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Essentials of Strategic Management Concise
ISBN: 9780618605361 | 0618605363
Edition: 1stFormat: Package
Publisher: THOMPSON LEARNING
Pub. Date: 1/1/2008
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Essentials of Strategic Management is a brief version of the authors' market-leading text, Strategic Management: An Integrated Approach, 7/e. The Essentials text follows the same framework as the larger book, helping students to identify and focus on core concepts in the field in a more concise, streamlined format. Based on real-world practices and current thinking, the text's presentation of strategic management features an increased emphasis on the "business model" concept as a way of framing the issues of competitive advantage. Cutting-edge research, new strategic management theory, and a hands-on approach allow students to explore major topics in management, including corporate performance, governance, strategic leadership, technology, and business ethics. In addition, a high quality/variety case program examines small, medium, and large companies, both domestic and international.
| Note: Each chapter begins with an Overview and concludes with a Summary of Chapter, Discussion Questions, Practicing Strategic Management, and Test Prepper | |
| Introduction to Strategic Management | |
| The Strategy-Making Process | |
| Competitive Advantage and Superior Performance | |
| Running Case: Dell''s Superior Performance Strategic Managers | |
| The Strategy-Making Process | |
| Strategy as an Emerge... MORE | |
| Strategy in Action: A Strategic Shift at Microsoft Strategic | |
| Planning in Practice Strategic | |
| Decision Making Strategic Leadership | |
| Closing Case: Shattered Dreams: Level 3 Communications | |
| Stakeholders, the Mission, Governance, and Business Ethics Stakeholders | |
| The Mission Statement Corporate | |
| Governance and Strategy | |
| Strategy in Action: The Agency Problem at Tyco | |
| Ethics and Strategy | |
| Running Case: Dell''s Code of Ethics | |
| Closing Case: The Collapse of Enron | |
| The Nature of Competitive Advantage | |
| External Analysis: The Identification of Opportunities and Threats | |
| Analyzing Industry Structure | |
| Strategy in Action: Circumventing Barriers to Entry into the Soft Drink Industry | |
| Strategic Groups Within Industries | |
| Running Case: Dell: Changing Rivalry in the PC Industry | |
| Industry Life Cycle Analysis | |
| The Macroenvironment | |
| Closing Case: Plane Wreck: The Airline Industry in 2001-2005 | |
| Building Competitive | |
| Advantage Competitive | |
| Advantage: Value Creation, Low Cost, and Differentiation | |
| Strategy in Action: Competitive Advantage in the U.S. Retail Industry | |
| The Generic Building Blocks of Competitive Advantage | |
| The Value Chain Functional Strategies and the Generic Building | |
| Blocks of Competitive Advantage | |
| Running Case: Dell''s Utilization of the Internet Distinctive | |
| Competencies and Competitive Advantage | |
| Closing Case: Google | |
| Building and Sustaining Long-Run Competitive Advantage | |
| Business-Level Strategy and Competitive Positioning | |
| The Nature of Competitive Positioning | |
| Choosing a Business-Level Strategy | |
| Running Case: Dell''s Business-Level Strategies | |
| Competitive Positioning in Different Industry Environments | |
| Strategy in Action: How to Make Money in the Vacuum Tube Business | |
| Closing Case: Liz Claiborne, Inc. | |
| Strategy in the Global Environment | |
| The Global Environment | |
| Increasing Profitability Through Global Expansion | |
| Cost Pressures and Pressures for Local Responsiveness | |
| Strategy in Action: MTV Goes Global, with a Local Accent | |
| Choosing a Global Strategy | |
| Running Case: Dell''s Global Strategy Choice of Entry Mode | |
| Closing Case: Planet Starbucks | |
| Corporate-Level Strategy and Long-Run Profitability | |
| Concentration on a Single Industry | |
| Running Case: Beating Dell: Why HP Wanted to Acquire Compaq | |
| Vertical Integration Entering New Industries Through Diversification | |
| Strategy in Action: Diversification at 3M: Leveraging Technology | |
| Restructuring and Downsizing | |
| Closing Case: Thermo Electron | |
| Strategy Implementation | |
| Strategic Change: Implementing Strategies to Build and Develop a Company | |
| Strategic Change Analyzing a Company as a Portfolio of Core Competencies | |
| Implementing Strategy Through Internal New Ventures | |
| Implementing Strategy Through Acquisitions | |
| Strategy in Action: AOL and Time Warner | |
| Implementing Strategy Through Strategic Alliances | |
| Running Case: Dell and Lexmark''s Strategic Alliance | |
| Closing Case: eBay Acquires Skype | |
| Implementing Strategy Through Organizational Design | |
| The Role of Organizational Structure | |
| Vertical Differentiation | |
| Horizontal Differentiation | |
| Strategy in Action: How to Flatten and Decentralize Structure | |
| Integration and Organizational Control | |
| The Nature of Organizational Control | |
| Closing Case: Chrysler''s Cross-Functional Product Teams | |
| Cases in Strategic Management | |
| The Music Industry in the Age of the Internet: From Napster to Apple''s iPod | |
| Staples | |
| Toyota: Origins, Evolution, and Current Prospects | |
| Satellite Radio: XM Versus Sirius | |
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