Strategic Management Competitiveness and Globalization, Cases with InfoTrac College Edition

by Hitt, Michael A.; Ireland, R. Duane; Hoskisson, Robert E.

• ISBN13: 9780324048926
• ISBN10: 0324048920
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-07-13
• Publisher: South-Western College Pub

Summary

With 30 all-new cases and thorough guides to reading each of them, STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT AND CASES is the best casebook of its kind on the market. With STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT AND CASES, you'll not only learn from the biggest stars of the corporate world, you'll also discover key strategies that smaller companies have used to succeed. And because this edition comes loaded up with study tools, this management casebook will be your go-to resource during test time as well.

Table of Contents

Introduction Preparing an Effective Case Analysis	1	(18)
ABB in China: 1998	19	(16)
Suzanne Uhlen
Michael Lubatkin
Adidas	35	(15)
Giana Boissonnas
Ursula Hilliard
Jacques Horovitz
Banking on the Internet: The Advance Bank in Germany	50	(18)
Tawfik Jelassi
Albrecht Enders
Alcoholes de Centroamerica, S.A. de C.V.	68	(15)
Richard L. Priem
K. Matthew Gilley
Amazon.com: Expanding Beyond Books	83	(21)
Suresh Kotha
Beano's Ice Cream Shop	104	(12)
Todd A. Finkle
Ben & Jerry's Homemade Inc.: ``Yo! I'm Your CEO!''	116	(14)
Katherine A. Auer
Alan N. Hoffman
Benecol: Raisio's Global Nutriceutical	130	(17)
Michael H. Moffett
Stacey Wolff Howard
The Boeing Company: The Merger with McDonnell Douglas	147	(17)
Isaac Cohen
BP-Mobil and the Restructuring of the Oil Refining Industry	164	(25)
Karel Cool
Jeffrey Reuer
Ian Montgomery
Francesca Gee
British Airways: Latin America	189	(11)
David T. A. Wesley
Henry W. Lane
Circus Circus Enterprises, Inc., 1998	200	(12)
John K. Ross, III
Mike Keeffe
Bill Middlebrook
Cisco Systems, Inc.	212	(12)
Michael I. Eizenberg
Donna M. Gallo
Irene Hagenbuch
Alan N. Hoffman
Cognex Corporation: ``Work Hard, Play Hard''	224	(10)
Marilyn T. Lucas
Alan N. Hoffman
Compaq in Crisis	234	(11)
Adrian Elton
Enersis: Global Strategy in the Electric Power Sector	245	(16)
Robert Grosse
Carlos Fuentes
Internal Entrepreneurship at Ericsson: Finding Opportunities and Mobilizing Talent	261	(9)
Ulf Mimer
Richard M. McErlean, Jr.
Els van Weering
E*Trade, Charles Schwab and Yahoo!: The Transformation of On-line Brokerage	270	(18)
Nassim Dagher
Soumitra Dutta
Arnoud De Meyer
FEMSA Meets the 21st Century	288	(32)
Felipe Gonzalez
Gonzalez
Fleming Companies, Inc.: Year 2000 (``Y2K'') Compliance: The Communications Debacle	320	(13)
Laura Callahan
Chris Huston
John Millar
R.Glenn Richey
Gillette and the Men's Wet-Shaving Market	333	(21)
Lew G. Brown
Jennifer M. Hart
Kiwi Travel International Airlines Ltd.	354	(16)
Jared W. Paisley
KUVO Radio: Marketing an Oasis	370	(12)
Joan with
Christina Montez
LEGO	382	(27)
Idunn Eir Jonsdottir
Pedro Nueno
The Lincoln Electric Company, 1996	409	(23)
Arthur Sharplin
John A. Seeger
The Loewen Group	432	(17)
Ariff Kachra
Mary Crossan
Madd Snowboards--1999	449	(10)
Melissa A. Schilling
Amy Eng
Mayra Velasquez
Mendoccino Brewing Company, Inc.--1996	459	(18)
Armand Gilinsky
Nucor Corp. and the U.S. Steel Industry	477	(31)
Brian K. Boyd
Steve Gove
Odwalla, Inc., and the E. Coli Outbreak	508	(6)
Anne T. Lawrence
Outback Goes International	514	(23)
Marilyn L. Taylor
George M. Puia
Krishnan Ramaya
Madelyn Gengelbach
Philip Morris	537	(16)
Rhonda Fronk
Bill Pilgrim
Bill Prosser
Regan Urquhart
Monte Wiltse
Southwest Airlines, 1996	553	(16)
Andrew Inkpen
Valerie DeGroot
Starbucks	569	(17)
Ariff Kachra
Mary Crossan
The Stone Group's Diversification Strategy: ``Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place''	586	(14)
Pascale M. Brunet
Sun Microsystems, Inc.	600	(12)
Irene Hagenbuch
Alan N. Hoffman
The Merger of U.S. Bancorp and Piper Jaffray Companies	612	(17)
Dawn Hodges
Ernest E. Scarbrough
John R. Montanari
The Wall Street Journal: Print versus Interactive	629	(10)
Amy Hillman
Walt Disney Co.	639	(14)
Anthony Claro
Michelle Hill
Eric Maxwell
Porter
Angela West
Western Pacific Airlines	653
Steve Cove