Strategic management
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Strategic management
(McGraw-Hill series in management)
McGraw-Hill, c1993
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This work, complete with cases, features coverage of core concepts in strategic management. It offers fully integrated treatment of business ethics, small businesses and entrepreneurships, as well as full-chapter coverage of global strategic management. Theory and concepts are brought to life through numerous current examples drawn from a wide variety of organizations. The book's collection of 36 cases includes a mix of original author-written cases and additional classic and contemporary cases based on a variety of industries and organization types. Drawing on a broad range of academic research, it stresses strategic management as a set of skills and a way of thinking that must be developed by all managers.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Strategic analysis: a mandate for strategic management
- the external environment - identifying opportunities and threats
- assesssing the interal environment - determining strengths and weaknesses. Part 2 Stratgy formulation: strategic management at the business level - managing for competitive advantage
- strategic management at the functional level - managing for customer value
- strategic management at the corporate level - diversification for stockholder value
- strategic management at the international level - managing for global success. Part 3 Strategy implementation: translating strategy into action and achieving integration
- strategy implementation - the role of organizational structure
- implementing strategy - ensuring strategic control
- leadership, culture and ethics. Part 4 Case analysis: analyzing strategic situations and cases. Cases: small business cases - United Products Inc, Brithinee Electric Inc, Wall Drug Store, Brookout Technology Inc, the battle of the Superpremium ice creams
- industry specific cases - the US athletic shoe industry, the PC software connection, the soft drink industry, the US pharmaceutical industry, the photocopier industry
- cases emphasizing strategy formulation
- cases emphasizing implementation issues.
by "Nielsen BookData"