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Contents
  1. Acknowledgments

  2. Dedications

  3. Preface

  4. About the Book

  5. I. Chapter 1
    1. 1. Conclusion

    2. 2. Understanding the Strategic Management Process

    3. 3. The History of Strategic Management

    4. 4. Intended, Emergent, and Realized Strategies

    5. 5. Defining Strategic Management and Strategy

    6. 6. Mastering Strategy: Art and Science

  6. II. Chapter 2
    1. 7. Conclusion

    2. 8. Entrepreneurial Orientation

    3. 9. The CEO as Celebrity

    4. 10. Assessing Organizational Performance

    5. 11. Vision, Mission, and Goals

    6. 12. Leading Strategically

  7. III. Chapter 3
    1. 13. The Relationship between an Organization and Its Environment

    2. 14. Evaluating the External Environment

    3. 15. Evaluating the General Environment

    4. 16. Evaluating the Industry

    5. 17. Mapping Strategic Groups

    6. 18. Conclusion

  8. IV. Chapter 4
    1. 19. Managing Firm Resources

    2. 20. Conclusion

    3. 21. SWOT Analysis

    4. 22. Resource-Based Theory

    5. 23. Intellectual Property

    6. 24. Value Chain

    7. 25. Beyond Resource-Based Theory: Other Views on Firm Performance

  9. V. Chapter 5
    1. 26. Conclusion

    2. 27. Stuck in the Middle

    3. 28. Best-Cost Strategy

    4. 29. Focused Cost Leadership and Focused Differentiation

    5. 30. Differentiation

    6. 31. Cost Leadership

    7. 32. Understanding Business-Level Strategy through “Generic Strategies”

    8. 33. Selecting Business-Level Strategies

  10. VI. Chapter 6
    1. 34. Conclusion

    2. 35. Making Cooperative Moves

    3. 36. Responding to Competitors’ Moves

    4. 37. Making Competitive Moves

    5. 38. Supporting the Business-Level Strategy: Competitive and Cooperative Moves

  11. VII. Chapter 7
    1. 39. Conclusion

    2. 40. Options for Competing in International Markets

    3. 41. Types of International Strategies

    4. 42. Drivers of Success and Failure When Competing in International Markets

    5. 43. Advantages and Disadvantages of Competing in International Markets

    6. 44. Competing in International Markets

  12. VIII. Chapter 8
    1. 45. Vertical Integration Strategies

    2. 46. Concentration Strategies

    3. 47. Selecting Corporate-Level Strategies

    4. 48. Diversification Strategies

    5. 49. Strategies for Getting Smaller

    6. 50. Portfolio Planning and Corporate-Level Strategy

    7. 51. Conclusion

  13. IX. Chapter 9
    1. 52. Conclusion

    2. 53. Legal Forms of Business

    3. 54. Creating Organizational Control Systems

    4. 55. Creating an Organizational Structure

    5. 56. The Basic Building Blocks of Organizational Structure

    6. 57. Executing Strategy through Organizational Design

  14. X. Chapter 10
    1. 58. Conclusion

    2. 59. Understanding Thought Patterns: A Key to Corporate Leadership?

    3. 60. Corporate Ethics and Social Responsibility

    4. 61. Boards of Directors

    5. 62. Leading an Ethical Organization: Corporate Governance, Corporate Ethics, and Social Responsibility

  15. About the Authors

  16. Appendix 1: Mastering Strategic Management Powerpoints

Mastering Strategic Management- 1st Canadian Edition

Appendix 1: Mastering Strategic Management Powerpoints

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10 – Part 1

Chapter 10 – Part 2

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