Featured Books

Jay Barney

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.