The new edition of this successful strategic management text continues its broad & balanced coverage of the field of strategy, while incorporating cutting-edge topics & issues. The authors' well-known strategic management model runs throughout the core chapters as a unifying concept. With a new experiential exercise at the end of each chapter, students have the opportunity to apply their knowledge to real-world situations. Offering 26 new cases, 16 of which are exclusive to their book, & most of which are based on companies that students will recognize, this new edition makes learning more interesting. New topics discussed include: * Hypercompetition & competitive strategy * Corporate governance in the context of ethics & social responsibility * Resource-based core & distinctive competencies * Parenting as a corporate strategy * Mass customization * Value Chain Analysis & activity based costing * Entrepreneurial Ventures * The firm as a learning organization Features * New "21st Century Global Society" & "Global Issues for the 21st Century" features highlight how international issues are & will affect strategic management. * Over 25 NEW & 16 EXCLUSIVE case studies include profiles on Microsoft, Reebok, Disney/ABC, Dell Computer, Harley-Davidson, & Vermont Teddy Bear. * New Global Perspective in every chapter integrates international issues throughout the book. * New "PASSPORT TO THE WEB" walks students through web sites associated with the text & helps students navigate the web. * New "Strategy in a Changing World" feature shows strategy at work in actual organizations. * New Web Site contains links to companies covered in the cases. * A new, state-of-the-art Instructor's Resource CD-ROM contains PowerPoint Slides, Computerized Test Bank & Instructor's Manual. Supplements Text Instructor's Resource Manual, Case Instructor's Manual, Instructor's Resource CD-ROM, Video & Web Site.
This book is designed to support and enhance both learning and teaching. An important aspect of the style adopted for this book is the use of exhibits, presenting a vast gamut of information regarding special theoretical matter.
This book on Strategic Management and Business Policy has been designed considering the problem of students in finding out an easily understandable book covering, by and large, all the relate topics.
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With new cases, vignettes, examples and statistics in the 16th Edition, you get an extraordinarily well-researched and practically crafted lesson.
Strategic Management and Business Policy: A Methodological Approach
This edition introduces a new them that runs throughout all 12 chapter: environmental sustainability.
Business Policy and Strategic Management
For students of Strategic Management and Business Policy. This book contains the latest research and examples of well-known and not-so-well known companies dealing with complicated strategic issues.
Most of the organizations have started adopting strategic management system. This book focuses on conceptual approach to the subject as well as some select case studies, which make a foundation to the knowledge of strategic management.
Business Policy 1 _ 15 2.