Mastering Strategic Management

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Teaching the strategic management course can be a challenge for many professors. In most business schools, strategic management is a “capstone” course that requires students to draw on insights from various functional courses they have completed (such as marketing, finance, and accounting) in order to understand how top executives make the strategic decisions that drive whether organizations succeed or fail.

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Business, Management
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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Licensing
  6. 1: Mastering Strategy - Art and Science
  7. 1.1: Prelude to Mastering Strategy
  8. 1.2: Defining Strategic Management and Strategy
  9. 1.3: Intended, Emergent, and Realized Strategies
  10. 1.4: The History of Strategic Management
  11. 1.5: Understanding the Strategic Management Process
  12. 1.6: Conclusion
  13. 2: Leading Strategically
  14. 2.1: Leading Strategically
  15. 2.2: Vision, Mission, and Goals
  16. 2.3: Assessing Organizational Performance
  17. 2.4: The CEO as Celebrity
  18. 2.5: Entrepreneurial Orientation
  19. 2.6: Conclusion
  20. 3: Evaluating the External Environment
  21. 3.1: Evaluating the External Environment
  22. 3.2: The Relationship between an Organization and Its Environment
  23. 3.3: Evaluating the General Environment
  24. 3.4: Evaluating the Industry
  25. 3.5: Mapping Strategic Groups
  26. 3.6: Conclusion
  27. 4: Managing Firm Resources
  28. 4.1: Managing Firm Resources
  29. 4.2: Resource-Based Theory
  30. 4.3: Intellectual Property
  31. 4.4: Value Chain
  32. 4.5: Beyond Resource-Based Theory- Other Views on Firm Performance
  33. 4.6: SWOT Analysis
  34. 4.7: Conclusion
  35. 5: Selecting Business-Level Strategies
  36. 5.1: Selecting Business-Level Strategies
  37. 5.2: Understanding Business-Level Strategy through “Generic Strategies”
  38. 5.3: Cost Leadership
  39. 5.4: Differentiation
  40. 5.5: Focused Cost Leadership and Focused Differentiation
  41. 5.6: Best-Cost Strategy
  42. 5.7: Stuck in the Middle
  43. 5.8: Conclusion
  44. 6: Supporting the Business-Level Strategy - Competitive and Cooperative Moves
  45. 6.1: Supporting the Business-Level Strategy- Competitive and Cooperative Moves
  46. 6.2: Making Competitive Moves
  47. 6.3: Responding to Competitors’ Moves
  48. 6.4: Making Cooperative Moves
  49. 6.5: Conclusion
  50. 7: Competing in International Markets
  51. 7.1: Competing in International Markets
  52. 7.2: Advantages and Disadvantages of Competing in International Markets
  53. 7.3: Drivers of Success and Failure When Competing in International Markets
  54. 7.4: Types of International Strategies
  55. 7.5: Options for Competing in International Markets
  56. 7.6: Conclusion
  57. 8: Selecting Corporate-Level Strategies
  58. 8.1: Selecting Corporate-Level Strategies
  59. 8.2: Concentration Strategies
  60. 8.3: Vertical Integration Strategies
  61. 8.4: Diversification Strategies
  62. 8.5: Strategies for Getting Smaller
  63. 8.6: Portfolio Planning and Corporate-Level Strategy
  64. 8.7: Conclusion
  65. 9: Executing Strategy through Organizational Design
  66. 9.1: Executing Strategy through Organizational Design
  67. 9.2: The Basic Building Blocks of Organizational Structure
  68. 9.3: Creating an Organizational Structure
  69. 9.4: Creating Organizational Control Systems
  70. 9.5: Legal Forms of Business
  71. 9.6: Conclusion
  72. 10: Leading an Ethical Organization- Corporate Governance, Corporate Ethics, and Social Responsibility
  73. 10.1: Leading an Ethical Organization- Corporate Governance, Corporate Ethics, and Social Responsibility
  74. 10.2: Boards of Directors
  75. 10.3: Corporate Ethics and Social Responsibility
  76. 10.4: Understanding Thought Patterns- A Key to Corporate Leadership?
  77. 10.5: Conclusion
  78. Back Matter
  79. Index
  80. Glossary
  81. Detailed Licensing