Paul Dobson is Professor of Retail Strategy and Industrial Organization at Loughborough University Business School. Ken Starkey is Professor of Srategic Management and Organizational Analysis at the University of Nottingham Business School. John Richards is Special Professor in charge of the MBA programmes at the University of Nottingham Business School.

"Dobson and Starkey have successfully updated their earlier work to provide a well written, comprehensive and authoritative book. The book contains a number of intersting case studies as well as chapter vignettes which provide a broad range of contexts within which the concepts and frameworks are discussed. The breadth of coverage is a distinct asset ensuring not only that all types of organisation are discussed, but also that the ideas presented can be viewed through a variety of lenses." David Ash, De Montfort University

• 1. What Is Strategic Management. 2. Situational Analysis: The Firm & Its Environment.3. Strategic Choice.4. The Resource-Based View Of The Firm.5. Organization & Strategy.6. The Management Of Strategic Change.7. Present & Future Issues In Strategic Management.

Paul Dobson is Professor of Retail Strategy and Industrial Organization at Loughborough University Business School. Ken Starkey is Professor of Srategic Management and Organizational Analysis at the University of Nottingham Business School. John Richards is Special Professor in charge of the MBA programmes at the University of Nottingham Business School.

"Dobson and Starkey have successfully updated their earlier work to provide a well written, comprehensive and authoritative book. The book contains a number of intersting case studies as well as chapter vignettes which provide a broad range of contexts within which the concepts and frameworks are discussed. The breadth of coverage is a distinct asset ensuring not only that all types of organisation are discussed, but also that the ideas presented can be viewed through a variety of lenses." David Ash, De Montfort University

• 1. What Is Strategic Management. 2. Situational Analysis: The Firm & Its Environment.3. Strategic Choice.4. The Resource-Based View Of The Firm.5. Organization & Strategy.6. The Management Of Strategic Change.7. Present & Future Issues In Strategic Management.

Paul Dobson is Professor of Retail Strategy and Industrial Organization at Loughborough University Business School. Ken Starkey is Professor of Srategic Management and Organizational Analysis at the University of Nottingham Business School. John Richards is Special Professor in charge of the MBA programmes at the University of Nottingham Business School.

"Dobson and Starkey have successfully updated their earlier work to provide a well written, comprehensive and authoritative book. The book contains a number of intersting case studies as well as chapter vignettes which provide a broad range of contexts within which the concepts and frameworks are discussed. The breadth of coverage is a distinct asset ensuring not only that all types of organisation are discussed, but also that the ideas presented can be viewed through a variety of lenses." David Ash, De Montfort University

• 1. What Is Strategic Management. 2. Situational Analysis: The Firm & Its Environment.3. Strategic Choice.4. The Resource-Based View Of The Firm.5. Organization & Strategy.6. The Management Of Strategic Change.7. Present & Future Issues In Strategic Management.