructors will find a useful matrix inside the front cover, cross referencing Dess chapters to Beamish cases.

G. T. (Tom) Lumpkin is the Chris J. Witting Chair and Professor of Entrepreneurship at Syracuse University in New York. Prior to joining the faculty at Syracuse, Tom was the Kent Hance Regents Endowed Chair and Professor of Entrepreneurship at Texas Tech University. His research interests include entrepreneurial orientation, opportunity recognition, strategy-making processes, social entrepreneurship, and innovative forms of organizing work. He has published numerous research articles in journals such as Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Business Venturing, and Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice. He is a member of the editorial review boards of Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, and the Journal of Business Venturing. He received his PhD in management from the University of Texas at Arlington and MBA from the University of Southern California.

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.

Gregory G. Dess is the Andrew R. Cecil Endowed Chair in Management at the University of Texas at Dallas. His primary research interests are in strategic management, organization–environment relationships, and knowledge management. He has published numerous articles on these subjects in both academic and practitioneroriented journals. He also serves on the editorial boards of a wide range of practitioner-oriented and academic journals. In August 2000, he was inducted into the Academy of Management Journal ’s Hall of Fame as one of its charter members. Professor Dess has conducted executive programs in the United States, Europe, Africa, Hong Kong, and Australia. During 1994 he was a Fulbright Scholar in Oporto, Portugal. In 2009, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Bern (Switzerland). He received his PhD in Business Administration from the University of Washington(Seattle) and a BIE degree from Georgia Tech.

Alan B. Eisner is Professor of Management and Department Chair, Management and Management Science Department, at the Lubin School of Business, Pace University. He received his PhD in management from the Stern School of Business, New York University. His primary research interests are in strategic management, technology management, organizational learning, and managerial decision making. He has published research articles and cases in journals such as Advances in Strategic Management, International Journal of Electronic Commerce, International Journal of Technology Management, American Business Review, Journal of Behavioral and Applied Management, and Journal of the International Academy for Case Studies. He is the former Associate Editor of the Case Association’s peer reviewed journal, The CASE Journal.