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Essentials of strategic management : the quest for competitive advantage / John E. Gamble, Margaret A. Peteraf, and Arthur A. Thompson, Jr.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : McGraw Hill LLC, 2024Edition: 8th editionDescription: xiii, 430 pages ; illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781266227110
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Essentials of strategic managementDDC classification:
  • 658.4012 G143e 23
LOC classification:
  • HD30.28 .G36 2024
Contents:
Part One. Concepts and techniques for crafting and executing strategy -- Section A: Introduction and overview -- Strategy, business models, and competitive advantage -- The strategy formulation, strategy execution process -- Section B. Core concepts and analytical tools -- Evaluating a company's external environment -- Evaluating a company's resources, capabilities, and competitiveness -- Section C. Crafting a strategy -- The five generic competitive strategies -- Strengthening a company's competitive position: strategic moves, timing, and scope of operations -- Strategies for competing in international markets -- Corporate strategy: diversification and the multibusiness company -- Ethics, corporate sustainability, and strategy -- Section D. Executing the strategy -- Superior strategy execution - another path to competitive advantage -- Part Two. Cases in crafting and executing strategy.
Summary: "The standout features of this edition of Essentials of Strategic Management are its concisely written and robust coverage of strategic management concepts and its compelling collection of cases. The text presents a conceptually strong treatment of strategic management principles and analytic approaches that features straight-to the-point discussions, timely examples, and a writing style that captures the interest of students. While this edition retains the 10-chapter structure of the prior edition, every chapter has been reexamined, refined, and refreshed"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes index.

Part One. Concepts and techniques for crafting and executing strategy -- Section A: Introduction and overview -- Strategy, business models, and competitive advantage -- The strategy formulation, strategy execution process -- Section B. Core concepts and analytical tools -- Evaluating a company's external environment -- Evaluating a company's resources, capabilities, and competitiveness -- Section C. Crafting a strategy -- The five generic competitive strategies -- Strengthening a company's competitive position: strategic moves, timing, and scope of operations -- Strategies for competing in international markets -- Corporate strategy: diversification and the multibusiness company -- Ethics, corporate sustainability, and strategy -- Section D. Executing the strategy -- Superior strategy execution - another path to competitive advantage -- Part Two. Cases in crafting and executing strategy.

"The standout features of this edition of Essentials of Strategic Management are its concisely written and robust coverage of strategic management concepts and its compelling collection of cases. The text presents a conceptually strong treatment of strategic management principles and analytic approaches that features straight-to the-point discussions, timely examples, and a writing style that captures the interest of students. While this edition retains the 10-chapter structure of the prior edition, every chapter has been reexamined, refined, and refreshed"-- Provided by publisher.

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