Published Books

The Secret of Culture Change: How to Build Authentic Stories that Transform Your Organization. Oakland: Berrett-Koehler, 2023, with Manoel Amorim and Carlos Júlio.

Organizational Economics: Toward a New Paradigm for Understanding and Studying Organizations. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1986, with William G. Ouchi.

The Management of Organizations: Strategy, Structure, and Behavior. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1992, with Ricky Griffin.

Gaining and Sustaining Competitive Advantage, 4th edition, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2010 (first edition published in 1997). (7741 citations by 2022—Google Scholar)
-Translated into Japanese by Masa Okada in three volumes (The Tools of Strategic Analysis, Business Strategies, Corporate Strategies), 2003.
-Translated into Chinese, 2004. (Now in a 2nd Chinese edition)
-Translated into Italian, 2006 by Valentina Della Corte and Mauro Sciarelli.

Strategic Management and Competitive Advantage. Currently in 6th edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2014, with William Hesterly. (Text only and Text and Cases versions, first edition published in 2005). (2252 citations by 2022—Google Scholar)
-Translated into Chinese, 2008, by Shujun Zhang (Chosen by Chinese Minister of Education as Preferred Strategic Management Textbook).
-Translated into Korean, by Hyung-deok Shin
-Translated into Japanese, by Masa Okada (forthcoming)

Resource-based Theory: Creating and Sustaining Competitive Advantage. London: Oxford University Press, 2007, with Delwyn Clark. (2261 citations by 2021—Google Scholar) (2575 citaions by 2022—Google Scholar)
-Translated into Chinese, 2013

What I Didn’t Learn in Business School: Making Strategy Work in the Real World. Cambridge: Harvard Business Review Press, 2010, with Trish Clifford.
-Translated into Korean
-Translated into Hungarian
-Translated into Chinese
-Translated into Polish

The Cambridge Handbook of Stakeholder Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge. Edited By Jeff Harrison, Jay Barney, Ed Freeman, and Robert Phillips. 2019.