Synopses & Reviews
Strategic Management: Concepts captures the complexity of the current business environment and delivers the latest skills and concepts with unrivaled clarity.
The Nature of Strategic Management; The Business Vision and Mission; The External Assessment; The Internal Assessment; Strategies in Action; Strategy Analysis and Choice; Implementing Strategies: Management and Operations Issues; Implementing Strategies: Marketing, Finance/Accounting, R&D, and MIS Issues; Strategy Review, Evaluation, and Control; Business Ethics/Social Responsibility/Environmental Sustainability; Global/International Issues
For management professionals, small business owners, and others involved in business.
Synopsis
A skills-oriented, practitioner perspective on strategy, thoroughly updated with current research and concepts.
In today’s economy, gaining and sustaining a competitive advantage is harder than ever. Strategic Management: Concepts captures the complexity of the current business environment and delivers the latest skills and concepts with unrivaled clarity, helping readers develop their own cutting-edge strategy through skill-developing exercises.
The thirteenth edition explores the current global recession and shows how it has affected the business environment, providing readers with updated coverage of strategic-management concepts, theory, research, and techniques in every chapter.
Table of Contents
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