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Corporate Strategy: A Resource Based Approach

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Corporate Strategy, A Resource-Based Approach, is just that. This book gives the reader, and more importantly, the user, either corporate managers, small business owners or business students, the tools needed to make the strategic decisions necessary to plan for future growth. The resources used for the book are from Harvard and Yale Business Schools, as well as other great institutions throughout the world. The authors documented the tacit knowledge from the most successful global business executives and strategic planners, and composed the ideas into this short, straightforward, easy to read book. The best information gained from this book is the discussion on decisions regarding a company's Resources, Strategic Business Units, and Structure, Systems and Processes. These core components are linked to a company's Vision, Goals and Objectives. From this structured foundation, the book discusses how to form a Coherent firm with Competitive Advantage, while maintaining the proper Control throughout the organization. This book teaches the essential areas necessary to develop future corporate executives, and the decisions needed to sustain a business into the next century.

This text book is a very good guide for undergraduate level student for corporate strategy. However, it does not provide fruitful thought for doctoral student, like me.

This text is a brief overview of Corporate Strategy--more useful to someone who already knows the subject and needs a book to brush up on the material and "pull it all together." Concepts are not elaborated very well, forcing you to read passages twice. I also felt that sentences weren't structured in a very readable manner.

A helpfull book for understanding the basic approach of corporate level atrategy and comprehensive undeerstanding about resource based approach in strategic management.

Although the analysis doesn't covered enough a competitive environment in emerging market such as Indonesia (I am an Indonesians), this book still represent an approach to the wildest world of competition, especially to the poeple who always deal with a decision in corporate level strategy.