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Crafting & Executing Strategy: The Quest for Competitive Advantage: Concepts and Cases

Crafting & Executing Strategy: The Quest for Competitive Advantage: Concepts and Cases Author(s): Arthur Thompson, John Gamble, A. J. Strickland III, Margaret Peteraf

Difference between 20th and 19th editions
Side by side comparison of table of contents helps to figure out the most significant changes.

Key differences between 20th and 19th editions

  • Time lapse between current and previous editions: 2 years (2015 vs 2013).
  • For the first time the book was published in 1994 under the title "Crafting and Implementing a Strategy: What Every Manager Needs to Know ".
  • 20th edition keeps the 12-chapter structure of the 19th edition.
  • New topics of the value net framework.
  • Extensive Case Update - the 31-case collection in the Twentieth Edition is fulfilled with interesting companies, including:
    • Whole Foods Market, a foods supermarket chain specializing in organic food
    • Papa John's Internation, one of the largest pizza chains, focusing on a high-quality products
    • Lagunitas Brewing Company
    • Cooper Tire & Rubber, an American company that specializes in the manufacture and sales of replacement automobile and truck tires.
    • Panera Bread, a chain of bakery-café fast casual restaurants
    • Sony Music Entertainmen
    • Vera Bradley, a company that specializes in colorful, patterned luggage, handbags, and accessories.
    • Nucor Corporation, one of the largest manufacturers of steel and steel products
    • Tata Motors, a large Indian automobile manufacturer
    • Africa's success of Wal-Mart
    • Southwest Airlines, a leading U.S. low-cost airline carrier
    • Amazon's innovative ways of big data resources use
  • Many fresh Illustration Capsules:
    • 1.1 Starbucks's strategy in the coffeehouse industry
    • 2.2 Patagonia's core purpose and values (an American outdoor clothing and gear company)
    • 4.1 American Giant: using the value chain to compare costs of producing a hoodie sweatshirt: U.S. versus Asian production
    • 4.2 Delivered-cost benchmarking
    • 6.4 Unique business model of Kaiser Permanente, a largest vertically integrated health care delivery system in the U.S.
    • 7.2 Successful differentiation-based focused strategies of Four Seasons Hotels
    • 8.1 Microsoft's 2011 acquisition of Skype
    • 9.1 IKEA's approach to dealing with global supplier standards
    • 9.4 TOMS’s environmental sustainability approach
    • 10.1 Deloitte’s approach to developing employee talent.
    • 10.2 Zara, a fast fashion retailer
    • 12.2 America Latina Logistica approaches
20th Edition of
Crafting & Executing Strategy: The Quest for Competitive Advantage: Concepts and Cases
eBook, 896 pages
eBook ISBN: 9781259303579
Published by: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, January 09, 2015
Hardcover, 896 pages
ISBN-10: 0077720598
ISBN-13: 9780077720599
Published by: McGraw-Hill Education, January 20, 2015
with Business Strategy Game & GLO-BUS
Hardcover
ISBN-10: 1259629732
ISBN-13: 9781259629730
Published by: McGraw-Hill Education, November 17, 2014
Unbound
Loose Leaf
ISBN-10: 1259303632
ISBN-13: 9781259303630
Published by: McGraw-Hill Education, January 22, 2015
19th Edition of
Crafting & Executing Strategy: Concepts and Cases, The Quest for Competitive Advantage
Hardcover, 888 pages
ISBN-10: 0078029503
ISBN-13: 9780078029509
Published by: McGraw-Hill/Irwin, January 17, 2013
with Connect access card
Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0077802004
ISBN-13: 9780077802004
Published by: McGraw-Hill/Irwin, February 28, 2013
Loose Leaf
ISBN-10: 0077537106
ISBN-13: 9780077537104
Published by: McGraw-Hill/Irwin, January 17, 2013
18th Edition of
Crafting & Executing Strategy: Concepts and Cases, The Quest for Competitive Advantage
Hardcover, 944 pages
ISBN-10: 0078112729
ISBN-13: 9780078112720
Published by: McGraw-Hill/Irwin, January 27, 2011
with BSG/Glo-Bus
Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0077903609
ISBN-13: 9780077903602
Published by: McGraw-Hill/Irwin, September 23, 2010
Loose Leaf
ISBN-10: 0077462874
ISBN-13: 9780077462871
Published by: McGraw-Hill/Irwin, January 31, 2011
International Edition
Paperback, 1184 pages
ISBN-10: 0071317007
ISBN-13: 9780071317009
Published by: McGraw Hill Higher Education, August 01, 2011



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