Strategic Management and Competitive Advantage: Concepts and Cases, Global Edition

PART I: THE TOOLS OF STRATEGIC ANALYSIS

1. What is Strategy and the Strategic Management Process? 

2. Evaluating a Firm’s External Environment 

3. Evaluating a Firm’s Internal Capabilities 

 

END-OF-PART I: CASES PC 1—1

 

PART II: BUSINESS-LEVEL STRATEGIES

4. Cost Leadership 

5. Product Differentiation 

6. Flexibility and Real Options 

7. Collusion 

 

END-OF-PART II: CASES PC 2—1

 

PART III: CORPORATE STRATEGIES

8. Vertical Integration 

9. Corporate Diversification 

10. Organizing to Implement Corporate Diversification 

11. Strategic Alliances 

12. Mergers and Acquisitions 

 

END-OF-PART III:  PC 3—1

Appendix: Analyzing Cases and Preparing for Class Discussions 

Glossary 

Company Index 

Name Index 

Subject Index 

Jay Barney is currently a Presidential Professor of Strategic Management and holds the Lassonde Chair in Social Entrepreneurship at the Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah. He received his undergraduate degree from Brigham Young University, and his master’s and PhD degrees from Yale University. Previously, he served on the faculties at the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA, the Mays School of Business at Texas A&M University, and as the Chase Chair for Excellence in Strategic Management at the Fisher College of Business at the Ohio State University. He has also served as a visiting scholar at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France and as a visiting professor at the Said Business School at Oxford University, United Kingdom.

Most of Professor Barney’s research focuses on how firms can gain and sustain competitive advantages. He has published over 100 articles in a variety of outlets, including the Harvard Business Review, the Sloan Management Review, the Strategic Management Journal, the Academy of Management Review , the Academy of Management Journal, and has published six books, including a novel titled What I Didn’t Learn at Business School: How Strategy Works in the Real World (with Trish Gorman). He has published some of the most widely cited papers in the field of strategic management.

Professor Barney has won several awards for his research and writing, including the Irwin Outstanding Educator Award for the Business Policy and Strategy Division of the Academy of Management, the Scholarly Contributions Award for the Academy of Management, and three honorary doctoral degrees -- from Lund University (Sweden), the Copenhagen Business School (Denmark), and Universidad Pontifica Comillas (Spain). He has also been elected to the Academy of Management Fellows and the Strategic Management Society Fellows and has won teaching awards at UCLA, Texas A&M, and Ohio State.