Developing Strategies for Competitive Advantage

ISBN-13: 9780080435749 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 304 str.

Patrick B. McNamee

Opis

Hardbound. This selection of papers from Long Range Planning-The International Journal of Strategic Management examines the evolution of competitive advantage over the past decade, setting out areas of major change and areas which have been less subject to change. It begins by examining how strategic management has been influenced by the transformation of industries and the changes in the rules for success, and the dramatic rise in the strategic importance of information technology. In many industries the established rules of the game no longer apply, and their continued use will most likely lead to failure, even for firms which appear to have unassailable positions of strength. It is not that strategic planning has failed, but rather that in a previous era of greater certainty and clearer boundaries, the unquestioning application of established strategic rules often worked. In the new era of competitive uncertainty and uncertain boundaries, many