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Strategic Management and Business Policy : Concepts and Cases
ISBN: 9780131494596 | 0131494597
Edition: 11thFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 1/1/2008
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For undergraduate strategy/strategic management courses. Wheelen and Hunger takes a unique approach to helping students synthesize all of the factors of the strategic process through a student friendly Strategic Management Model.
| Preface | p. xxix |
| Introduction to Strategic Management and Business Policy | p. 1 |
| Basic Concepts in Strategic Management | p. 1 |
| The Study of Strategic Management | p. 3 |
| Globalization and Electronic Commerce: Challenges to Strategic Management | p. 6 |
| Theories of Organizational Adaptation | p. 8 |
| Creating a Learning Organization | p. 9 |
| Basic Model of Strategic Management | ... MOREp. 10 |
| Initiation of Strategy: Triggering Events | p. 18 |
| Strategic Decision Making | p. 20 |
| The Strategic Audit: Aid to Strategic Decision Making | p. 23 |
| Conclusion | p. 24 |
| Strategic Audit of a Corporation | p. 26 |
| Corporate Governance | p. 34 |
| Role of the Board of Directors | p. 36 |
| The Role of Top Management | p. 48 |
| Conclusion | p. 52 |
| Ethics and Social Responsibility in Strategic Management | p. 55 |
| Social Responsibilities of Strategic Decision Makers | p. 56 |
| Ethical Decision Making | p. 61 |
| Conclusion | p. 68 |
| Part Ending Video Case: Newbury Comics, Inc. | p. 70 |
| Scanning the Environment | p. 71 |
| Environmental Scanning and Industry Analysis | p. 71 |
| Environmental Scanning | p. 73 |
| Industry Analysis: Analyzing the Task Environment | p. 82 |
| Competitive Intelligence | p. 92 |
| Forecasting | p. 95 |
| The Strategic Audit: A Checklist for Environmental Scanning | p. 97 |
| Synthesis of External Factors-EFAS | p. 97 |
| Conclusion | p. 99 |
| Competitive Analysis Techniques | p. 101 |
| Internal Scanning: Organizational Analysis | p. 104 |
| A Resource-Based Approach to Organizational Analysis | p. 106 |
| Business Models | p. 110 |
| Value-Chain Analysis | p. 111 |
| Scanning Functional Resources and Capabilities | p. 114 |
| The Strategic Audit: A Checklist for Organizational Analysis | p. 129 |
| Synthesis of Internal Factors | p. 129 |
| Conclusion | p. 131 |
| Part Ending Video Case: Newbury Comics, Inc. | p. 134 |
| Strategy Formulation | p. 137 |
| Strategy Formulation: Situation Analysis and Business Strategy | p. 137 |
| Situational Analysis: SWOT Analysis | p. 138 |
| Review of Mission and Objectives | p. 143 |
| Generating Alternative Strategies by Using a TOWS Matrix | p. 144 |
| Business Strategies | p. 145 |
| Conclusion | p. 161 |
| Strategy Formulation: Corporate Strategy | p. 163 |
| Corporate Strategy | p. 164 |
| Directional Strategy | p. 165 |
| Portfolio Analysis | p. 179 |
| Corporate Parenting | p. 183 |
| Conclusion | p. 185 |
| Strategy Formulation: Functional Strategy and Strategic Choice | p. 188 |
| Functional Strategy | p. 189 |
| The Sourcing Decision: Location of Functions | p. 198 |
| Strategies to Avoid | p. 201 |
| Strategic Choice: Selecting of the Best Strategy | p. 201 |
| Developing Policies | p. 208 |
| Conclusion | p. 209 |
| Part Ending Video Case: Newbury Comics, Inc. | p. 212 |
| Strategy Implementation and Control | p. 213 |
| Strategy Implementation: Organizing for Action | p. 213 |
| Strategy Implementation | p. 214 |
| Who Implements Strategy? | p. 215 |
| What Must Be Done? | p. 216 |
| How Is Strategy to Be Implemented? Organizing for Action | p. 219 |
| International Issues in Strategy Implementation | p. 232 |
| Conclusion | p. 236 |
| Strategy Implementation: Staffing and Directing | p. 238 |
| Staffing | p. 240 |
| Leading | p. 248 |
| Conclusion | p. 258 |
| Evaluation and Control | p. 261 |
| Evaluation and Control in Strategic Management | p. 263 |
| Measuring Performance | p. 263 |
| Strategic Information Systems | p. 278 |
| Problems in Measuring Performance | p. 279 |
| Guidelines for Proper Control | p. 282 |
| Strategic Incentive Management | p. 283 |
| Conclusion | p. 285 |
| Part Ending Video Case: Newbury Comics, Inc. | p. 288 |
| Other Strategic Issues | p. 291 |
| Strategic Issues in Managing Technology and Innovation | p. 291 |
| The Role of Management | p. 293 |
| Environmental Scanning | p. 295 |
| Strategy Formulation | p. 299 |
| Strategy Implementation | p. 305 |
| Evaluation and Control | p. 309 |
| Conclusion | p. 312 |
| Strategic Issues in Entrepreneurial Ventures and Small Businesses | p. 316 |
| Importance of Small Business and Entrepreneurial Ventures | p. 317 |
| Use of Strategic Planning and Strategic Management | p. 319 |
| Issues in Corporate Governance | p. 324 |
| Issues in Environmental Scanning and Strategy Formulation | p. 325 |
| Issues in Strategy Implementation | p. 330 |
| Issues in Evaluation and Control | p. 334 |
| Conclusion | p. 335 |
| Strategic Issues in Not-For-Profit Organizations | p. 338 |
| Why Not-For-Profit? | p. 340 |
| Importance of Revenue Source | p. 341 |
| Impact of Constraints on Strategic Management | p. 344 |
| Not-for-Profit Strategies | p. 347 |
| Conclusion | p. 350 |
| Introduction to Case Analysis | p. 353 |
| Suggestions for Case Analysis | p. 353 |
| The Case Method | p. 355 |
| Researching the Case Situation | p. 355 |
| Financial Analysis: A Place to Begin | p. 356 |
| Format for Case Analysis: The Strategic Audit | p. 361 |
| Conclusion | p. 363 |
| Resources for Case Research | p. 365 |
| Suggested Case Analysis Methodology Using the Strategic Audit | p. 368 |
| Example of a Student-Written Strategic Audit | p. 371 |
| Endnotes | p. 376 |
| Cases in Strategic Management | p. 1 |
| Corporate Governance and Ethics: Question of Executive Leadership | p. 1 |
| The Recalcitrant Director at Byte Products, Inc.: Corporate Legality Versus Corporate Responsibility | p. 3 |
| The Wallace Group | p. 1 |
| Environmental Issues: Questions of Social Responsibility and Ethics | |
| The Audit | p. 1 |
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