Foundations in Strategic Management
Its brevity and clarity are the advantages. The old style strategic management texts with several hundred pages of narrative and several hundred more pages of cases are stifling to this generation of students. I use this text and/or similar short texts because I have a good chance of getting the students to actually read it. This text does a good job putting the basics of strategy in an abbreviated number of pages."The text is concise, well-integrated, and covers most of the crucial literature in our field. Moreover, it is based on the foundation of the three most well-informed theories of our field: the industry-based view, the resource-based view, and the stakeholder view of the firm.