Edited by Julian Birkinshaw, Professor and Chair of Strategic and International Management, London Business School, UK

'This is a first-class collection of important articles on strategy by a "Who's Who" of leading thinkers in the field. The accessibility and insights of the selected pieces make this well organized two-volume collection an absolutely indispensable resource for any scholar or practitioner who wants to understand the field of strategy in a fast-changing world.'

• Contents:Volume IAcknowledgementsIntroduction Julian BirkinshawPART ICOMPETITIVE STRATEGY 1. R.E. Caves and M.E. Porter (1977), ‘From Entry Barriers to Mobility Barriers: Conjectural Decisions and Contrived Deterrence to New Competition’2. Michael E. Porter (1981), ‘The Contributions of Industrial Organization To Strategic Management’3. Michael E. Porter (1979), ‘How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy’4. Michael E. Porter (1996), ‘What is Strategy?’5. Richard E. Caves and Pankaj Ghemawat (1992), ‘Identifying Mobility Barriers’6. Alan I. Murray (1988), ‘A Contingency View of Porter’s “Generic Strategies”’7. Karel Cool and Ingemar Dierickx (1993), ‘Rivalry, Strategic Groups and Firm Profitability’8. John McGee and Howard Thomas (1986), ‘Strategic Groups: Theory, Research and Taxonomy’9. Carl Shapiro (1989), ‘The Theory of Business Strategy’10. Garth Saloner (1991), ‘Modeling, Game Theory, and Strategic Management’11. Avinash Dixit (1980), ‘The Role of Investment in Entry-Deterrence’12. Marvin B. Lieberman and David B. Montgomery (1988), ‘First-Mover Advantages’PART IITHE RESOURCE-BASED VIEW 13. Richard P. Rumelt (1991), ‘How Much Does Industry Matter?’14. Birger Wernerfelt (1984), ‘A Resource-based View of the Firm’15. S.A. Lippman and R.P. Rumelt (1982), ‘Uncertain Imitability: An Analysis of Interfirm Differences in Efficiency under Competition’16. Ingemar Dierickx and Karel Cool (1989), ‘Asset Stock Accumulation and Sustainability of Competitive Advantage’17. Jay B. Barney (1986), ‘Strategic Factor Markets: Expectations, Luck, and Business Strategy’18. Jay Barney (1991), ‘Firm Resources and Sustained Competitive Advantage’19. Raphael Amit and Paul J.H. Schoemaker (1993), ‘Strategic Assets and Organizational Rent’20. Margaret A. Peteraf (1993), ‘The Cornerstones of Competitive Advantage: A Resource-based View’21. C.K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel (1990), ‘The Core Competence of the Corporation’22. George Stalk, Philip Evans and Lawrence E. Shulman (1992), ‘Competing on Capabilities: The New Rules of Corporate Strategy’23. David J. Teece, Gary Pisano and Amy Shuen (1997), ‘Dynamic Capabilities and Strategic Management’PART IIICORPORATE STRATEGY 24. Benjamin Klein, Robert G. Crawford and Armen A. Alchian (1978), ‘Vertical Integration, Appropriable Rents, and the Competitive Contracting Process’25. Kirk Monteverde and David J. Teece (1982), ‘Supplier Switching Costs and Vertical Integration in the Automobile Industry’26. David J. Teece (1982), ‘Towards an Economic Theory of the Multiproduct Firm’27. Richard P. Rumelt (1982), ‘Diversification Strategy and Profitability’28. Cynthia A. Montgomery (1994), ‘Corporate Diversification’29. Constantinos Markides and Peter J. Williamson (1994), ‘Related Diversification, Core Competences and Corporate Performance’30. Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. (1991), ‘The Functions of the HQ Unit in the Multibusiness Firm’31. David J. Collis and Cynthia A. Montgomery (1998), ’Creating Corporate Advantage’32. Michael Goold and Andrew Campbell (1998), ’Desperately Seeking Synergy’33. Andrew Campbell, Michael Goold and Marcus Alexander (1995), ‘Corporate Strategy: The Quest for Parenting Advantage’Name IndexVolume II AcknowledgementsAn introduction by the editor to both volumes appears in Volume IPART ITHE STRATEGY PROCESS 1. Robert A. Burgelman (1983), ‘A Model of the Interaction of Strategic Behavior, Corporate Context, and the Concept of Strategy’2. James Brian Quinn (1978), ‘Strategic Change: “Logical Incrementalism”’3. Richard T. Pascale (1984), ‘Perspectives on Strategy: The Real Story Behind Honda’s Success’4. Henry Mintzberg and James A. Waters (1985), ‘Of Strategies, Deliberate and Emergent’5. Sumantra Ghoshal and Christopher A. Bartlett (1994), ‘Linking Organizational Context and Managerial Action: The Dimensions of Quality of Management’6. William Ocasio (1997), ‘Towards an Attention-based View of the Firm’PART IIINNOVATION, ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND RENEWAL 7. W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne (1997), ‘Value Innovation: The Strategic Logic of High Growth’8. Constantinos Markides (1997), ‘Strategic Innovation’9. Clayton M. Christensen and Joseph L. Bower (1996), ‘Customer Power, Strategic Investment, and the Failure of Leading Firms’10. Gary Hamel (1999), ‘Bringing Silicon Valley Inside’11. Wesley M. Cohen and Daniel A. Levinthal (1990), ‘Absorptive Capacity: A New Perspective on Learning and Innovation’12. Dorothy Leonard-Barton (1992), ‘Core Capabilities and Core Rigidities: A Paradox in Managing New Product Development’13. Michael L. Tushman and Phillip Anderson (1986), ‘Technological Discontinuities and Organizational Environments’14. Rebecca M. Henderson and Kim B. Clark (1990), ‘Architectural Innovation: The Reconfiguration of Existing Product Technologies and the Failure of Established Firms’15. James G. March (1991), ‘Exploration and Exploitation in Organizational Learning’16. Elaine Romanelli and Michael L. Tushman (1994), ‘Organizational Transformation as Punctuated Equilibrium: An Empirical Test’17. C.K. Prahalad and Richard A. Bettis (1986), ‘The Dominant Logic: A New Linkage Between Diversity and Performance’18. Larry E. Greiner (1972), ‘Evolution and Revolution as Organizations Grow’19. Bruce Kogut and Udo Zander (1992), ‘Knowledge of the Firm, Combinative Capabilities, and the Replication of Technology’PART IIIGLOBAL STRATEGY 20. Raymond Vernon (1966), ‘International Investment and International Trade in the Product Cycle’21. Raymond Vernon (1979), ‘The Product Cycle Hypothesis in a New International Environment’22. John H. Dunning (1980), ‘Toward an Eclectic Theory of International Production: Some Empirical Tests’23. David J. Teece (1981), ‘The Multinational Enterprise: Market Failure and Market Power Considerations’24. Michael E. Porter (1986), ‘Changing Patterns of International Competition’25. George S. Yip (1989), ‘Global Strategy… In a World of Nations?’26. Christopher A. Bartlett and Sumantra Ghoshal (1987), ‘Managing across Borders: New Strategic Requirements’27. Sumantra Ghoshal (1987), ‘Global Strategy: An Organizing Framework’28. Julian Birkinshaw, Allen Morrison and John Hulland (1995), ‘Structural and Competitive Determinants of a Global Integration Strategy’Name Index