Contents:

Preface

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Part 1: Overview of Strategic Management

Chapter 1: The Nature of Strategic Management

Part 2: Strategy Formulation

Chapter 2: The Business Vision and Mission

Chapter 3: The External Assessment

Chapter 4: The Internal Assessment

Chapter 5: Strategies in Action

Chapter 6: Strategy Analysis and Choice

Part 3: Strategy Implementation

Chapter 7: Implementing Strategies: Management and Operations Issues

Chapter 8: Implementing Strategies: Marketing, Finance/Accounting, R&D, and MIS Issues

Part 4: Strategy Evaluation

Chapter 9: Strategy Review, Evaluation, and Control

Part 5: Key Strategic-Management Topics

Chapter 10: Business Ethics/Social Responsibility/Environmental Sustainability

Chapter 11: Global/International Issues

Part 6: Strategic-Management Case Analysis

How to Prepare and Present a Case Analysis

Name Index

Subject Index

Description:

The new edition of this widely-read book provides an effective approach for developing a clear strategic plan in the new world order. Changes made in this edition are aimed at illustrating the effect of new business concepts and techniques on strategic management theory and practice. Due to the magnitude of recent changes affecting companies, cultures and countries, every page of this edition has been updated. A few new features of this edition are given below.

• Brand new Cohesion Case on Walt Disney company.
• Brand new or improved Assurance of Learning Exercises at the end of all chapters to apply chapter concepts. The exercises prepare students for strategic management case analysis.
• Brand new examples throughout the book.
• All new current readings at the end of each chapter; new research and theories of seminal thinkers in strategy development, such as Arnoff, Chandler, Porter, Hamel, Prahald, Mintzberg and Barney.
• Twenty-seven brand new cases grouped by industry.