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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
June 2012
Print publication year:
2009
Online ISBN:
9780511626524
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511626524
Subjects:
Strategic Management, Management
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Book description

Strategic decisions deal with the long-term direction of the firm and its main activities, usually the responsibility of the top managers in an organization. Because the firm is the critical unit of analysis in strategy, we need to define what firms are, how they create value, and what their organizational boundaries are in order to understand their overall performance. However, this must be done in a manner that is most useful for strategic analysis and decision making. In other words, we need a theory of the firm for business strategy. Theory of the Firm for Strategic Management integrates and expands key existing theories, like transaction costs economics and the resource-based view, to develop a value-based theory of the firm. This provides a framework to show how firms can create value for customers and, at the same time, capture economic profits for their owners through business, corporate, international, and social strategies.

Reviews

'This book provides the most comprehensive synthesis of the different theoretical approaches to the topic of strategy. I agree entirely with Professor Becerra's view that the most useful way to think about any company is in terms of an entity whose twin goals are: first, to create value and, second, to appropriate a fair share of this value for its own shareholders. I recommend this book as the first thing that any Ph.D. student in strategy should read before tackling the details of the strategy literature in the doctoral seminars. From now on, it will be required reading in my own Ph.D. seminars.'

Anil K. Gupta - Ralph J. Tyser Professor of Strategy & Organization, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland

'This is a fantastic book that will fill a major gap in the strategy literature. It provides a thorough review of prior theory and research concerned with the economic basis of strategic management. Management scholars and practitioners alike will find this to be a landmark publication that enhances our understanding of strategic decisions.'

Luis Gómez-Mejía - Council of 100 Distinguished Scholar and Regents Professor at the W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University

'An excellent and very timely book. In times of strategic turbulence the importance of sound theoretical grounding is accentuated. A must read for any serious student of strategy.'

Øystein D. Fjeldstad - Professor and Telenor Chair of International Strategy and Management, BI-Norwegian School of Management

