Crafting And Executing Strategy: The Quest For Competitive Advantage [Import] [Paperback]

Arthur A. Jr.; Strickland, A. J.; Gamble, John E. Thompson (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 1056 pages
• Publisher: Irwin/McGraw-Hill; 14th Ed edition (2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071112200
• ISBN-13: 978-0071112208
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 8 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (39 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,921,404 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Informative business guide to strategy, August 22, 2006

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J. H. Martin (Ypsilanti, MI United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Crafting and Executing Strategy : The Quest for Competitive Advantage - Concepts and Cases (Strategic Management: Concepts and Cases) (Hardcover)

I bought this book for a college class and kept it. While it is not the most exciting book, the case studies are an excellent guide to a wide range of business plans and strategies. The cases are divided into four categories: single business companies, diversified companies, implementing and executing strategy and ethics & social responsibility. The cases are very complete and interesting. The downside is the shelf life of the book - I would expect a new edition before long.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great case studies, October 28, 2007

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T. Ingolfsson (Mt Dora, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Crafting and Executing Strategy: The Quest for Competitive Advantage: Concepts and Cases (Hardcover)

If you have gone through business school, most of the information provided here are fairly generic. But what I love about this book is the numerous examples and case studies that it offers from Krispy Kreme to FedEx to McDonalds. Its analysis is right on the money and it teaches you how to modify your own strategies and operations.

18 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Student Review, December 9, 2005

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W. Kelley (Durham, NC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Crafting and Executing Strategy : The Quest for Competitive Advantage - Concepts and Cases (Strategic Management: Concepts and Cases) (Hardcover)

I am a student majoring in Business Administration who recently used this text in an upper-level management course. The book's writing is utterly superfluous. Boredom was frequently my sentiment as I weeded through unnecessarily labyrinthine sentences. The ideas in the book were occasionally interesting, but were usually ideas I had already developed on my own via simple intuition. Perhaps the most valuable part of the text is the section of case studies. This closing segment of the book contains many great ideas for student projects. Overall, this text disappoints me as a student