Strategic Management: Building and Sustaining Competitive Advantage

by Robert A. Pitts and David Lei

This strategic management text focuses on building, extending, organizing and sustaining competitive advantage. Within the context of its advantage-driven focus, five key themes are addressed and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0324006993
• ISBN13: 9780324006995
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: South Western Educational Publishing
• Length: 494 Pages
• Weight: 2.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.0" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

Strategic Management (2nd Edition) by Pitts & Lei

Pitts & Lei's (revised) 2nd edition is a solid, well-written strategic management textbook. Topical coverage is both traditional and well informed. The only exception to the foregoing is Chapter 11 that seems to be slightly "muddy" and confusing. From my perspective, as an instructor who has taught strategic management for the last fifteen years and actually practiced strategic management for fifteen years in industry, the only "missing element" is a chapter on "network" or virtual organizations. Chapter 12 (Managing Strategic Change) and Chapter 13 (Redefining Advantage) are excellent, both in terms of content and exposition. The book includes cases (suitable for classroom discussion) and review questions in each chapter. Each chapter also has an excellent set of references. The ancillaries are complete with the exception that no test bank is provided for an instructor's use. I recommend this text to anyone teaching undergraduate strategic management and also to any reader interested in learning what strategic management is all about.This book compares quite favorably to several of the much more expensive strategy texts like David, Thompson and Strickland and Pearce and Robinson. The book is good value for the money.