Strategic Management

Offers a strategy text that will introduce students to the field of strategic management & excite them about the dynamic nature of the business world.

PART 1: Concepts

3

CHAPTER 1: Introduction: A Model of Strategic Management, and an Overview of the Text

3

(24)

CHAPTER 2: General Managers and the Strategic Management of Business Firms

27

(28)

CHAPTER 3: An Introduction to Competitive Advantage

55

(24)

CHAPTER 4: Frameworks For the Analysis of Industry Environments

79

(31)

CHAPTER 5: A Dynamic Model of Industry Structuring

110

(26)

CHAPTER 6: Business Definition

136

(28)

CHAPTER 7: Business Strategy and Competitive Advantage

164

(29)

CHAPTER 8: Business Strategy and Competitive Advantage in Different Industry Contexts

193

(33)

CHAPTER 9: Corporate Strategy and Diversification

226

(32)

CHAPTER 10: Organizational Structure and the Implementation of Strategy

258

(29)

CHAPTER 11: Organizational Responsiveness: The Role of Board Governance and Strategic Planning

287

(26)

CHAPTER 12: The Management of Strategic Change

313

PART 2: Cases

CASE 1: The Alaskan Gold Mine, Part I

1.1

CASE 2: The Alaskan Gold Mine, Part II

2.1

CASE 3: Astral Records, Ltd., North America

3.1

CASE 4: International Colour Envelope Advisors A/S

4.1

CASE 5: Jiffy Lube International, Inc.

5.1

CASE 6: Crown Cork & Seal

6.1

CASE 7: Georgia Digitial Reproductions, Inc.

7.1

CASE 8: Iran Office Automation Company

8.1

CASE 9: Southwest Airlines

9.1

CASE 10: The Bacova Guild, Ltd.

10.1

CASE 11: Women's World Banking: The Early Years

11.1

CASE 12: Copeland Corporation/Bain & Company: The Scroll Investment Decision

12.1

CASE 13: Falls River Center, Inc.

13.1

CASE 14: National Guitar Summer Workshop, Inc.

14.1

CASE 15: Marriott Corporation

15.1

CASE 16: Hewlett-Packard (Condensed)

16.1

CASE 17: New Zealand Dairy Board

17.1

CASE 18: Disney Productions: The Walt Years

18.1

CASE 19: Amer Group, Ltd.

19.1

CASE 20: Arvin Industries, Inc.

20.1

CASE 21: Yamaha Corporation and the Electronic-Musical-Instruments Industry

21.1

CASE 22: MacGregor Golf Company

22.1

CASE 23: Grupo Bacardi de Mexico, S.A.

23.1

CASE 24: Bennett Association (A)

24.1

CASE 25: Charlottesville-Albemarle Legal Aid Society

25.1

CASE 26: Louisisana-Pacific Corporation

26.1

CASE 27: Strategic Planning at the New York Botanical Garden (A)

27.1

CASE 28: Strategic Planning at the New York Botanical Garden (B)

28.1

CASE 29: Dollar General Corporation (A) Abridged

29.1

CASE 30: Big Sky, Inc.: The Magasco Paper Mill (A)

30.1

CASE 31: The Public Communications Department at New York Telephone

31.1

CASE 32: OSIM Corporation (A)

32.1

CASE 33: Peninsular Insurance (A)

33.1

CASE 34: Dollar General Corporation (B)

34.1

CASE 35: The Walt Disney Company: The Arrival of Eisner and Wells

35.1

CASE 36: Big Sky, Inc.: The Magasco Paper Mill (B)

36.1

CASE 37: Rodale Press (A)

37.1

CASE 38: Rodale Press (B)

38.1

CREDITS

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INDEX

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