The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management - (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management has been written by an international team of leading academics, practitioners and rising stars and contains almost 550 individually commissioned entries. It is the first resource of its kind to pull together such a comprehensive overview of the field and covers both the theoretical and more empirically/practitioner oriented side of the discipline.

About the Author

Mie Augier is an associate professor at the Naval Postgraduate School and Research Associate at Stanford. She works on research on organizational behaviour, culture, economics and security, strategy, and net assessment. She has published more than 70 articles in journals and books and co-edited several special issues of journals and books. Her most recent book is The Roots, Rituals and Rhetorics of Change (With James March, Stanford University Press, 2011). Her current research interests include: the history and future of net assessment; strategic management; the links between economics and security; the development of an interdisciplinary framework for strategic thinking & new security economics.

David J. Teece is the Thomas W. Tusher Professor in Global Business and Director of the Centre for Global Strategy and Governance at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania. Teece is a leading researcher in the fields of corporate strategy and innovation. In 2002 he was listed among the "Top 50 Business Intellectuals" by Accenture.

Teece is an authority on various subjects including the theory of the firm and strategic management, the economics of technological change, knowledge management, technology transfer, and antitrust economics and innovation. He has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania, has held teaching and research positions at Stanford University and Oxford University, and has also received three honorary doctorates. Teece has testified before Congress on regulatory policy and competition policy, is author of over 200 books and articles, and is the editor of Industrial & Corporate Change (Oxford University Press). According to Science Watch, he is the lead author on the most cited article in economics and business worldwide, 1995-2005

Teece's work and ideas have been central to the development of the field of strategic management.

Associate Editors:

Jay B. Barney, Ohio State University and The University of Utah, USA
Alfonso Gambardella, Università Bocconi, Italy
Constance E. Helfat, Dartmouth College, USA
Thorbjørn Knudsen, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Dan Lovallo, University of Sydney, Australia
Will Mitchell, University of Toronto, Canada
Gary P. Pisano, Harvard University, USA
Christos N. Pitelis, University of Cambridge, UK
J. Miguel Villas-Boas, University of California, Berkeley, USA