Strategy as Action presents an action plan for how firms can build, improve, and defend their competitive advantage at every stage of their life cycle. For start-up firms entering a market, it provides a model for exploiting competitive uncertainty and blind spots; for growth firms who have established some market advantages, it provides an action plan for exploiting relative resources; for mature firms, it explains how to exploit market position; finally, for firms that have no decisive resource advantage, it provides an action plan based on firm co-operative reactions.

Strategy As Action: Competitive Dynamics and Competitive Advantage (Strategic Management)

Business & Money

Grimm, Curtis M.

Lee, Hun

Smith, Ken G.

Management & Leadership

Oxford University Press

Based on ten years of research of actual competition, this cutting-edge text helps students evaluate a firms capabilities and adopt specific action strategies that lead to success. This brief one-color text is appropriate for MBA strategy courses or as a supplement to various upper-division managerial texts. This text is part of the Wests Strategic Management Series edited by Michael A. Hitt, R. Duane Ireland, and Robert E. Hoskisson, authors of Strategic Management: Competitiveness and Globalization, 2nd.

Strategy for Action: Industry Rivalry and Coordination (Southwestern's Strategic Management Series)

South-Western College Pub.

This book focuses on the actions and reactions of companies as they interact with one another and strive for advantage. Using actual data and case studies from the highly competitive airline, high technology, insurance and banking industries, the authors develop an original communication-information model which provides an effective method to explain, measure and even predict the ways in which firms compete in the marketplace. The theoretical contributions presented are backed up by a wealth of data, case studies, examples and illustrations.

Dynamics of Competitive Strategy

Gannon, Martin J.

Sage Publications, Inc.

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