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Acknowledgments
Dedications
Preface
About the Book
1. Conclusion
2. Understanding the Strategic Management Process
3. The History of Strategic Management
4. Intended, Emergent, and Realized Strategies
5. Defining Strategic Management and Strategy
6. Mastering Strategy: Art and Science
7. Conclusion
8. Entrepreneurial Orientation
9. The CEO as Celebrity
10. Assessing Organizational Performance
11. Vision, Mission, and Goals
12. Leading Strategically
13. The Relationship between an Organization and Its Environment
14. Evaluating the External Environment
15. Evaluating the General Environment
16. Evaluating the Industry
17. Mapping Strategic Groups
18. Conclusion
19. Managing Firm Resources
20. Conclusion
21. SWOT Analysis
22. Resource-Based Theory
23. Intellectual Property
24. Value Chain
25. Beyond Resource-Based Theory: Other Views on Firm Performance
26. Conclusion
27. Stuck in the Middle
28. Best-Cost Strategy
29. Focused Cost Leadership and Focused Differentiation
30. Differentiation
31. Cost Leadership
32. Understanding Business-Level Strategy through “Generic Strategies”
33. Selecting Business-Level Strategies
34. Conclusion
35. Making Cooperative Moves
36. Responding to Competitors’ Moves
37. Making Competitive Moves
38. Supporting the Business-Level Strategy: Competitive and Cooperative Moves
39. Conclusion
40. Options for Competing in International Markets
41. Types of International Strategies
42. Drivers of Success and Failure When Competing in International Markets
43. Advantages and Disadvantages of Competing in International Markets
44. Competing in International Markets
45. Vertical Integration Strategies
46. Concentration Strategies
47. Selecting Corporate-Level Strategies
48. Diversification Strategies
49. Strategies for Getting Smaller
50. Portfolio Planning and Corporate-Level Strategy
51. Conclusion
52. Conclusion
53. Legal Forms of Business
54. Creating Organizational Control Systems
55. Creating an Organizational Structure
56. The Basic Building Blocks of Organizational Structure
57. Executing Strategy through Organizational Design
58. Conclusion
59. Understanding Thought Patterns: A Key to Corporate Leadership?
60. Corporate Ethics and Social Responsibility
61. Boards of Directors
62. Leading an Ethical Organization: Corporate Governance, Corporate Ethics, and Social Responsibility
About the Authors
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Chapter 9
Chapter 10 – Part 1
Chapter 10 – Part 2
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