Strategic Management and Competitive Advantage

For courses in strategy and strategic management. Core strategic management concepts without the excess.Just the essentials, Strategic Management and Competitive Advantage strips out excess by only presenting material that answers the question: does this concept help readers analyze real business situations? This carefully crafted approach provides readers with all the tools necessary for strategic analysis.Teaching and Learning Experience This program will provide a better teaching and learning experience—for you and your students. Here’s how: Improve Results with MyManagementLab: MyManagementLab delivers proven results in helping students succeed and provides engaging experiences that personalize learning. Help Students Develop Critical Thinking Skills: Proven pedagogy geared towards ensuring students grasp the concepts. Present Specific Issues in a Flexible Format: Each chapter has four short sections that present specific issues in more depth, allowing the professor and the student to adapt the text to their particular needs. This package contains: 0133127400 / 9780133127409: Strategic Management and Competitive Advantage, 5e0133113000 / 9780133113006 NEW MyManagementLab with Pearson eText Standalone Access Card for Strategic Management and Competitive Advantage, 5eSample questions asked in the 5th edition of Strategic Management and Competitive Advantage:Perform an opportunities analysis on the following industries: (a) The U.S. airline industr (b) The U.S. beer industr (c) The U.S. property and casualty insurance industr (d) The worldwide portable digital media (e.g., flash drives) industr (e) The worldwide small package overnight delivery industryProduct features are often the focus of product differentiation efforts. Yet product features are among the easiest-to-imitate bases of product differentiation and thus among the least likely bases of product differentiation to be a source of sustained competitive advantage. Does this seem paradoxical to you? If no, why not? If yes, how can you resolve this paradox?Agency theory has been criticized for assuming that managers, left on their own, will behave in ways that reduce the wealth of outside equity holders when, in fact, most managers are highly responsible stewards of the assets they control. This alternative view of managers has been called stewardship theory. Do you agree with this criticism of agency theory? Why or why not?Back to topRent Strategic Management and Competitive Advantage 5th edition today, or search our site for other textbooks by Jay B. Barney. Every textbook comes with a 21-day "Any Reason" guarantee. Published by Prentice Hall.