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Publisher Information
About the Authors
Acknowledgments
Dedications
Preface
1. Chapter 1
2. 1.1 Mastering Strategy: Art and Science
3. 1.2 Defining Strategic Management and Strategy
4. 1.3 Intended, Emergent, and Realized Strategies
5. 1.4 The History of Strategic Management
6. 1.5 Understanding the Strategic Management Process
7. 1.6 Conclusion
8. 2.1 Leading Strategically
9. 2.2 Vision, Mission, and Goals
10. 2.3 Assessing Organizational Performance
11. 2.4 The CEO as Celebrity
12. 2.6 Conclusion
13. 2.5 Entrepreneurial Orientation
14. 3.1 Evaluating the External Environment
15. 3.2 The Relationship between an Organization and Its Environment
16. 3.3 Evaluating the General Environment
17. 3.4 Evaluating the Industry
18. 3.5 Mapping Strategic Groups
19. 3.6 Conclusion
20. 4.2 Resource-Based Theory
21. 4.1 Managing Firm Resources
22. 4.4 Value Chain
23. 4.3 Intellectual Property
24. 4.7 Conclusion
25. 4.5 Beyond Resource-Based Theory: Other Views on Firm Performance
26. 4.6 SWOT Analysis
27. 5.8 Conclusion
28. 5.7 Stuck in the Middle
29. 5.6 Best-Cost Strategy
30. 5.5 Focused Cost Leadership and Focused Differentiation
31. 5.4 Differentiation
32. 5.3 Cost Leadership
33. 5.2 Understanding Business-Level Strategy through “Generic Strategies”
34. 5.1 Selecting Business-Level Strategies
35. 6.1 Supporting the Business-Level Strategy: Competitive and Cooperative Moves
36. 6.2 Making Competitive Moves
37. 6.3 Responding to Competitors’ Moves
38. 6.4 Making Cooperative Moves
39. 6.5 Conclusion
40. 7.1 Competing in International Markets
41. 7.3 Drivers of Success and Failure When Competing in International Markets
42. 7.4 Types of International Strategies
43. 7.5 Options for Competing in International Markets
44. 7.6 Conclusion
45. 7.2 Advantages and Disadvantages of Competing in International Markets
46. 8.1 Selecting Corporate-Level Strategies
47. 8.2 Concentration Strategies
48. 8.3 Vertical Integration Strategies
49. 8.4 Diversification Strategies
50. 8.5 Strategies for Getting Smaller
51. 8.6 Portfolio Planning and Corporate-Level Strategy
52. 8.7 Conclusion
53. 9.1 Executing Strategy through Organizational Design
54. 9.2 The Basic Building Blocks of Organizational Structure
55. 9.3 Creating an Organizational Structure
56. 9.4 Creating Organizational Control Systems
57. 9.5 Legal Forms of Business
58. 9.6 Conclusion
59. 10.4 Understanding Thought Patterns: A Key to Corporate Leadership?
60. 10.5 Conclusion
61. 10.1 Leading an Ethical Organization: Corporate Governance, Corporate Ethics, and Social Responsibility
62. 10.2 Boards of Directors
63. 10.3 Corporate Ethics and Social Responsibility
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