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