Strategic Management; Competitiveness and Globalization Concepts and Cases

by Michael A. Hitt; Robert E. Hoskisson; itt

• ISBN13: 9780538881821
• ISBN10: 0538881828
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-07-29
• Publisher: South-Western College Pub

Summary

A thorough revision, this market-leading text explains how firms achieve strategic competitiveness, emphasizing integration of resources and capabilities to obtain a sustained competitive advantage. This text uniquely focuses the strategic management process on the outcome and integrates the resource-based view of the firm with the more traditional I/O model. Emphasizing global issues, competitive forces, and the implementation of a strategic plan/process, the hot topics of corporate governance, TQM, core competencies, strategic alliances, and corporate entrepreneurship are also covered.

Table of Contents

PART I STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT INPUTS	2	(122)
CHAPTER 1 Strategic Management and Strategic Competitiveness	2	(40)
CHAPTER 2 The External Environment: Opportunities, Threats, Industry Competition, and Competitor Analysis	42	(40)
CHAPTER 3 The Internal Environment: Resources, Capabilities, and Core Competencies	82	(42)
PART II STRATEGIC ACTIONS: STRATEGY FORMULATION	124	(226)
CHAPTER 4 Business-Level Strategy	124	(36)
CHAPTER 5 Competitive Dynamics	160	(42)
CHAPTER 6 Corporate-Level Strategy	202	(34)
CHAPTER 7 Acquisition and Restructuring Strategies	236	(34)
CHAPTER 8 International Strategy	270	(40)
CHAPTER 9 Cooperative Strategy	310	(40)
PART III STRATEGIC ACTIONS: STRATEGY IMPLEMENTATION	350
CHAPTER 10 Corporate Governance	350	(40)
CHAPTER 11 Organizational Structure and Controls	390	(44)
CHAPTER 12 Strategic Leadership	434	(38)
CHAPTER 13 Corporate Entrepreneurship and Innovation	472
PART IV CASES