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Strategy and the Business Landscape (2nd Edition) By Pankaj Ghemawat ( Prentice Hall )
Release Date: 2005-07-16
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Product Description
Audience: MBA and Executive MBA strategy courses Approach: Pankaj Ghemawat, in collaboration with Bruno Cassiman, David Collis and Jan Rivkin, has prepared the second edition of an introductory strategy textbook that adopts a value-focused, firm-centered perspective on strategy. The book is meant to be rigorous in its research base, pragmatic in its focus, and concise. The second edition includes new, full-length chapters on competitive dynamics (with Bruno Cassiman) and on corporate strategy (with Jan Rivkin). Competitors: de Kluyver (PH)
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 Nothing good to say, except
the picture on the front cover is very nice. As far as the text goes, you are better off waiting for the movie. This is three or four pages of information drug out into a full book. Yikes.
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 Could be Better ( ladelila )
The text is very heavy on the theory and provides a good background in the subject matter. Less pompous writing style could make it more readable. There are numerous spelling errors and instances of the words confused (tack instead of track, stricture instead of structure). Maybe upcoming editions will be better.
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Really disappointing and useless.
This book is really disappointing. When the it was delivered at home, I thought the box was empty: the book is as thin as a magazine!
The content is very theorical, completely useless for executives.
Maybe OK for students who have no clue at all about what strategy is, but definitely useless for executives.
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 Good Book Overall
This book paints a good landscape of the evolution of strategy management over time. Even though the book has only 6 chapters the material is somewhat dense. I found myself doing a lot of re-reading to understand the details. Its extremely comprehensive though if you have a strong background in strategy and/or are pursuing your MBA and its you last semester.
If you're the average joe blow who's trying the understand the basics of strategy management I'm sure there are easier books out there you may want to read.
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 Excellent Guide
The concepts are well illustrated with tables and charts. Though I find the case studies a bit outdated, the strategies discussed along with it provides a clear picture on how the industry is structured and different management style. The reading is excellent and not fill with nonsense like other textbooks.
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