Includes name index, subject index and company index

Includes bibliographical references and case studies

Preface -- Part 1: Strategic management inputs -- Strategic management and strategic competitiveness -- The external environment: opportunities, threats, industry competition, and competitor analysis -- The internal organization: resources, capabilities, core competencies, and competitive advantages -- Part 2: Strategic actions: strategy formulation -- Business-level strategy -- Competitive rivalry and competitive dynamics -- Corporate-level strategy -- Merger and acquisition strategies -- International strategy -- Cooperative strategy -- Part 3: Strategic actions: strategy implementation -- Corporate governance -- Organizational structure and controls -- Strategic leadership -- Strategic entrepreneurship -- Part 4: Case studies.

Strategic Management: Competitiveness and Globalization, 4e continues the authors tradition of quality and excellence in presenting how firms achieve strategic competitiveness, through a timely and clear writing style. The 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 mode in explaining how firms build a sustained competitive advantage. This text contains the concepts portion only--customized case selections are available through Custom Publishing.

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