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Contents

Contents
References
Further reading
References
Introduction
Andrews, (1971). The Concept of Corporate Strategy. Highly influential early book in strategic management that stresses the fit between internal resources and external opportunities. It develops a well-rounded picture of the strategic responsibilities of leaders and the entire process of strategy analysis, formulation, and implementation, including the values and social responsibilities of firms and top managers.
Rumelt, , Schendel, , and Teece, (1994). Fundamental Issues in Strategy. This collection of articles discusses some of the main topics in the field of strategic management from very different perspectives. Rather than providing a balanced overview of state-of-the-art theories in the early nineties, the book describes some of the most influential ideas, including an interesting debate about the relationship between game theory and strategic management.
Hitt, , Freeman, , and Harrison, (2001). The Blackwell Handbook of Strategic Management. Quite a comprehensive, edited volume that reviews some of the main topics in the strategic management field. A good insight into state-of-the-art research strategies at the turn of the century.
Early influential books in strategy include: Barnard (1938). The Functions of the Executive; Selznick (1957). Leadership in Administration; Chandler (1962). Strategy and Structure; Ansoff (1965). Corporate Strategy; Miles and Snow (1978). Organizational Strategy, Structure, and Process; and Schendel and Hofer (1979). Strategic Management.
Simon, (1957). Administrative Behavior; March and Simon (1967). Organizations; and Cyert and March (1963). A Behavioral Theory of the Firm. These books develop an analysis of the firm from a decision-making approach and they discuss human behavior inside organizations through concepts like bounded rationality, attention, information processing, rewards, conflict, dominant coalitions, and organizational control. Classic books in organization theory.
Morgan, (2006). Images of Organization. Comprehensive review of different conceptualizations of the firm in organization theory through metaphors, such as organizations as machines, organisms, brains, or political systems.
The contracting view of the firm
Mahoney, (2005). Economic Foundations of Strategy. Useful review of the main economic approaches discussed in this chapter, including the resource-based view (RBV) and dynamic capabilities.
Williamson, (1975). Markets and Hierarchies; and Williamson, (1985). The Economic Institutions of Capitalism. Oliver Williamson covers in these two books the main ideas of his approach to transaction costs economics (TCE). The books are an essential contribution to the understanding of firms from a contracting perspective.
Hart, (1995). Firm Contracts, and Financial Structure. A key book for a formal property rights approach (incomplete contracting) to the theory of the firm, applied particularly to issues of corporate finance.
Putterman, and Kroszner, (1996). The Economic Nature of the Firm. A selection of classical readings in economics about the theory of the firm, from Smith and Knight to Coase, Williamson, Hart, Demsetz, Teece, and others.
Scherer, and Ross, (1990). Industrial Market Structure and Economic Performance. This classical textbook in industrial organization reviews the main ideas and the accumulated empirical research based on the structure-conduct-performance model. Though this book does not cover the theory of the firm, it is still highly recommended for strategy students.
Tirole, (1988). The Theory of Industrial Organization. A main textbook for the new industrial organization. The emphasis is on theory development through game theoretic analysis, including questions addressed by the theory of the firm.
The nature of the firm in strategy
Penrose, (1959). The Theory of the Growth of the Firm. Seminal analysis of the growth of the firm from an economic perspective that has inspired the resource-based view of the firm. The conceptualization of the firm as a collection of resources and its process of growth is analyzed in detail.
Barney, (1997). Gaining and Sustaining Competitive Advantage. A graduate-level textbook in strategic management entirely developed from a RBV.
Nelson, and Winter, (1982). An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change. A highly influential book on the evolutionary analysis to organizations, including the critical role of organizational routines. Essential to understand economics as an evolutionary process.
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Creating economic value
Schumpeter, (1934). The Theory of Economic Development. A classical book from the influential Austrian economist, particularly insightful in his analysis of the entrepreneurial process of creative destruction.
Porter, (1985). Competitive Advantage. In this book Porter further expands his influential ideas about business and corporate strategy. In particular, he proposes the use of value chain analysis to build cost leadership or differentiation.
Copeland, , Koller, , and Murrin, (1990). Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies. Traditional financial approach to measuring firm value. Useful manual for financial valuation.
Holbrook, (1999). Consumer Value. Interesting edited volume of different sources of consumer value from a marketing perspective. Much closer to psychology than to economics or strategy.
The appropriation of value by firms
Knight, (1921). Risk, Uncertainty and Profit. Traditional analysis of profits and the firm before transaction costs were introduced to economics by Coase, based primarily on entrepreneurial risk and uncertainty.
Obrinsky, (1983). Profit Theory and Capitalism. Excellent review of profit theory in economics from the classical authors to Marxist, Knightian, and Keynesian approaches. Particularly focused on macroeconomic implications and why it is so difficult for economic models to explain profits adequately.
Mueller, (1986). Profits in the Long Run. Influential empirical analysis of sustained firm profits and the possible explanations why they persist in the long run.
Geroski, , Gilbert, , and Jacquemin, (1990). Barriers to Entry and Strategic Competition. Review of the formal theoretical literature in economics on mobility barriers, conditions of entry and exit, and dynamic models of pricing and entry.
Business strategy
Porter, (1980). Competitive Strategy. Arguably, the most influential book in strategy. Complete manual to analyze industries and take strategic moves to build a superior position in the market. Heavily based on industrial organizational economics, particularly the structure-conduct-performance and the game-theoretic literature to competitive dynamics.
Grant, (2005). Contemporary Strategy Analysis. Mainstream graduate-level textbook in strategic analysis that has seen six revised editions, the most recent in 2007.
Grimm, , Lee, , and Smith, (2006). Strategy as Action. Insightful analysis of strategy as taking actions and reacting to competitors' actions. This applied book develops a comprehensive and useful approach to understand recent ideas on competitive dynamics in strategic management.
Dixit, and Nalebuff, (1991). Thinking Strategically. The contributions to strategy from a game theory perspective are very clearly explained in this book for a nontechnical audience. Excellent introduction to the most useful aspects of game theory.
Besanko, , Dranove, , Shanley, , and Schaefer, (2004). Economics of Strategy. Mainstream textbook to strategy from an applied microeconomics perspective.
Beath, and Katsoulacos, (1991). The Economic Theory of Product Differentiation. Detailed and well-integrated discussion of the early theoretical literature in economics about product differentiation.
Corporate strategy
Collis, and Montgomery, (1998). Corporate Strategy. Graduate-level textbook on corporate strategy from a resource-based approach, including elements of both strategy content and process.
Goold, , Campbell, , and Alexander, (1994). Corporate-level Strategy. This book describes with many useful examples how the corporate office can create (or destroy) value. Highly applied analysis of strategic management of diversified corporations.
Haspeslagh, and Jemison, (1991). Managing Acquisitions. Excellent applied analysis of how firms can create value through acquisitions.
Bamford, , Gomes-Casseres, , and Robinson, (2003). Mastering Alliance Strategy. Useful applied analysis of the entire process of alliance management.
International strategy
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Gupta, , Govindarajan, , and Wang, (2008). The Quest for Global Dominance. A state-of-the-art practical analysis of the challenges for firms to build, manage, and exploit global presence.
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Strategy and social value
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