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The Strategic Management of Organisations is intended to help students understand the theory of strategic management and competitive advantage and, most importantly, apply that theory in practice. Adrian Haberberg and Alison Rieple have succeeded in writing a clear and accessible introduction to this complex subject matter.The book blends traditional approaches with the more recently developed resource-based view of the firm and provides up-to-date theoretical insights in such areas as increasing returns, organisational learning, corporate parenting and electronic commerce. It takes a balanced view of the strategy process giving equal importance to insights from economics and to considerations of politics, power, human emotion and fallibility. Rather than viewing strategic management in isolation the book continually makes reference to related disciplines such as economics, finance, marketing and organisational theory.Key features of the text include: ? Plenty of case material to demonstrate how theories are applied, including 1 page real-life applications, four cases that run through the book, end of chapter cases for seminar work and longer case studies for deeper study and asses