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About the new 7th Edition

7th Edition now available in a combined text & cases version
as well as text only!

In this most accessible strategy text, Robert M. Grant combines clarity of exposition with concentration on the fundamentals of value creation and an emphasis on practicality. The seventh edition, a greater focus on strategy implementation reflects the needs of firms to reconcile scale economies with entrepreneurial flexibility, globalization with local responsiveness and innovation with cost efficiency,.

Promising new approaches to strategy analysis featured include the role of complementarity, the use of real options to analyze flexibility, the nature of complexity and the potential for self-organization, and the role of legitimacy and its relevance to corporate social responsibility. 

The 7th Edition features:

• Case material substantially enhanced including new cases form a variety of industries.
• An improved focus on strategy implementation, including additional content.
• Several of the longer chapters shortened or split into two to further improve readability.
• More use of Strategy Capsules in every chapter that give more detailed examples of each strategy being implemented by a real company and the impacts the strategy has on their operation.
• Text Only and NEW Text & Cases version available in the 7th Edition