Strategic Management: Value Creation, Sustainability, and Performance

STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT: VALUE CREATION SUSTAINABILITY PERFORMANCE, First Edition, provides an innovative and effective new approach to the study of strategic management. This groundbreaking text emphasizes growth-oriented businesses and highly competitive environments, applying traditional principles and frameworks to the dynamic business climate today's students will experience as working professionals. Using value creation, sustainability, and performance as integrating mechanisms, the text enables a broad discussion of stakeholders and organizational goals, as well as in-depth exploration of the value chain framework. Masterfully balancing fundamental business theory and practical, real-life applications--presented through vignettes, exercises, and simulations--the authors employ a lively and engaging writing style that will appeal to students and instructors alike.

Dr. Charles E. Bamford is the Dennis Thompson Chair of Entrepreneurial Leadership at Queens University of Charlotte. He earned his B.S. degree at the University of Virginia, an M.B.A. at Virginia Tech, and a Ph.D. in Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the University of Tennessee. During a twelve-year span prior to pursuing his Ph.D., he held positions managing Business Analysis (Mergers and Acquisitions, Dispositions, and Small Business Consulting) for Dominion Bankshares Corporation (now Wells Fargo Corporation). His business career also included stints as Director of Corporate Training, Systems Analyst, COBOL programmer, and full-time instructor at Virginia Western Community College in the early 1980s. Dr. Bamford has taught courses in Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship at the undergraduate, graduate, and executive levels at universities in Scotland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic. Prior to joining Queens University, he held positions as an Associate Professor at Texas Christian University and at the University of Richmond. Dr. Bamford has won 14 teaching excellence awards during his career, including six Executive MBA Teacher of the Year Awards, and is a Noble Foundation Fellow in Teaching Excellence. In addition to authoring a best-selling business textbook, Dr. Bamford has published research in the Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Business Strategies, Journal of Technology Transfer, and Journal of Small Business Management.

Dr. Page West is Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship and the BB&T Fellow in Capitalism and Free Markets at Wake Forest University. He earned his B.A. in Economics at Hamilton College, an M.B.A. at The Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College, and a Ph.D. in Strategic Management at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Prior to earning his Ph.D., Dr. West held positions in marketing and new business development for 17 years at consumer packaged goods companies including General Mills and Celestial Seasonings, and he consulted with Westinghouse and other technology companies. He also launched his own food manufacturing company, raised venture capital, and expanded the business to a national level. At Wake Forest, Dr. West has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in Strategic Management, Entrepreneurship, International Entrepreneurship, Capitalism and Free Markets, and Shakespeare on Management. He has also taught management in London, and he is a regular visiting faculty member at the École de Management in Bordeaux, France. Dr. West has won awards for innovative teaching three times and was recently named the most influential professor by Wake Forest business school alumni. His research focuses on top management teams and the evolution of strategy in new ventures, and he has published articles in the Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Technology Transfer, Journal of Small Business Management, and International Journal of Organizational Analysis.