The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management

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...