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RR 2014/293 The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management Edited by Mie Augier and David J. Teece Palgrave Macmillan Basingstoke and New York, NY 2013- ISBN 978 1 137 00772 8 URL: www.palgraveconnect.com/esm/ Last visited May 2014, Available as a one-off purchase, with prices calculated according to the size and type of the institution
Keywords Electronic media, Encyclopedias, Strategic management
Review DOI 10.1108/RR-05-2014-0134
The editors state in the preface that they intend The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management to serve as the definitive volume for both academics and practitioners in this still emerging field. To do so, they have planned more than 700 entries that they hope will define keywords, explain "core terms and mechanisms" and establish the "intellectual foundations" of strategic management.
Many entries cover familiar topics from other management and business reference works, but they differ in how they approach coverage of the topics. For example, the Encyclopedia of Management (Hill, 2012) gives a basic introduction to what patents and trademarks are, how they have evolved historically and how the process works for businesses. The Palgrave...